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well, the 55 chevy my dad and i have been building is pretty much done. waiting for one of the tail light bezels to come back from the chrome plater, and the front end needs to be lined up. after that, she'll be on her way home, and we'll be on to the next one. well...........two actually.

One word AWESOME

All that work and you couldn't upgrade those cheesy paper floor mats?

Nice work, very nice!

Nice looking car!

Great car! Smells very "two lane blacktop" and that's a really really nice job on the rear wheel arches! I like the look of cut wheel arches on a tri five, usually they don't have nearly the class of yours though.

Halgar wrote:All that work and you couldn't upgrade those cheesy paper floor mats?

our last name isn't FOOSE, ya know. paper is just fine.

Two words....

BAD ASS!!!

scr8p wrote: and we'll be on to the next one. well...........two actually. :

How about three?

I love the Gaser look! Looks awesome.

thanks guys.

PBR Allstar wrote:Great car! Smells very "two lane blacktop" and that's a really really nice job on the rear wheel arches!

that's what the guy wanted. not a replica, but something along the same lines as the tlb 55.

the quater panels are full reproduction 55 nomad quarters. since it needed quaters anyway, we just got those. that way we didn't have to mess around radiusing the wheel wells.

i'm still thinking that would be a killer color on my firebird.

cool car dude.

How much is 110 Octane these days?

JPAE07 wrote:How much is 110 Octane these days?

i don't think i'd want to know for sure. gotta be $7-8 a gal.

this things setup to run on pump gas, which is expensive enough. steppin' on the gas is like flushin' a toilet.

but there's no replacement for cubic inch displacement (502)

scr8p wrote:but there's no replacement for cubic inch displacement (502)

I'd have to agree with that! Back in the day, it was all about MUSCLE! Now it's all about technology, not that there's anything wrong with that.

Halgar wrote:Now it's all about technology, not that there's anything wrong with that.

sure there is. try to figure out whats wrong with your car without thousands of dollars in diagnostic equipment when it's not running right.

i friggin' HATE new cars. all of them. except the dodge challenger.

scr8p wrote:thanks guys.

PBR Allstar wrote:Great car! Smells very "two lane blacktop" and that's a really really nice job on the rear wheel arches!

that's what the guy wanted. not a replica, but something along the same lines as the tlb 55.

the quater panels are full reproduction 55 nomad quarters. since it needed quaters anyway, we just got those. that way we didn't have to mess around radiusing the wheel wells.

Now that made me go look it up, never noticed the difference between the standard and nomad rear wheel arches, but now I see it. very clever, probably why it looks so subtle.