GrandpaMcGurk Posted June 20, 2013 Author Posted June 20, 2013 Thanks for the kudos guys....I appreaciate them. Let's put some rubber on the road.....here's the Street Charger kit wheels, tires and so on.........obviously, these aren't blowing my skirt up. The rear rubber is okay but the fat Nascar fronts with those big Good Year letters just hurt my face too much for a Pro-Street hot rod. Any way....here's a pic of the kit stuff.
GrandpaMcGurk Posted June 20, 2013 Author Posted June 20, 2013 using the rear wheel halves and a couple of narrow steelies from the parts box, some sanding, trial and error stacking, trimming for the back space I wanted...oh my...lookee here, could this perhaps be a reversed deep dish steel wheel in the making?
GrandpaMcGurk Posted June 20, 2013 Author Posted June 20, 2013 Some Krylon and drafting pen detailing.......
GrandpaMcGurk Posted June 20, 2013 Author Posted June 20, 2013 If you guys don't put dip sticks on your engines, you can skip this step too......."cheap valve stems". A bit of tubing and a cut off common pin for the "bling" valve cap.
GrandpaMcGurk Posted June 20, 2013 Author Posted June 20, 2013 Found a skinny front tire and old school 5 spoker for the front in the parts box, installed a valve stem and now it's off to the paint booth to get rid of that toy car shine.
GrandpaMcGurk Posted June 20, 2013 Author Posted June 20, 2013 (edited) Here they are folks.......skinny front 5 spoker and a fat daddy rear steelie with rubber to match. Yeah buddy....this build is starting to make sense. Edited June 20, 2013 by GrandpaMcGurk
GrandpaMcGurk Posted June 20, 2013 Author Posted June 20, 2013 Faster, Don, faster. You're cracking me up Jim........putting my name in the same sentence with "fast" is an oxymoron like Jumbo Shrimp! Granted, our club shirts say "FAST" (Florida Auto & Scale Truck) on the front but I build at my own chosen speed...........just barley off idle! It takes me most of a day just to plan out what I'm going to do tomorrow.
GrandpaMcGurk Posted June 20, 2013 Author Posted June 20, 2013 (edited) Here's a few quickie shots of my narrowed, beefed up rear compared to the kit leaf sprung rear. Need to do some clean up but it's beginning to feel right. Edited June 20, 2013 by GrandpaMcGurk
geordie Posted June 20, 2013 Posted June 20, 2013 Excellent job !!! I've got a good feeling about this build. A admire your adility to fab up parts rather than reaching for the ckeck book, nice job.
GrandpaMcGurk Posted June 20, 2013 Author Posted June 20, 2013 Thanks Dave. Here's an eye candy update on the Dodge boys........ I was going to (originally) use a '69 Charger but decided to go with a '73 Charger body 'cause I have other plans for the '69. Anyhow, on with the dog and pony show. A little shredded rubber residue in the wheel wells..... some paint and wiring..... opened up the trunk...
GrandpaMcGurk Posted June 20, 2013 Author Posted June 20, 2013 Thanks Eric..... Detailing is what keeps this hobby challenging for me......from my point of view each part is a model in itself and the devil is in the detail. I'm well aware that most folks will not even notice some the fussin' I've done with this thing but I'm not building it for them, right? If it fancies my tickle and feels good........I'm steppin' large and livin' easy. In an effort to prevent burn out and make my models unique to me, I like to add that little extra giggle factor......I bought a new Hemi Road Runner back in '69 (a real one) and actually painted one of these on the pumpkin......it was the view most of the folks saw when they figured they could smoke my bird.
GrandpaMcGurk Posted June 20, 2013 Author Posted June 20, 2013 Started on the roll and elephant cages........
GrandpaMcGurk Posted June 20, 2013 Author Posted June 20, 2013 The the kit stuff was kinda crappy or just not bothered with so I scratch built a master cylinder for the brakes & one for the juice clutch, bent up some hard lines.....ain't they pretty? As long as I'm at it, I probably should run some wires and find a place for fuses, heat sinks, 'puter and all that other sparky stuff.....
Project510 Posted June 20, 2013 Posted June 20, 2013 Great detail! and the sharpie DIY was pretty sweet!
outragis Posted June 21, 2013 Posted June 21, 2013 Don, I am learning a lot from you on this build... Thank you!
GrandpaMcGurk Posted June 21, 2013 Author Posted June 21, 2013 The rear is triangulated and it actually works............. added a pan hard bar.
GrandpaMcGurk Posted June 21, 2013 Author Posted June 21, 2013 Started fabbing up some front coil overs to replace the kit torsion bars.....
GrandpaMcGurk Posted June 22, 2013 Author Posted June 22, 2013 These next few photos are just a mock-up to set my ride height etc. I'll also swap the (steerable) spindles from side to side so that the control arms face foward allowing me to mount a rack and pinion unit in front of the oil pan eliminating the stock steering box and tie rod.
Wonderbread Kustomz Posted June 22, 2013 Posted June 22, 2013 Wow! That's some awesome work! Love it!
GrandpaMcGurk Posted June 22, 2013 Author Posted June 22, 2013 As the title of this threads says....."Pro-Street/Hot Rod" got me to thinking, as long as I have all that going on.......what the heck, just as well toss a little artsy fasty in the mix and make it a Custom Pro Street Hot Rod right?
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