Nice car. With a hood it will be a real sleeper. I am still carrying around the very old bias toward thinking Hot Rods are Fords. I can recall a '40 Ply convert back in 1954 that had a '50 Olds V8 shoehorned into it, but the owner advertised the car with a paint he named "Hot Rod Fuschia" which was a sort of light purple-pink. Today there a lot of neat Mopar rods but back in the '50s Mopars with flathead sixes were family cars as the "safer alternative" and my grandad handed down a '35, '36, '41 and '50 Plymouth to my Dad. He really liked the early hydraulic brakes! I guess younger rodders only see old Mopars as available steel but I still think "rod" when I see an early Ford and "family" when I see an early '35 or '36 Dodge or Plymouth. Just rambling in my nostalgia, but I have messed around with a 340 too and they were way underrated in HP but pretty gas hungry. Have fun, but if you get a hood back on that coupe it will be a neat nostalgia sleeper.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder