Thread: Me and my car

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My name is Justin and I am stationed in Alaska, the wife and I decided to look for a mild hot rod for a family build this is what we found... Its a 1947 Austin was a 4 door and now it is a 2 door... Up front it has been modified with and a-arm setup with coilovers rack and penion steering wilwood breaks hooked to a set of centerline wheels and M/T's... The old chassi has been replaced with a compete tube new one and has been set up for a sbc... The interior has all been gutted and floors replaced and a 8 point cage intsalled... In the rear its running a spooled and narrowed 8.8 with morso latter bars aslo hooked to the centerline and M/T combo all covered by a new set of tubs with a 12 gal. fuel cell between... The guy that has it now is pulling the 98 LS1 out and should be ready for pick up this friday... Here is a pic of what it looks like now and I will have more pics next week...

Greetings to the website. There is lots of good advice here with a wealth of years of experience.

This looks like a great project car and should be a lot of fun to take on. Where is the car located? Have you gone through it? Is it a good price? What are your plans for it?

My nephew (and godson), is also currently stationed in AK.
Best of luck on the car.
Jerome

The car is in Eagle River, Alaska... I will pick it up this friday and start going through it... As of right now Plans are for a sbc with around 400 hp... For what all is there I think I got a decent deal everything is more expensive here because of the whole shipping thing... Alot of the work has been done as in removeing all rust, replacing the floor pans including tubs, installing the roll cage and tubeing the chassi... I will post pics as I go plan on haveing the body off to have a look at the chassi this weekend and go from there...

Welcome, nice starter! Seems like just an engine install and you can hit the street or the strip! Somebody did a tremendous amount of work!

yeah just a few loose screws here and there but shouldnt be too bad...