January

Jason Grimes

1931 Plymouth modified roadster 

'35 Chevy truck grill 

'34 Chevy truck dash 

Chevy 350ci motor 350 trans  

16&17" Ford wire wheels

Firestone tires 

1940 Ford front suspension

 '68 Pontiac rear end   

Restaurant chairs for seats 

Build time 11 days!!

February

Ben "Funlucky" Smith

Year: 1928

Make: Buick Limo, Chopped 4", Channeled 4"

Grill: 32' Ford

Color: Red Oxide

Engine: 350 SBC

Tranny:  350 Turbo

Intake/Carbs: Eldebrock/Rochester Tripower

Ignition: Pertronix

Rear End: Narrowed 9" Ford 4.11 Gear/ 4-Link

Frontend: 32' Ford 6"drop

Brakes: Disc front/ Drum rear

Tires: BFG 165/15 and 255/70/15

Seats: Chopped Baja's

Upholstery: Brick and Curtains

Dash: stock stretched/Dolphin gauges inserted in brass

Steering: Flaming River

Taillights: 39 Ford Devil Heads

March

Year:  1929

Make:  Ford

Custom body mods: Started life as a coupe

Color:  Black primer

Painter: Body Krylon Special by Robert (Lou) Lewis

            Pinstripes/lettering Litl Bill

            Dash striping VonDust (Dustin Cooper)

Engine: 355 Chevy double hump Vet heads (Machine Work by Quillen Automotive)

Trans:  350 Turbo

Exhaust: Cherry Bombs

Intake:  Fenton TriPower

Ignition: Stock GM distributor with pytronics HEI pick up

Read End: 57 Chevy 323 posi

Suspension (front/rear):

            Front – stock 40 Ford

            Rear – 4-link coil over

Brakes: Front 40 Ford

            Rear '57 Chevy

            Mustang 2 master cylinder

Wheels/size: Front 14x5

                        Rear 15x7

Tires/size: Front Coker Wide white walls 5.60 x 14

            Rear Coker Wide white walls L18x15

            Interior mods/upholstery:            41 Chevy speedo

                                                            Crystal doorknob shifter

                                                            Horse blanket carpet

Club affiliation: none

Special Thanks to: John Perkins Jr., John Mandabach, Tom Culbertson, Gary Brown, Bill Carter, Litl Bill, VonDust (Dustin Cooper), Danny Quillen

This car was the first Hot Rod that I rode in as a child. It was originally built in the late 60’s as a highboy by my dad and his best buddy. The car got away from the family in the mid 80’s, but I was able to buy it back in the late 90’s from my best buddy who had found it. The car was completely stripped down to the body and rolling chassis when we found it. I rebuilt it the first time in 2004, but was not satisfied with the look of the car. So, I completely tore it back down and threw the frame away. We built a new frame and rebuilt the car as it is today. 

April

Shawn Blanford

This is a '31 Ford, with a ''37 Chevy front end, a '51 Ford dash, and a  '40 Ford rear end.  It's just what I set out to do with it, because it's different from any others.    We put a small block Chevy in it, and 3 deuces.

May

June

This is a '48 Ford pickup truck, with the original frame and front suspension.  It has wire wheels from the 1930's, and a '37 International grill with a 360 AMC engine.  It took a year to build, and me and some of my friends gathered up parts from here and there.  I enjoyed building this truck, and I met a lot of interesting people.  Just hunting for the parts was a lot of fun.

July

I have a 1933 Plymouth Coupe that I bought when I was 14 years

old.  It was my first car.  I worked all summer mowing grass and doing odd

jobs, saving up my money.  I found the car in the local paper for sale for

$900.  When my Dad and I went to look at the car, Dad did not approve of

the car and said it was junk, and I would never get something like that

together and make it run.  I worked on my Dad all evening that night, and

borrowed the remaining money that I needed from my Grandpa to buy the car.

