Hot Rods and Street Rods? ...or... Muscle Car?

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Permalink Reply by Frederick Georges on February 8, 2009 at 5:42pm

No really, the 41 Chevy corvette pickup was my street rod of 26 plus years. The pickup is a standard looking 1941 Chevy pickup (sleeper) with a 1978 corvette suspention and drive train. It has modified "A" arms from a corvair with beefed up springs, ball joints and bolts to support the added weight of a V-8 engine and stock trailing arms from the corvette that mounted just nice on the old "41" needle nose frame rails. The disc brakes on the rear are standard corvette. The ones on the front are from a buick special sedan- all of them four piston twin action units mounted on 11" rotors. All custom manufactured components by me to mate up all the mixed parts. The rack and pinion steering unit was from a Ford pinto as there was at that time no other units small enough to fit.
This was for me the fun of street rods,.. building them! The 350 CI power plant was all track ready, blueprinted, ported and polished 202 heads , pop up pistons, shot peaned and balanced crank and connecting rods. 550 lift cam with solid lifters, ( for the noise) and twin Holley 600 double pumpers, (for the noise) on an Edlebrock tunnel ram manifold. All sparked to life with the Mallory twin breaker revpole distributor.
I have to dig up some of the pictures of me building it for you to see. I am traveling now so you have to wait.
The "Pete" is just my working toy, it is how I make my living these days. Nothing special there.

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Permalink Reply by Lt. Caleb French on February 8, 2009 at 10:46pm

Frederick, you are one hell of a guy, I tell ya what! I am honored to know ya : )

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Permalink Reply by Frederick Georges on February 10, 2009 at 8:09am

I am just and old hippie gearhead,... but thank you for the high praise buddy.

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Permalink Reply by Lt. Caleb French on February 10, 2009 at 12:49pm

Classic : )

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Permalink Reply by Aaron VanNatta on February 8, 2009 at 5:55pm

Couple more pics of my grandnational

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Permalink Reply by Lt. Caleb French on February 8, 2009 at 7:48pm

Awesome : )

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Permalink Reply by Aaron VanNatta on February 8, 2009 at 8:18pm

Yeah it's a blast to drive

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Permalink Reply by Lt. Caleb French on February 9, 2009 at 12:36pm

Looks like it : )

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