philobeddo
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whats up builders? Hey fella's,been scanning sites for yrs and RRR seems to me the best site for info on doing what we do and love.So I have become a member.I live in north TX and am a fabricator for a municipality.I design/fab everything from custom railings to stairs to pond drain covers to special tools ,anti theft devices on sports field light poles,buildings etc.Weird stuff that nobody makes most of the time.I dabbled in art,oil painting ,sculptures for yrs and once I got into fab/design all that energy went to that alone.My Dad was a mechanic/parts man for GM for most of his life.I have always loved cars/trucks and working on them.I started my first build in 08 (3 yrs to complete) on a 51 3100 set on a 70 Cutlass sedan chassis with 455/TH 400.I sold it on E-BAY in may of 2011 and told myself and wife no more builds for a while,well,here we go again.A month later I got an idea stuck in my head of a vette chassis with a old truck body chopped and shortened to fit the narrowed vette frame.I thought how cool would it be to have that rat rod look but around town and on the the highway it would handle like a vette dicing in and out of traffic with people thinking "what the heck was that?".I wanted to keep the vette chassis as close to factory for handling as I could.So I kept the stock length and geometry and narrowed it to accept the 53 cab.I purchased an 84 vette some kid was selling that his Dad built for him with 335 SB .It has alot of good internals and was built to race around town(alum intake,rollers,edelbrock carb,billit dist,headers etc). Kid said it was scary fast.I like doing something different,non traditional,something nobody has done yet,I'm just weird that way I guess.I then bought a 53 chevy 3100 to put on the vette chassis.It has really been a challenge so far and I hope I can get some good idea's /input from you guys.This only my second build so I'm still learning.Got a couple questions, Does anyone have a preference on build your own header kits? Is there one you guys like ?Also I moved the firewall back 4'' to move the cab forward and the master cyl/booster is going to be a trick.It will have to be mounted on the firewall,under the floor is not an option.Is there a brake/pedal assembly you guys like for underdash install? Sorry for a long intro,just had rotator cuff surgery so the combination of time at home and pain meds could be the culprit for this painful intro.I have attached some pics,still along way to go so......My builds/albums are on photobucket http://s1132.photobucket.com/albums/m579/51c/84 vette vs 53 chevy bobber rat rod truck/ Thanks Fella's...If the link does'nt work just type in 51c under search on photobucket and you can see my cut/chop projects.....
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