There are no rules to hot rodding. Often said, not so often executed, at least not so much today and that is what makes cars like this Crosely so refreshing.
Styled after 60s era competition cars this car was built with the attention to detail of a show car, but the attitude of a proper race car.
A homage of sorts this Crosley is now very little Crosley at all.
Everything but the body was either discarded, or left where it was found, and the two door shell has been painted bright red with period correct gold leaf lettering added.
The body now sits atop a custom rail frame that extends way out in front of the car to a fitting straight axle set up.
Several feet behind the tank, stuffed mostly in the Crosley engine bay sits a 454, 14.5:1 compression, motor that’s been ported, polished, cammed and fit with a Hilborn fuel injection system.
Since the front wheels are no longer anywhere near the wheel wells the headers dump straight out from there, where they no doubt provide quite a soundtrack when the car is running.
Though pretty minimalistic the interior is fairly era correct. Fiberglass buckets are used and “speed holes” can be found in a few of the components mimicking what racers still do today to save weight wherever possible.
The pedals and shifter have been custom made from aluminum and the floors and transmission tunnel are done beautifully in sheet metal. Interestingly enough there’s also a small stereo and 8 track player.
Not sure you’d be able to hear the tunes while the car is running but let’s not dwell on that.
Capping off the interior is a suitable red flake steering wheel.
The exaggerated rake of the car is partially to do with how the body was mounted, and partially to do with the 15×10 Radar wheels out back and skinny magnesium wheels up front that, of course, have no brakes to be seen behind them.
Crosley dragseters might not be a new creation, with Google revealing a couple over the years, but this one just might be the cleanest built and it has to be to justify it’s current near 60 thousand us price tag. A bit (ok a lot) rich for my blood this is one car that I’ll only be able to look at from afar, or watch walk-arounds about in videos like the one below.
Watching the Barrett Jackson auction has become a bit of a tradition around the Thomas homestead. I obviously enjoy it because of the cars, my wife likes the actual auction process and my son at this point seems a little indifferent, but I’m sure he’ll come around.
This year I ‘only’ watched about two hours worth so yesterday I spent some time combing through the listings to see what I missed, and more of what I liked.
During so this Theme Tuesday of my favorites just sort of fell together.
1976 BRADLEY GT
An extremely 70s creation Bradley GT’S were fiberglass bodies plunked on top of Beetle pans. Kind of like a sportier more road worthy dune buggy.
I’ve never seen one in person but their design is reminiscent of carnival ride cars. You know the ones painted bright colors with heavy flake that drive in circles, if not this is what I mean.
Go figure this one is heavily flaked.
Apparently the car was built in ’76 then stored after 6,000 miles making it a pretty rad rare specimen with an 8 track ready to crank out tunes.
1970 GMC Crew Cab
This truck is a monster. So much so that looking at it is almost down right comical.
A fully trimmed (air conditioning and all) factory crew cab, rather than a conversion, this truck was owned by a family in Montana before it was restored and given a few upgrades including a suspension lift.
I like the unusual fact that all four doors are identical, making the cab look pretty distinct, and making it even longer overall.
This truck would be an awesome road trip vehicle, though I imagine the gas bill might rival plane tickets to wherever you’d be traveling to.
Shaking Herbie
Like many of you I’m sure, I loved the original Herbie The Love Bug movies.
As a kid anything that centered around cars, robots, bikes, or skateboards drew me in and a quirky beetle that raced kept me glued to the TV for hours.
This is one of the cars used after Herbie walked the plank in Herbie Goes Bananas. The big disk was used for the shaking effect seen on-screen when he comes back to life below.
1967 Dodge Dart
Mopar’s might not get a ton of love around here compared to Chevy’s or Fords but that doesn’t mean I am not a fan, and among the shiny paint and heavy chrome at the auction (see sparkly Bradley above) this Dart stood out as completely sinister being completely drenched in black.
My kind of resto mod, this Dart now has a 360 big block, big brakes, and upgraded suspension so it can be driven thusly:
1950 Divco
Milk trucks are cool, lowered 302 powered milk trucks are even cooler.
This one has some pretty slick paint to boot and sits with a nice looking rake.
