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Don s (aka da34guy) [ View ] [ donshotrods@cableone.net ] [ Car Ads ] [ Blogs ] Prescott, Arizona (928) 445-7637  Don

Was over pickin up steel this a.m. and started talkin to the owner, the subject of Hot Rods came up Wonder why,-- and he asked me if I'd B interested in doin sum work on an old car he built 20 years ago for the ISCA show circuit. He took me around back to a 6 car garage -open the door and I almost SH^T in my pants. Said he'd only drivin it 50 miles or so, and 1 time down the 1/4. This was sittin there, plus 5 other incredible cars. 30 minutes later I was back with the trailer, sum gas, and 2 new batterys. 15 minutes later it was on the trailer. He showed me the dyno sheet from 1998 --a whoppin 978H.P. 1121 ft lbs tq. This 1 is gonna B fun to work on AND ROAD TEST.

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Posted by Starfire  -  07/10/2008 04:57 PM Yeah, but is it street legal?.............. (grin) Starfire [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Weimar, Texas   Posted by amswuod1  -  07/10/2008 05:05 PM What's to work on - an oil change ??? Bob D. Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult. [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Union, Kentucky Charter Member since July 2006   Posted by 31tudor  -  07/10/2008 05:17 PM 978 HP? 1121 FT LBS? Well its a good start. Mailman come today? Eric Hibbs [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] St. George, Utah Charter Member since January 2002   Posted by da34guy  -  07/10/2008 05:20 PM Yeah Starfire --it's street legal -Titled and insured BTW Are ya ever gonna post sum pics of your "COLLECTION" ???? Bob D. He wants me to go thru it from front to back and make sure everything is O.K. on it.He want to start drivin it !!!! Already know there is a brake problem. He wants the gauges (10 of em) changed out, an air cleaner fabbed so he can run the hood top( it's only got 1 5/8 " clearance) Replace all bushings, the whole Enchilida. This thing is a work of art. I'd venture to say that in todays market it would cost over 200 grand to replicate it. The workman ship is unbelievable. Don [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Prescott, Arizona Charter Member since October 2001   Posted by da34guy  -  07/10/2008 05:24 PM Eric - He ain't made it yet. Did drive it down the street about 2000 ft and back W O W !!!!!!! This thing launch's like my old B/Gas Willys. It's definatly A double E Ticket ride Don [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Prescott, Arizona Charter Member since October 2001   Posted by 31tudor  -  07/10/2008 05:29 PM Get those brakes fixed before ya do it again brother! Don't want a call from Mary asking if I have a 6' 3" spatula! Gimme a shout when the mail arrives. Eric Hibbs [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] St. George, Utah Charter Member since January 2002   Posted by Starfire  -  07/10/2008 05:31 PM It's hard to believe anyone would just let a genuine three tire shop to the mile rubber burner like that just sit in a garage for years. I'd be out enjoying the thing as often as possible. Have fun! Starfire [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Weimar, Texas   Posted by da34guy  -  07/10/2008 05:41 PM This guy has probably more TOYS than 20 or 30 of us put together. You name it he's got it Boats, Planes, off road race cars, roundy round stuff,motorhomeSS, just a few homes scattered all over the western U.S. And plenty of Real Estate. Don [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Prescott, Arizona Charter Member since October 2001   Posted by dixie  -  07/10/2008 08:05 PM Thats the kinda guy u enjoy doin work for,have fun on those test {rides} lots of em. jim grace [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] dade city, Florida Charter Member since January 2006   Posted by JAWS  -  07/10/2008 09:45 PM I would like to formally ask for an invitation for the next test drive... An electrical headache can make a great car a pain [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Boise, Idaho Charter Member since August 2004   Posted by Mike52  -  07/11/2008 09:49 PM Don, it's amazing what can be found in the 'building around back'. What engine is in it, looks like a Mopar 440 wedge engine. Mike52 [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Lutz, Florida   Posted by da34guy  -  07/12/2008 