In the final analysis, that is what really matters...........it's your car and you want it to reflect your Dads and your own touches. It would be a very boring hobby if every car looked the same and had the same components. If I want to see that I go to my local new car dealer.

As for your transmission choice, just another option. One of our members, Bill, (Gastrick) has a really sweet old school 32 coupe with a Hemi. He is using an adapter (I think from HotHeads) to run a TH350 transmission behind it. Makes a very nice, smooth, easily repaired setup.

Sometimes the transmissions that were used behind cars like your Hemi can cost so much to rebuild, IF you can find a qualified transmission guy to do it, that it makes more sense to simply adapt a different transmission. I had to make that decision for the 394 Olds I am going to use in my rpu. It had the original Olds 4 speed Dual Path transmission which weighed about a ton, and rather than having it freshened up I bought an adapter from Bendtsens Transmissions so I can run a TH 350. I figure if the transmission would ever go out 500 miles from home I can find someone who knows a 350, but just try to find one who knows how to fix a 46 year old Olds transmission.

Keep us posted on how the car is coming, and we LOVE lots of pictures.

Don