’64 Corvette
In my freelance life I’ve written a few articles about Corvettes and I quickly learned that ‘Vette owners are extremely passionate about their vehicles.
Some like them oem and others, well, others like them stretched 12″ over all (7″ up front 5″ in the rear) and with a blown, nitrous fed, big block under the hood.
An original Corvette, albeit heavily modified, this street/strip styled Corvette was an ISCA show car that won best motor at the Grand National Roadster show.
’57 Lincoln Continental Coupe
Man I love a good Kustom and this ’57 Continental is a great kustom. The works have been thrown at this one, chopped top, frenched headlights, lowered quarter panels and an immaculate one-off leather interior.
It’s also bagged on Daytons and a former Rod and Custom cover car.
Perfect.
1997 Monte Carlo
I actually saw this car go across the block live and was extremely curious/confused by it. Another one-off to add to the list this Dale Earnhardt edition concept car was paraded around the show circuit before the 2000 model year release of the car.
Wider and more aggressive than the production release this particular car was built on a Grand Prix chassis. The confusing part is though it looks fine it was sold with a scrap title and can’t be registered. The announcers said it’s because it lacks certain safety features road worthy cars require.
Sounds like a prime candidate for a RWD converted track car to me. A very expensive one no doubt, but a ‘would be cool’ one none the less.
1937 Ford Custom Coupe
The first thing I thought when I saw this car on the Barrett Jackson website was damn that car looks familiar. It turns out I actually wasn’t thinking of the car that was for sale, but another one of the similar design here in Ontario.
Both seem to have been built by Wild Rides & Fabrication, and the one at auction was 350 powered on a custom frame, with bags and a Ford 9″ rear.
Nice to see a build from Ontario roll through autction, and maybe I’ll have to checkout Wild Rides in person.
The Alumatub
The Alumatub is another car I watched go across the screen live, featured on Discovery Channel’s American Hot Rod this hand-built and nearly entirely all aluminum car stands in a league of its own.
Fittingly powered by an aluminum 350 this car lives up to its name by using literally aluminum everywhere possible and by covering none of it up.
1978 Porsche 911
This Slant nose leapt out to me for one reason, Simmons Racing Wheels. You just don’t see a lot of those wheels outside of Australia (or at least I don’t) so seeing them on what appeared to be an otherwise factory –though fully loaded– Porsche is pretty cool.
This car screams mid 80s excess and that’s not a bad thing at all.
1953 Cab Over/1930 Ford
This Ford duo was posted everywhere after it’s SEMA debut in 2015 and both the car and the truck are arguably perfect in every way.
Patina, style, stance, it’s a full pull you’d be hard pressed to find someone who wasn’t impressed by this combo.
The two sold together for 125k which really isn’t all that bad of a price considering it’s two, presumably completely finished, cars.
1937 Custom Coupe
This Chevy might not be to all of your style, and that’s fine but to me it just screams late 90s clean street rod.
Big and littles, plenty of rake, super polished engine bay and billet steering wheel it’s really a matter piece if you’re into this style.
Looking at the awesome auction photos I can’t help but wonder if the car left some marks of its own upon leaving?
1939 Cheroley C1500 – “Brass Munky”
Not just a great Beasties song, the Brass Munky is a ridiculously well-built ’39 Chevy out of Eldred Hot Rod Shop.
Built with traditional styling cues, and just enough modern influences, according to the description on Barrett Jackson this was constructed with money is no object ethos.
The chassis is custom, the body has been channeled, and the interior, well the interior is a work of art plain and simple.
I’d really, really, enjoy seeing Hot Rods built to this level and I really, really, need to go to the Grand National Roadster show where I’m lead to believe these are common place.
Stabil ’71 Camaro
This ’71 is the only car that appeared at Scottsdale I had actually seen in person. Built for Sta-bil on the show “Car Fix” I found myself really captivated by the paint at SEMA in 2013.
Pumped up with a subtle widened fenders the car is now powered by an LS3 and backed by a Viper 6-speed transmission.
Baer brakes and Detroit speed suspension round out the build.