07:32 AM Brant- Your more than welcome to come down for the next "TEST RUN" Mike- Good eyes Yep it's a 440, Built by Bob Riggles of the Infamous "HURST HEMI UNDER GLASS CUDA" Don [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Prescott, Arizona Charter Member since October 2001   Posted by MOREorless  -  07/12/2008 03:24 PM Okay, I'll be the dumb guy. What body or make is it? I don't recognize it. I usually know what kind of old car Im looking at. Anyway, it is beautiful workmanship. MOREorless [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] DEARBORN, Michigan   Posted by da34guy  -  07/12/2008 07:24 PM Loren-- Let's see if anybody can tell us ? Of course I know. Hey Starfire ------- You that knows all can probably tell us !!!!!!!!!!!! Don [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Prescott, Arizona Charter Member since October 2001   Posted by 31tudor  -  07/12/2008 08:53 PM 36 Hupmobile? Eric Hibbs [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] St. George, Utah Charter Member since January 2002   Posted by artie  -  07/12/2008 08:58 PM hudson terraplane ?????? artie [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] ozark, Missouri   Posted by DavyJ  -  07/12/2008 09:09 PM it doesn't look to have enough of the original sheet metal left to be called anything except ........amazing. Definitely will make the oil and rubber companies smile when that gets driven hard. Still driving the wife's car, cause I am slow. [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Niagara Falls, Canada Charter Member since February 2005   Posted by JAWS  -  07/12/2008 11:19 PM Desoto or dodge An electrical headache can make a great car a pain [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Boise, Idaho Charter Member since August 2004   Posted by JAWS  -  07/12/2008 11:35 PM I'm gonna say 35-38 An electrical headache can make a great car a pain [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Boise, Idaho Charter Member since August 2004   Posted by da34guy  -  07/13/2008 08:13 AM Come on guys--- So far only 1 of ya got the year. Don [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Prescott, Arizona Charter Member since October 2001   Posted by Crazyhorse Rod Shop  -  07/13/2008 09:37 AM looks like a 35 mopar to me but the front has been really worked on. might be an early inderweed dont poke the porchdog........he bites [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] BLUFF DALE, Texas Charter Member since March 2003   Posted by 100646  -  07/13/2008 09:54 AM 35 plymouth? 100646 [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Middletown, Indiana Charter Member since December 2003   Posted by JAWS  -  07/13/2008 09:54 AM Mopar, that covers plymouth dodge and desoto and chrysler, right. That's what I meant An electrical headache can make a great car a pain [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Boise, Idaho Charter Member since August 2004   Posted by artie  -  07/13/2008 11:00 AM enough already !!!!!!!!!!! tell us now artie [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] ozark, Missouri   Posted by whipsold39  -  07/13/2008 11:21 AM 1937 PLYMOUTH whipsold39 [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] 400 9th ave silvis 61282, Illinois Charter Member since January 2006   Posted by da34guy  -  07/13/2008 11:31 AM Yer gettin close Don [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Prescott, Arizona Charter Member since October 2001   Posted by JAWS  -  07/13/2008 11:44 AM studebaker An electrical headache can make a great car a pain [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Boise, Idaho Charter Member since August 2004   Posted by JAWS  -  07/13/2008 11:46 AM it's the rear window that's throwing me.... An electrical headache can make a great car a pain [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Boise, Idaho Charter Member since August 2004   Posted by da34guy  -  07/13/2008 11:58 AM here's another pic Don [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Prescott, Arizona Charter Member since October 2001   Posted by whipsold39  -  07/13/2008 12:14 PM THE BACK SHOT LOOKS LIKE PONTIAC whipsold39 [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] 400 9th ave silvis 61282, Illinois Charter Member since January 2006   Posted by aosborn  -  07/13/2008 12:32 PM If this guy plans on putting many road miles on this car, he will be much happier if the track