Wow, just freaking wow!

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Originally posted by Fabman:

The decision was made to equip the car with a delay box and try to learn how to top bulb race here locally. I have raced for 27+ years, but have zero experience racing top bulb but looking forward to the challenge and learning as I go.

That was a bad spill I remember it. Glad you're ok and back at it.

You are wrong about zero experience top bulb racing though. You have 27 years experience.

Top bulb is just letting go on the first light you see, just like pro tree racing.

Nothing to it. Bump in shallow, let go on the first thing you see, the top bulb.

I did some 370 pro tree racing and everyone said how'd you make the transition so easily. I said what transition.

Put a dial on it and have some fun with it, win or lose. It's drag racing.

Beautiful car, thanks for sharing the build! You’re very talented!

Amazing seeing the amount of work it takes to build these rides.Gotta be a 100k+ build to have it done as a customer?
Sure wish you/we knew what happened to the other car so we can learn from it!

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Originally posted by jenavet:
Amazing seeing the amount of work it takes to build these rides.Gotta be a 100k+ build to have it done as a customer?
Sure wish you/we knew what happened to the other car so we can learn from it!

Yes, well north of that. At normal shop labor rate of $75/hr x 1200 hours, that's $90k in labor alone before any parts.

Paint took longer than expected as between October and December, both brothers and most of the shop wound up getting Covid. Once January hit the progress ramped up.

While the body shop worked, I was trying to come up with a color selection. Went through, many, many choices and after months, was able to pick the blue on the car which is an original Ford color called Bimini Blue.

A good friend of mine did several renderings to help see how the car would look in varying colors.















With this last one being closest to the Bimini Blue...

Cleaning to prepare for color.











side marker lights air brushed.





Out in the sun for the first time. Taking the car home to make it a roller and will bring it back to pick up the front end.

Back at home and off the transport dolly.

With the floor structure being all tube, there really isn't any place to lay tools while working on say wiring. So I ordered some aluminum cookie sheets from Amazon as well as some spray glue and soft foam drawer liner sheets to attach to the underside of the cookie sheet to prevent scratching.









Racetech seat.

While the car was off at paint, the engine was at the engine builders being inspected and freshened. My cylinder head guy had the task of fitting/welding/porting the new intake. The cylinder heads have a two direction dowel shift done by BES many years ago, so this creates some work to get an intake to fit.

Once he was done the intake was sent to Switzer Dynamics to have the EFI injector conversion done.

Collecting & organizing wiring supplies.

This was a mistake I made that needed corrected at a very inopportune time. The body shop discovered that the wight of the stock hatch along with the pressure from the gas struts was causing the roof to flex at the hinge area. It was felt this could cause the body work/paint to crack eventually. I didn't think the bracing was needed during fabrication, but I guess I was wrong.

So I had to make some braces and to keep from welding on the cage, I did a clam shell arrangement and used panel adhesive to attach the supports to the cage.

Very nice work!
Thanks for sharing.

On par or above any build I’ve seen. Thanks for sharing. It’s nice to see quality work like this and how it’s done.

I think you chose the best color out of the renderings and you nailed the stance.

Is that a radial rear tire and what size? What rear diff ratio?