1970 Plymouth Cuda “Torc”
Diesel motor swaps have become a little more common place over the last few years –especially in hot rods– but in muscle cars they are still a little a-typical and that’s what makes “Torc” so interesting.
Visually it’s a great looking car. The exterior has been worked over and smoothed out and the car obviously sits much lower to the ground than it did when it left the factory.
The interior is super modern (some might argue too modern) with a completely fabricated dash featuring digital components. Under the hood however is this car’s crowning achievement.
A compound turbo Cummins diesel sits under hood, that for good measure also includes a shot of nitrous.
What cars did you like from the auction? 15 of 1500 is a small subset so I know I missed a few of your favourites! You can see the entire listing of Scottsdale 2017 cars here.
So here we are, the first Project Why Wait Update for 2017, and while it might be light on the fabrication side its significant forward progress in the journey towards a completed truck.
Picking up where we left off last, Blair and I sorted out the front shock mounts which was the last outstanding addition to the chassis before the truck could be blown apart and shipped off to Stripping Technologies in Cambridge.
Before the chassis was loaded into a Uhaul for sandblasting, POR-15 coating, and finally a shot of color the cab, front end and bed were moved into storage.
Along with the chassis went the rear end, brake calipers, engine mounts, and a few other odds and sods that needed powder coating.
In the meantime, since there’s no indoor space available at Taylor’d Customs for the winter, I transformed my garage into a usable space so that progress could continue once the chassis was ready for its return trip.
Since moving last year the garage has on and off been capable of holding one car, but more often than not its been a dumping ground for materials required for various home renovation projects.
However delaying the project six months or more due to some junk wasn’t an option, so a few dump runs, along with a bit of strategic ‘push this shit to the side’, and I’ve manged to clear out adequate space to build the chassis.
I also scored a free work bench from a neighbour a few doors down that, cut down and combined with a few left over items from our old kitchen, made the space even more usable.
It’s not the largest space, nor is it heated, but it’s covered, clean, and has nearly all the tools I need. I’m looking to buy the last outstanding pieces of equipment and some better lighting and maybe a heater over the next few months as well.
Moving the chassis literally right outside my front door means I can also work on the truck several times a week versus once or twice a month. This means faster progress (bank account dependent of course) and more updates here.
Win, win.
With the work space sorted out the next order of business was ordering new front end components. The stuff on the truck was fine for mock ups but really rough overall and instead of taking the time to clean it and see what, if anything, was salvageable I’ve opted to bin it all and start new.
Big thanks to Andy McJannett and Mike Bennet at Performance Improvments for turning my (often incorrect) list of parts numbers into the usable pile you see below.
There’s a lot of OEM parts in the photo above, which isn’t the most exciting stuff to read about I’ll admit, but I am going to break down what I bought and why in the hopes that it will help someone down the line like previous build threads helped me.
The first group of parts is lower control arm bushings, lower ball joints, and tie rod and tie rod adjusters from Moog. If you’ve got a problem yo Moog will solve it with their Problem Solver series of components. Available pretty well everywhere for not much more than most parts shop house brands it didn’t make much sense for me not to go Moog.
Also seen in the photo above are Direct Energy sway bar, and sway bar end links. These were a recommendation from Andy at Performance Improvements and again for a few bucks more they should far outlast their generic brand counterparts.
The next motley crew of parts is a bit more assorted, on the left there are spindles from Belltech (who is apparently part of the same family of parts as KW suspension), in the middle are tubular control arms from Allstar Performance and playing the background is a trio of parts from Proforged including a center-link, idler arm and ‘super travel’ upper ball joints.
This was one of the first Proforged orders Performance Improvements had made and we were all very impressed with not only the quality of products but their packaging as well.
The matte finish red and black boxes look pretty slick and modern, but that would be all for naught if the product inside was sub par.
That is, thankfully, not the case as every item was e-coated black and etched with Proforged branding. While these products might not be manufactured in North America it’s clear that Proforged didn’t just slap a sticker on generic off shore components.
In addition to being over built (SAE1045 forged housings, 4140 studs, and sturdy boots) the Super Travel upper ball joints are designed to sit on an angle that works far better than oem spec replacements for lowered applications.
