a short cruise in a Hemi powered Model A coupe - open headers FTW

[HotRodKid]

video at the bottom

@dead end cruisers

Jimmy told me that it’s about 9 years ago that he built the car. When he found the car at Royal Foust in Riverside , it looked a lot different. It used to be black with red flames and it had wide whites all around.

The grey primered Model A body, with gasser style, blue lexan windows, is mounted on a '37 – '41 Ford chassis which is shortened, narrowed, boxed and Z’d in the rear. A straight axle is mounted up front and is from the same era as the chassis. Jimmy replaced the split-wishbone suspension in the back for So-Cal Speedshop hairpins.

The Hemi powerplant was already in it, but it had different exhaust manifolds and only two Stromberg 97’s. All that has changed, it now has open headers and runs 6 rebuilt Stromberg 97’s on top of a Weiand Drag Star intake manifold. The headers that are mounted now are made by Jimmy, about 3 or 4 years ago he told me.

The block is an early 331cui that is bored 0.125 inches by Reath Automotive. The heads are 354 industrial pieces. The valves are original ones, which are actuated by an original Sig Erson top fuel solid lifter cam, which is reground by Clay Smith. Further, the motor runs a stock crank on which Jahns pistons with a 10.5:1 compression are mounted.

All this is backed by a McLeod clutch and an early cast iron Borg Warner T-10 transmission, a custom Unitrax driveshaft and a tri-year Chevy rearend. 8 Inch Hurst cheaterslicks on '49 Chevy steelies bring the power to the road and up front Good Year Speedgrips can be found on Halibrand spindle-mount wheels.

Do you see any front brakes…? Nope….!

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[Anonymity]

i would like one of them

[psphinx81]

so awesome

[Jskrapper]

cool as hell. :tup:

[Freek]

definatley not a DD lol … a fun crusier and an actual real hemi

[JaysGreenLX]

That is good times. I would so love to build something like that.

[SoloIIscoob]

whats really weird, i was just listening to that CD-White Zombie; Astrocreep 3000(i think thats the name of it)…and was like that would be a good vid. intro…
sick hemi dude!