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Looking good Don .... did you make the vroom... vroom sounds when you sat in it??

Paul

Don, the Hot Rod looks really good and the 41 Chevy tail lights fit right in. It also looks like it could have been a cover car for and early 60's Hot Rod Magazine.

Richard

Thanks guys. No vroom vroom noises, but I sure did sit and stare at it a lot. Now that it is going together I wonder why I let it sit for these past 11 or 12 years without doing anything with it earlier. Life just gets in the way sometimes.

One problem I am going to have is that the drivers side valve cover will never come off with the body in place. The tall valve covers just clear the firewall by a tad even with the additional clearance the fiberglass guy was able to give me. I guess I'll just have to unbolt the body and lift up the front a little if and when I need to get it off.

Don

And yes, the red distributor cap will be painted black. LOL

WOW!!!! that is a awesome looking ride!

Excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!! I agree with Richard, we need to get this on a magazine cover. Maybe Ken knows someone who could make this happen! I personnaly think this is right up the alley of Hot Rod Deluxe, with an old style pin up gal posing next to it in Bobby socks!

Good lookin' hotrod!

Betchya glad the distributor is in the front.

Is there more leg room in the '27 body than the '23 body Don?

Originally Posted by brickman

Is there more leg room in the '27 body than the '23 body Don?

No, strangely enough the 23 is roomier leg wise. I think it is because the 27 is channeled 5 inches and the 23 only 3 inches. Now footroom is another issue. Because the 23 is so low the 350 turbo is sharing a lot of cockpit space with the driver. The floor is almost flat in the 27 so there is room for 3 pedals. The other oddity is that I sit deeper in the 23 than the 27. Not sure if it has to do with that extra 2 inch channel or if the 23 bodies are just deeper.

Over the years I have continually lowered the seat in the 27 because I was sitting so high in the saddle. It was very comfortable up there but people kept telling me they thought I was like 7 feet tall until they saw me out of the car. I originally had all my switches and even a stereo under the seat but those are gone and this time I will only have a thin bench pad across the cockpit to sit on, about the same thickness as my 23 has.

I might even pick up a couple miles per gallon because of less wind resistance.

Don

Don,

You could be right, but in any case, I'm sure they make allowances for Yanks.

Jack.

One question, Don... I have a coupe and am building a roadster. When the roadster is roadworthy the weather will help me decide which car I drive, but with two really nice roadsters, how will you decide?

Any new updates? I can't wait to see this one in person.

Don,
Is there any room under your floor in the seat area, where you could drop the floor down inside the frame? I have the same problem in the rear seat area of my sedan. I'm going to make cut outs and drop the floor down in "butt pockets" to get more head room. Just a thought.
Ken

Jim, I don't know how I will decide......I've never had that problem before. Maybe we need to ask an expert who has more than one roadster.........like Ken! For him it is like those underwear that the girls have with Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, etc marked on them. He has one for every day.

As for updates, I really have backed off working on my 27 a little, on purpose. I don't want anything to interfere with Dan getting his car into paint right now, so every time we go to the shop I try to help him as much as possible with his. That, and it has been ungodly hot and it's hard to get the energy to work on it. I went over today and changed the fuel filter, oil, cap and rotor on my daily driver Honda, and I am wiped out from the heat. (changing the fuel filter on a Honda is one of the worst jobs I have ever done......they give you NO room to work. )

Ken, I would have dropped it down just like you describe, but I have so many crossmembers running in all directions right in that area that there is no room to do that. Luckily, I'm only 5' 9" so I can tuck in there pretty well.

Don

I go buy color, if I'm feeling a little down I take the Grey one and so on

One more suggestion on your '27. I will have the same problem on my new truck. Even cutting down the frame like I do I'm still cramped. So on the new truck I'm going to put bubbles in the back of the cab so I can slide back farther. You won't see these in the truck because the bed will hide them. In your roadster the turtle deck would hide them. If you look at your posture when you are sitting down I think you will see what I mean.
Ken

Wait a minute Ken, what "new" truck? I know about the sedan you are doing, your roadsters, and your old truck, but did I miss something? I know my memory is getting worse, but this is the first I heard about a new truck. Tell us more?

Don

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Any new updates? I can't wait to see this one in person.[/QUOTE]

Ok Jim, just for you I actually did something on the 27. Today I hauled my roll bar and a switch panel to your neck of the woods to have them chromed. Went to Gulf Plating in the Lauderdale area. I also took a bunch of stuff for Dans car. They seem to be good at it, I saw a bunch of chromed stuff on a display table they had set up, and all of it looked good. Turnaround time is good too, he says it should all be done next week.

I'll post some pictures when we pick the stuff up.

Don