Since I plan to drive this truck as low as possible I didn’t want to prematurely wear out ball joints, and these seem to be the joints of choice for lowered, slammed, and bagged s-10/G-Body owners.
The drop spindles (re-painted black in the above picture) are for a 98+ Blazer and are direct replacements for the ones pictured below.
While there was actually nothing wrong with the drop spindles above, which are for sale, I chose to upgrade to the Blazer set up for dual piston brake calipers, larger pads and thicker, larger diameter rotors.
The Blazer parts also make it reasonably affordable to upgrade to Corvette calipers down the line should I want to put down a ton of power.
Additionally the Blazer spindle uses a more modern hub configuration which I again used Moog, via Performance Improvments, to source.
On the topic of brakes I’ve gone with Msport rotors and pads front and rear.
Another recommendation from the guys at PI these Canadian made rotors are cross drilled, slotted, and coated to endure winter weather this truck will never see.
Overkill? Perhaps but they were competitively priced and didn’t require any shipping from across the border which really helps my wallet.
Finally to touch on the tubular control arms I purchased, these were not explicitly needed a simple bushing replacement on the ones I had would have worked, but once I tried to free the bushings from their rusty home I decided there had to be a better way.
It was actually Targa Truck‘s Mark Bovey who suggested I look at Allstar Performance and these circle track upper control arms fit the bill to a tee. Mind boggingly cheap I was able to make up a lot of the money I splurged on the ball joints and the like with these control arms.
I’ll have to be more mindful to grease them every oil change but that’s hardly the end of the world considering their cost and how much better they look when compared to the stock stamped steel versions.
Looking for something to do while the chassis is out I tossed the steering linkage together quickly because I would eventually have to do it anyway.
Then I moved on to cleaning up my steering box.
I’ve decided that all chassis components (within reason) will be black and with that in mind a filthy, rusty, steering box wouldn’t do so after a lot of wire brushing and a healthy dose of brake cleaner I hit it with some caliper paint I had kicking around.
This is the same coating I used on the drop spindles as well, and for a brush on application I couldn’t be happier with the finish.
That bit of refinishing brings us to the end of another update, but the next one shouldn’t be too far off, and should feature a better than new looking chassis and associated components.
From there it’s time for me to pick up the tools again and make the chassis a roller before it reunites with the cab. There’s also likely to be a motor build tossed into the mix as well! Stay tuned and thanks for your interest in Project Why Wait!
As of this week Ford reveled their 2018 version of the iconic Mustang. While not a huge departure from the previous model it is receiving a bit of criticism both for its looks and available options which have dropped the previously criticized v6 from the lineup in favor of the boosted four-cylinder Ecotec.
However no matter what Ford designers and engineers intend to do with the Mustang from today and into the future they are never going to receive the levels of criticism the builder of this Mustang no doubt received the instant these photos originally hit the internet.
Custom built, if it wasn’t for the unmolested roof line and door scoops I probably wouldn’t be able to tell what the base of this vehicle was.
Fiberglass and body filler, in extremely large amounts, look to be the materials of choice used in this cars creation with copious amounts of chicken wire thrown in for good measure, and probably holding some of that fiberglass together.
In these photos it looks like the car was sitting awhile, likely abounded after the builder moved on to another project after realizing just how deep they got into this one with no finish line in sight.
Or maybe it was a shop project for a customer who simply ran out of money.
Either way in the photos above the car is seen gutted interior (presumably because race car) with a fuel cell where the spare tire was (again because race car) looking quite sorry for itself.
No amount of googling could turn up where this car came from, or where it went, but perhaps that’s for the best… some things were just never meant to be and I think this project was one of those.
The past month or so Rukus Motorsports has been running a Facebook advertising campaign that has thrust their rear wheel drive, drag prepped, seventh generation Accord into my timeline roughly eight hundred and twelve times week.
I’ve finally caved and decided to post that car here along with a whole pile of other awesome Honda Accords from previous event coverage and the internet.
It’s been a few years since the last Accord Theme Tuesday so things were overdue anyway.
