Eliminator coupe

[hobbybobby]

The ZZ Top Eliminator hot rod became a legend by appearing in several rock music videos.

Rock 'n' roll and hot rodding have a lot in common, both inject old forms (say, blues music or antique Fords) with horsepower and flamboyance. It's no surprise, then, that many rock stars are also hot rod enthusiasts.

ZZ Top frontman Billy F. Gibbons is probably the best-known roddin' rocker.

Heavily influenced by Pete Chapouris' the California Kid, Billy had Don Thelan's Buffalo Motor Cars shop build him a chopped 1933 Ford in the early '80s that would soon be known as the Eliminator coupe.

Even an old build, my version, I do not remember why I did not build it as original, I think it was from my kolor experimental Phase...

Hope, you like it.

Finicky hi-po motors have never been Billy's scene, so the emphasis was on reliability.

Power was provided by a simple but capable 350-cid Chevy V-8 with a Camaro Z-28 hydraulic cam, a polished intake manifold with a single four-barrel carb, and a Turbo 350 transmission.

As a finishing touch, Eric Vaughn milled the ZZ Top logo into the valve covers.

Also, the interior is from my kolor experimental phase, and on the roofliner is even a little graffiti, unfortunately you can not see it so well...

[MsDano85gt]

nice in deed! does that mean the air cleaner lid and valve covers are machined pieces? or someone carved the zz top in the plastic for you?

[PappyD340]

Very KOOL Boban, that's the neat thing about modeling we can do whatever we like, and you did a grea job I like it!!!!

[bondo bill]

nice fade

[Wonderbread Kustomz]

I like it!!