Dad's Current Project

Good deal. I try to get to as many cruise spots with my father in the summer too. Let me know when you figure out his schedule this summer. I think we would all have a blast.
 
No new pics, but apparently a local (to my parents) paint place decided dad's stuff gets enough visibility that they offered to give dad free paint (PPG) for it. Pretty bad ass.
 
Tell your Dad to keep the mopars comming. Very nice build. !!!



4 cam tbird said:
A few pictures of dad's current project. A Mopar convertible, can anyone still actually recognize what it is/was? :)



If you do know what it was, the front fender/hood may look a little odd

Notice anything different about the rocker/lower door?

The rockers are extended to make the car look lower but that made the rocker funny looking so dad extended the bottom of the door to even the proportions back out.

6.1L Hemi lurking under the plastic. Obviously a B-body never had a shaker hood so that's all done custom.

Driver's door isn't all primed yet so you can see the work being done better


Unfinished extended quarter

Modified bumper to get it in closer to the body


Trunk Lid, if you have the car figured out this will throw you off too


Grill is kind of an uncertainty still, couple ideas going on.




Quarter extension/custom taillight concept, don't think taillights are finalized yet either


Suspension stuff




He's moving along pretty good now that it's winter. Should be pretty interesting when it's done. Lot more work than the Charger but probably won't get half the attention.
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It's looking good man! I WISH I could convince my dad to go with a newer motor and away from carbs on his projects. :lol:
 
Hugger Z said:
It's looking good man! I WISH I could convince my dad to go with a newer motor and away from carbs on his projects. :lol:
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Dad got pretty interested in doing the new motor type of stuff when we did the swap in my TBird. I think him being a wiring guy helps too. I think your dad drives his stuff a lot too, right? When you're at a show somewhere in the earlier Spring/later Fall and have to fire it up on a cold morning or at elevation it is so nice having a fuel injected car. So much easier to deal with.

That new album I posted is a good one because mom actually has pics in there from before the fenders were shortened so you can see what is really done there. The residue from the Coronet badge makes it all the more apprarent.
 
4 cam tbird said:
Dad got pretty interested in doing the new motor type of stuff when we did the swap in my TBird. I think him being a wiring guy helps too. I think your dad drives his stuff a lot too, right? When you're at a show somewhere in the earlier Spring/later Fall and have to fire it up on a cold morning or at elevation it is so nice having a fuel injected car. So much easier to deal with.
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Or show him my car. The wiring on LSx setups isn't that bad.
 
4 cam tbird said:
Dad got pretty interested in doing the new motor type of stuff when we did the swap in my TBird. I think him being a wiring guy helps too. I think your dad drives his stuff a lot too, right? When you're at a show somewhere in the earlier Spring/later Fall and have to fire it up on a cold morning or at elevation it is so nice having a fuel injected car. So much easier to deal with.

That new album I posted is a good one because mom actually has pics in there from before the fenders were shortened so you can see what is really done there. The residue from the Coronet badge makes it all the more apprarent.
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That's what I keep telling him. But dad doesn't like wiring. And one of his buddies has been messing with a LT1 in a 57' Chevy. The cost of the painless harness along with the headaches are still scaring them away..... But I will keep on it! ;)

Scooter70 said:
Or show him my car. The wiring on LSx setups isn't that bad.
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So you say. But dad & I are mechanical. Wiring is not one of our forte's.

4 cam tbird said:
New pics added to that album. Engine in the car with the smoothed engine bay and it looks like dad has been doing some stripe experimentation on the primer.
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Looks good! :cool:
 
Hugger Z said:
So you say. But dad & I are mechanical. Wiring is not one of our forte's.
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Its so easy though, the connectors are all specific to their function. you basically have all the sensors on the motor, and each plug only plugs into a specific sensor. Its pretty foolproof. The hard stuff is getting aftermerket gauges and stuff like that to work
 
cjmatt said:
Its so easy though, the connectors are all specific to their function. you basically have all the sensors on the motor, and each plug only plugs into a specific sensor. Its pretty foolproof. The hard stuff is getting aftermerket gauges and stuff like that to work
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That's the part where I am getting help. Joe (duke) to the rescue! :lol:

And the gauges are important to my dad since he drives the car all over. A few of his projects have been out here for Woodward. Not sure which he will bring this year yet. He's hoping for his 56' El Camino.
 
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