I really, really wish I took more photos of this car when i saw it in 2012, I don’t believe I have seen it sinceSame generation done a completely different style, from the first Northern ShowdownI am pretty sure, but not positive, that this Accord has gone to the scrap yard in the sky, you never know with KJohn thoughSo rare to see these in Canada with rear quarters still hanging in thereTidy looking sixth gene shot by MB Fotografi at Canibeat’s first class fitmentHonda guys will geek over this CD6 SIRI do believe this is the only one of its kind (RHD authentic SIR) in Canada
Personally I prefer these wheels to the ones aboveLove this, simple and tastefullAn Accord trying to blend in at Liberty VIP’s Black 3Gran Tourismo comes to Importfest every year with some of the more extreme cars of the showThis Accord was, to their standards, fairly tameI just now noticed this car is on a ramp in the rear, weirdThere is indeed an Accord in this picture from the pop up Vossen meet in Toronto in 2015Eighth generation tucking a ton of wheel in the questionable Cayuga parking lotChopshop is working on the owner of this car’s new car which isn’t an accord but should be in a similar vein to thisImportfest built this car for the 2016 Canadian International Autoshow, wonder what they will be bringing out at this years showPasmagML24, and 20HZ Audio put this car together for the 2016 Canadian International Autoshow as wellMobbin hard on VS-XXsSweet wagon from a Super Street feature, absolutely love the color choiceHad to post at least one car from Japan, but it didn’t have to be typical 🙂Nice looking car from a fairly old Stance Works featureAnd to close things out the aforementioned, big turbo, b series, rear wheel drive Accord built by Rukus MotorsportsHopefully see this car at Motorama in a few months
There’s lots of talk about the demise of web forums, and though I am still a big fan of them for the information they provide and archive, I don’t find myself actively participating on nearly as many as I used to.
My daily routine used to involve a few in rotation, a couple of car and a couple BMX, and usually there was some cross over between the two as each hobby lends itself to the other.
Last night I decided to log in to Bikeguide and click around, as BG used to be a pretty good source of content in the “Automotive Hotness” threads. Those threads seem to have ceased to exist but in their place is a Post Your Own Car thread which is where the Skyline and Silvia below were found.
Rear wheel drive Nissans seem pretty popular among the BMX crowd with a number of riders both pro and otherwise using them to compete in events (again both pro and otherwise).
I don’t think Chubbs slides Silvia his around but Tcbmx. certainly does.
No real specs on either because that’s not really what the thread is about, but, both worth a share don’t you think?
I don’t think there’s ever been a vehicle submitted more for WTF Friday than the “Logan Dream Ryder”. I’ve seen plenty of custom third generation Camaros in my years on this earth but this one really takes the cake.
Built by Bill Logan, the Dream Ryder is an ’84 convertible that has had its exterior completely transformed with fiberglass from front to back and top to bottom.
The entire thing took 13 years to build, but he mentions in the video below that he drove it throughout the process to make sure that it was functional while the panels were being built.
He chose a convertible as his base because he wanted a custom roof, and since convertible models were designed for use with the top down, he was free to do whatever he wanted up top without risking the structural integrity of the car.
Bill seems to be a bit a lot of a free-thinker stating that life to him is a dream, within a dream, within a dream and the only reality is us, with the Dream Ryder being symbolic of life in this physical dimension.
I don’t know what any of that means, but he says that he got a lot of the inspiration for the design from animals. As such the front end is supposed to be an animal face with fangs and a tongue hanging out.
The rear he says is reminiscent of a cat ready to pounce, and there are also birds like the above worked into the front and rear windshield frames.
The animal influence continues inside where the seats and dash are covered in various faux furs.
I will say the body work looks pretty well done considering, and it seems fairly symmetrical which is no small feat for someone to do when designing their own widebody panels. Especially ones as bulbous as these.
Bill says that he actually has the molds for the entire car if someone wanted to make another one or mass produce them, I however feel pretty confident that there is not a large market for Dream Ryders. But people did replicate the kit from Corvette Summer so you never know.
Late 2016 Filip Malbaša sent me an email that inside included a few of the digital renders he does under the name 02turbo and asked what I thought of his work.