Later that night, Dad softened up and said that I could buy it.  And the rest is history.  I have owned the car for 18 years. Everything on the car is new or been rebuilt by me in my garage.  It has a 440 big block Mopar motor, with 727 tranny.  Mustang 2 front suspension and 1969 Charger rear.  The car took approx. 3 years to build.

August

Shawn Blanford

F/MP 1950 Ford "The Outer Limits"

"The Outer Limits" raced at Vineland and Atco Raceways in New Jersey in the early 1960's.  It had 14 F/MP Class winds before it was retired to an airplane hanger for 40 years.

The original racecar has been restored to a Full House, as raced running condition.

Engine Specs:

Block - bored to 3.38"

Merc. Crank - stroked to 4 1/8 for 295 Cu. In.

Jahn's Racing Pistons

Offenhouser Heads

Offenhouser Intake

Isky 88 street and strip camshaft

Three Stromberg 97 Carbs

Mallory dual point dist.

Judson Coil

Shaffer clutch

Lasalle 3-speed transmission with a Hurst Mystery Shifter

It was found on disassembly of the engine that the full floating wrist pins in the Jahn's Racing Pistons had scored the cylinder walls.  They had left out the buttons on the wrist pins.  So, we had to replace the block.  We also replaced the water pumps because they had cut every other Fin off the impellers to make more horsepower.

The drivers of "The Outer Limits" were:

B. Kerby

R. Cathers

Sponsor: Botttjer Performance Systems

September

Jerry "Porkchop" Walker

This 1933 Ford Five Window Coupe has a long history as a hot rod.  Originally a channeled flathead powered East Coast car, it sat neglected in a North Carolina barn for years.  Current owner Jerry "Porkchop" Walker acquired the car and breathed new life into the old rod.  Now powered by a hopped up 235 six-cylinder Chevrolet engine, it looks as though it drove right off 1940's-era dry lakebed racing.  And drive it does - Porkchop has racked up thousands of miles on his hot rod, including a trip to the Bonneville Salt Flats from his home in Ohio.  The car also serves as a calling card for his shop, Walker's Landspeed & Custom Works.  (http://www.sinisterhotrods.com) With no signs of stopping, it is sure that this hot rod will be around for many years to come...

October

Bruce Bowe

It is a 1930 model a Ford two-door sedan. 1957 Chrysler hemi w/ fire truck intake and a pair of Carter deuces and homespun Zoomies.  The car is 100% homebuilt. The frame was built by me in my shop and stretched three inches to fit the hemi in front of the cowl. The transmission is GM 350 turbo, w/hot heads adapter. The steering is '40 Ford with a homebuilt column, a '61 Olds wheel, and a dash I fabricated from sheet metal. The interior is covered with authentic coffee bags from South America. They still had beans in them when we split them open.

The top has been chopped 4 inches and the body is channeled over the rails 3. The front axle is a 1936 Ford w/1941 split bones. Wheels up front are 1940 16x5up with 560-16 Firestone bias-ply wide whites, rear are 15x8 with radar 10.0-15 white wall slicks. The paint is Lowes rattle-can Willow Satin.

November

Cecil Shrout

ANATOMY OF A HOT ROD

'32 body, stock hinges

original '32 frame

'39 steering column

'40 steering wheel cut down

windshield 2” chop – not enough - took ¾” more - laid it back

40 spindles

original '32 dropped and drilled, chromed front axle

'29 Model A front crossmember

'30 Ford Model A rear crossmember and buggy spring

original '32 split wishbones in front

original '35 split wishbones in rear

Quick change – ‘51 Halibrand off Bonneville Salt Flats. Magnesium. Original Culver City rear cover.  '46 truck axle

Tubes. Machined to accept resplined Ford 9” axles with late model brakes. Currently running 3:48 / 4:11 gears

'58 Buick Drums / brakes with Wilson Nostalgia finned backing plates

early style covered shocks

'52 Ford truck front shock mounts

custom headers with dump tube ran between rails. HPC coated '46 Gennie style wheels 16” '46 plain hubcaps