locater with the heim joints was removed and replaced with the longest panhard bar that you can fit on the rear axle... aosborn [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Olympia, Washington   Posted by APLUS  -  07/13/2008 01:05 PM Don, it sure looks like a modified '38 Plymouth to me....... APLUS [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Austin, Texas   Posted by whipsold39  -  07/14/2008 09:17 AM MY LAST GUESS 1936 NASH whipsold39 [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] 400 9th ave silvis 61282, Illinois Charter Member since January 2006   Posted by blksheep  -  07/14/2008 09:33 AM It's a '38 DeSoto. blksheep [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Charlotte, North Carolina   Posted by Crazyhorse Rod Shop  -  07/14/2008 09:39 AM 37-38 desoto would be my second guess sheeper bottom of grille looks right. top has beens cut on. dont poke the porchdog........he bites [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] BLUFF DALE, Texas Charter Member since March 2003   Posted by APLUS  -  07/14/2008 09:44 AM blksheep could be correct, I beleive it's a '38 Mopar---DeSoto, Plymouth or Dodge which have pretty much the same body style except for grille area. APLUS [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Austin, Texas   Posted by blksheep  -  07/14/2008 10:07 AM Saw a hale of these mid 30's mopars pulled out from behind barns in the early 80's in upstate N.Y. By that time, the majority of the Ford and GM coupes and coaches had done roundy round duty. IMO, the late 30's, early 40's Mopars were one of those girls that always went to the prom alone. Don, when I look at this one, all I can say is "She ain't pretty, but, She sure can cook". blksheep...in Charlotte blksheep [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Charlotte, North Carolina   Posted by da34guy  -  07/14/2008 10:14 AM O. K. Guys Her it is ---------- 1936 PLYMOUTH with hundred's of hours of sheet metal & chassis work. It's been chopped, widened,front end streched and pie cut. Mandrel bent chassis that's 4" longer. Don [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Prescott, Arizona Charter Member since October 2001   Posted by blksheep  -  07/14/2008 10:29 AM Yeah,.......O.K. Don. If you say so....................... blksheep [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Charlotte, North Carolina   Posted by MOREorless  -  07/14/2008 01:48 PM I have a '36 Plymouth story. When I was five years old at the almost end of W.W. II, the old man next door had his car jacked up with the wheels off. Nobody was around when I went over to nose around. He had all the lugnuts in the hubcaps on the ground. I picked one up and it felt real nice. I thought, "Oh boy, I bet I could throw one of these really far. I threw all his lugnuts into a big weeded field! It was all innocent, I didn't think I had done anything wrong. When he asked me about them. I told him I had thrown all of them into the field. He told my mother and I couldn't sit down the rest of the day, I was hurtin'. He went to a junk yard and got some more. We all laughed about it years later. If I were him I would have killed me! MOREorless [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] DEARBORN, Michigan   Posted by APLUS  -  07/14/2008 03:34 PM OK, but the '36 Plymouths I've seen don't have the divided rear window. I was going by the style line on the lower front fender as it leaves the running board and curves upwards---like a '38 not '36. What do I know compared to the owner. APLUS [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Austin, Texas   Posted by Red's Place Custom & Restoration  -  07/14/2008 04:01 PM the 1/4 glass and doors are the same as 38 ply or dodge just finished a 38 dodge last year maybe some leg pullin going on here Red's Place Custom & Restoration [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Charlotte, North Carolina   Posted by Mike52  -  07/14/2008 05:17 PM Mike- Good eyes Yep it's a 440, Built by Bob Riggles of the Infamous "HURST HEMI UNDER GLASS CUDA" Don, I was a huge Mopar fan from 18 years old, having owned many 440 & Hemi powered cars in my past, it's easy to spot one. Are you sure it's a '36, after only 50¼ miles in 20 years, maybe the owner forgot what year it was...................lol Mike52 [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Lutz, Florida

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