After opening a few of the attachments I quickly realized that I was already a fan of his work, having previously seen his Ford truck render based on Whips & Chocolate photo.
The twin turbo, Hoosier tire equipped, shark mouth livery wearing final product has been floating around both Facebook and Instagram the past few years as a beautiful ‘what if’ take on the classic F-100.
Further examining his work I noticed that Filip is a big fan of blending several different modification styles into one source rather than playing it safe. After all this is the digital domain so why not get a little wild?
Take his Tesla S render for example the diffuser is from a Mclaren P1 and the wheels come from an RWB Porsche. The wide body is of Filip’s own creation and in his mind the car is now powered by a supercharged LS1.
Speaking of RWB style Porsche influences this 911 that Filip did for an Autemo competition takes the bumper half-cut that is somewhat commonly used on rear bumpers, and applies it to the front to give both the oil cooler and intercooler a direct path to cool air.
I’m sure there would be more than a few Porsche purists up in arms if this car ever existed in the real word.
The first generation Viper GTS, the predecessor to this model, is actually one of my favorite vehicles and Filip’s version features flares, monster side pipes and what look to be Enkei RSO5RR wheels.
At first glance this car screams ZN6 (FRS/BRZ) but it’s actually a Supra with swapped headlights. The quad turbo 2JZ looks to be taken from this s14 and would make this car a screamer if it were real.
Filip says he left the body unpainted and wheels mis-matched to indicate that it’s a drift car rather than a hard parker.
This Mercedes C63 amg render is one of Filip’s favorites and employs a lot of the same things the cars above do, namely the diffuser and turbo fans, but sneaking in there is also a subtle fender vent that almost goes unnoticed at first glance.
He’s also made the car a 3 door (or 2 door hatch if you’d rather) which, for the non MB fans reading, doesn’t exist in the real world.
Volvo 142s are a car I don’t see enough of, period and this re-imagination of a Stanceworks featured car with Hemi power, makes me really wish I could fix that.
This is an earlier swing at Scandinavian bricks. It’s interesting how well LED tails would work on a car that came out literally decades before the first LED tail was ever used on a production car.
The quarter panel vents make me wonder what Filip had in mind for power, rear engine perhaps?
If you were curious if Filip is capable of working without a computer the answer would be yes, and if you’re wondering if he can tackle more traditional styling the answer is yes again, as is evident by this hand drawn piece from 2014.
He’s also completely capable of putting cars aside and letting his mind wander.
Ending this week’s showcase of Filip’s work is his take on the Honda City Turbo. 15″ Turbofans, SSRs in the rear and Toyo R888s would put this car right in step with what people are doing today, and inside he’s put an OMP seat and Takata harness. Power Filip would like to see come from an F20 drive line which would make this a rear wheel drive hot hatch.
Hope you enjoyed this different Theme Tuesday and I encourage you to check out Filip on Behance as well as Facebook and Instagram.
He’s been kind enough to offer whipping up an Stance Is Everything specific render so we should see that in a few weeks!
In my 2016 wrap up I mentioned that moving East of Toronto put a number of new events in my reach and the Autofest Nationals is on the larger scale of those events.
A twenty-three year old classic car event held at Lakeview park in Oshawa the Autofest Nationals is open to all makes manufactured before 1986.
I’ve peppered a few of these photos throughout Facebook and instagram, and even padded a few editorials with them, but for the most part the lion’s share has been trapped inside a draft post.
With January being one of the hardest months content wise I’ve decided to put a few words around these images and unearth the coverage so to speak
For my first Autofest Nationals I went with Ash in tow and to be honest as soon as he saw the neighboring park my minutes were numbered, but we did circle the grounds for about two hours taking in the variety of different vehicles.
If memory serves the weather was calling for rain that day as well, but as it became clear it wasn’t going to rain more and more vehicles started to arrive.
The variety at the Autofest Nationals was pretty good and should you be a classic car fan I don’t think you’d be disappointed going to the show either Saturday or Sunday.
Ford, Chevy, Lifted, Lowered, stock numbers matching, or heavily modified there was a bit of something for everyone.
What I always find interesting to do at a show this large is try and place the year that some of the builds were finished.
