Plans are to make it a custom lowrider show and go!
The lowrider and custom crowd have been bumping heads for too long so there is no reason you can't have the best of both worlds! This car will also be a driver so my wife can jump in it and go to work, the store or where ever if she doesn't feel like driving her Dart.
- Mustang II front suspension
- 225 Dodge slant six, mildly built
- 904 auto tranny
- Narrowed 56 Caddy front bumper
- Narrowed 59 Impala dash
Future plans
- 72 spoke chrome 14" Dayton wire wheels (have)
- Install custom 4 link rear suspension (have)
- Mopar 8 3/4" rear end with 3.23 gears (this will be a driver!)
- Hydraulic suspension with fully polished hard lines, 4 batteries, double whammy pump, front/back/pancake.
- Undecided on a plan for the tail lights/rear bumper
- Molded interior, T-bird style round back seat.
- Round all the corners door tops, hood edges, ect. It is a round car and all the square edges take away from the style.
- Color will be a super dark burgundy
The day we traded a 72 Scamp for it. The previous owner was admittedly building a "Goodguys car" by just throwing catalog parts at it. He was bored with the chevy and I was bored with the Plymouth so we did a straight up trade, everyone was happy with the deal.
24 hrs after we got it the boring, same old 350/350 combo was out!
Setting the pinion angle for the trans mount.
More than enough clearance to drop the oil pan without unbolting the engine if I ever have to! This is something that a lot of guys don't think of when doing an engine swap.
Trans mount is made up of a stock GM T350 mount with the holes drilled out a little bigger to bolt up to a Dodge 904 tranny. Excuse the shitty welds on the crossmember. All I had to work with at the time was a shitty Miller 135 110v mig. I have since gone over all the welds with a 220 unit. A 110v mig should only be used on small brackets and body/fab work NEVER on suspension work!
All the pics below are how the car sits right now (except it is pretty much all in bare metal). We bought a house, moved, and worked on other projects so the 48 gets messed with every so often but it isn't a race to say "oh I built it in 6 months using stuff I had around the house" IT IS NOT A FUCKING P.O.S. RAT ROD!!!
Messing around with 56 Olds headlight rings and center bar.
Intake is a Australian Lynx set up for 3 SU carbs with Cannon adapters for Webber carbs.