Firestone biased tires WWW 6.00 x 16” front.  7.50 x 16” rear

Original 32 grill shell and insert. Shaved Louvered cowl vent and rear trunk lid. Old style louvers

Rear trunk lid has 14 red marker lights between louver rows third brake light

'34 Ford coupe trunk lid handle   

'32 original headlights converted to stepped Halogen

'50’s beehive oil filter (does little - looks good)

'50 Pontiac taillights with blue dots

custom rear push bar for Lakes ‘effect’

S10 (85) 5 speed with cornhusker conversion kit for flathead Overdrive effect.

Vega steer box (71)

'49 Ford Flathead stroker engine. Relieved .Bored .060. 52 Merc 4” crank. Max 1 Isky cam,  Johnson adjustable lifters.  Mellings oil pump, Scheifer aluminum flywheel. Truck water pumps, Stromberg 97’s Vertex magneto . Balanced all the way through to the clutch.

'57 12-volt generator – smaller pulley

'37 truck fan assembly (6 bladed) converted to later mount

Original Stewart Warner dash insert from  '57 Chris Craft boat

Stewart Warner Wings gauges with curved glass

Dupont Hot Hues ‘Hot Rod Black’ paint

'50’s Mack Red truck paint on wheels, grill insert

Lokar Swan shifter with lighted, flamed shift ball

Marine Vinyl interior.  2” rolls/pleats. '57 Corvette Red and White – done in 50”s style/stitching

Custom made, removable low profile top with white ragtop upholstery Removable rear window and side curtains

Marvel Oil can radiator overflow

Rear '58 Buick brake drums over Ford 9” brake drums

40 accelerator linkage reversed

Stainless steel spoon for accelerator pedal (liberated from Jan Kuntz’s kitchen drawer)

Still to do – polish heads, beehive filter, radiator tubes and intake, paint frame

New parts for safety and reliability – '71 Vega steering box, Ford 9” rear brakes, T5 S10 transmission.

My goal was to build a mid-fifties era car that I would have built back then.  The looks are reflections of what appeals to and stirs passion in me for hot rods.  If someone else is moved by that same emotion then I have accomplished what I set out to do. I am still not done with it as indicated above, but I just cannot stop enjoying it to break it down! Someday perhaps I will, and then again perhaps I won’t.  The car runs out very well, even with the old style suspension. The 5^th gear runs the car down the road at 65mph at just about 1800 rpm!   Flattie runs a cool 165 degrees on the road or in an hour’s traffic…It’s a really quick winder and a lot of fun to drive.  No muffler system gives it that hot rod rumble of days gone by.  The car is like the owner – a bit grumpy, lumpy, squeaky, and leaky!   

Special thanks to: My son Zach (my inspiration and partner) along with:

  Bill Kuntz – frame/ chassis setup, top frame

  Ron House – paint & body massaging

  Rex Jackson – carburetion/timing

  Dave Kemp – interior and ragtop

  Clint Centers – flathead builder

  Randy Ryall – old style louvers

  Bob Lathery – pinstriping

  Tony Poulter – Stainless steel custom gas tank

  Jeff Smith – polishing

  Jere Jobe – Stromberg '97 rebuilder  

  Bob Bennett – wheel and grill insert painting

  Zach Shrout – cleaning, prep, grunt work, dad’s mentor

  Mike Lowhorn – paint wheels

   Also thanks to:

  Jim Tower, Ron Cole, Billy Kuntz, John Walden, Chris Logue                                             

December

Ernest Barrett

The car is a 1948 Desoto coupe. It has a 360 Dodge engine. The motor has an aftermarket intake, four-barrel carb, mild cam and blockhugger headers. The body has minor de-chroming. It has a custom interior, handmade package tray, and 1200-watt stereo system. The front suspension is 1978 Impala, nine inch Ford rear-end, it has Diamondback wide whitewall tires on steel wheels. I have put almost 50,000 miles on it since I bought it, around 1999.