Paint colors, wheel choices, and windshield banners can be incredibly telling when it comes to dating a car and it’s always fun to see vehicles that remind me of sitting down in front of the couch watching The Nashville Network.
I loved this High Sierra for example, sure we could split hairs about whether this is dated or era correct but it was clean as a whistle either way, no doubt from years of careful storage and upkeep.
Another car that I’m sure is kept under a cover quite religiously is this Mercury Cougar. I’m actually struggling to think if I’ve ever posted another Cougar to the site and if I have I’m pretty sure it wasn’t a sixth generation.
Furthermore I can guarantee it wasn’t a supercharged 302 sixth gen! How crazy is that?
The twin Turbo Dart got some love in the Mobile Photo Dump Theme Tuesday as I’ve seen it at Shake Rabble and Roll Cruise Ins a couple times.
This car just look sinister at every angle including the side view which, if looking at it, doesn’t convince you stance is everything I don’t know what will.
The Lead Kings Canada has a few cars at the show as well, one day I’ll have to feature at least one of the builds out of this Canadian club because they are all awesome.
Classic car owners are never afraid to show their personality in their builds, other people’s opinions be dammed, and this tall can gauge pod is pretty neat. I imagine more than a few of those cans were drunk during the build.
Matching trailers are not exclusive to the classic community but I do see more of them here than anywhere else.
While I was at the show Blair made the mistake of saying he missed his previously featured ’57 3100 so I made darn sure to take a few photos of this truck to rub it in a little.
This truck sported great patina and laid out quite well. I’d imagine that industrial looking bumper would throw some pretty good sparks should the owner be so inclined.
The shifter was also pretty unique. I don’t know enough about guns to say if this was real or not but it did look rather convincing.
Again, the stance of this truck is incredibly impressive but I imagine it boogies darn well to boot.
Since I am always looking for some inspiration for Project ‘Why Wait?’ I spent a lot of time looking over this truck and must admit it played a bit of a part in the design of my rear bed mounts.
While I don’t plan on cutting my door for speakers I did like the door panels in this truck, and the use of the original gauges. I plan to run an aftermarket wheel though this truck does make a strong point for keeping the original one.
The truck also tried to make a pretty convincing argument to keep the six, but at this point I’d already made up my mind that it was going to hit the road.
I’m sure you all noticed this truck lurking in the background of the Webber chassis truck. It was built by Hitman Hot Rods and is another truck I’ve spent a lot of time looking at.
It’s also a regular at the Shake Rabble and Roll weekly meet I go to and I’ve drooled over it so much that Ash actually points it out when he see’s it now exclaiming “Red truck” with enthusiasm.
The truck is clean enough to show extremely well but if you look carefully there’s enough character in it to facilitate driving it around near daily in the summer without worry.
Coming straight out of a weekend if -20 degree weather posting these now is a bit of torture, but I hope you guys enjoyed it.
The cold makes people do weird things, especially the cold out here in Ontario that is several degrees below 0 for week-long stretches.
Some people will do damn near anything to avoid having to spend time in the cold, and if spending time in the cold is necessary do whatever they can to make it as fun as possible.
This is how, I imagine, things like skis, snowboards, and snowmobiles came to be and I’m pretty sure it’s how this once Suzuki Samurai started down the path to becoming the subject of today’s WTF Friday.
Posted in a local Facebook for sale group the photo above reveals a hilarious looking snow worthy vehicle (though I have my questions about how well those front wheels will fare).
Sadly the vehicle no longer looks like it does above with the tracks having taken a vacation some years ago.
The motor, which now resides in the rear, and uses a center mounted sprocket to connect to the drive axle, apparently does run quite well aside from a small fuel leak.
It’s a bit of a basket case inside but really looks like a good bit of cleaning and some rocker guard on the floor and it would be great for ripping around some private property.
Currently sitting on four wheels front and rear it looks more than a little goofy, but I could see a lot of fun in this thing if someone where to take the time and restore it to its former glory.
It’s only $500 now on Facebook so if you’ve got some extra coin kicking around, and the cold has you thinking less than clear, it might be a great impulse buy. If you do be sure to send updates.
