We found the car in an old barn sitting on the original rusted out frame with a Chevy 305 engine sitting next to it. The roof had already been chopped, who ever chopped it didn't do a very good job. One other thing that was found with the car was a 1962 New York state registration.

I've attempted to repair the chop and it still needs some work to get it to look as it should in my book. the roof is currently chopped 5 inches. I channeled the body over the frame approximately 5 inches. The flooring is going to be reworked with 2 inch slats of chestnut wood. I built the entire car from the ground up with help from a good friend Jason Cartwright. The car took about one year to build and to be honest it's still getting more finishing items added as time goes on, in the end I'm hoping to have a really unique car.

The gauges are all matching vintage Stewart Warner gauges, these are to my knowledge called the custom line gauges, and in that line of gauges they were the twin blue style, popular in the 60's for both hot rods and boats, Ed "big daddy" Roth used them in many of his custom cars.

It took some work to come up with the Stewart Warner Custom Line gauges, searching high and low in order to obtain a complete set I've now got the look I was going for.

Lets see, the car started out with a used 305 Chevy engine of which I've since changed out with a 1965 Chevy 327 bored .40 over with a mild RV type cam and 202 heads. Feeding the vintage engine is a 3x2 Offenhauser intake with 3 Rochester carbs, I'm from Rochester so i think it's kind of cool. It still has an old used 350 turbo transmission and the plan with that is to send it to an old guy I know named Murry who will rebuild it and put in one of his own custom shift kits. During the rebuild of the transmission I plan on trying my hand at polishing it up and using Gibbs Brand oil on it to keep the shine.

A vintage engine like this 1965 corvette 327 makes for a nice power-plant

The rear end setup is a hairpin style setup with adjustable coil over shocks on a 12 bolt Chevy rear, that I'd like to change over to a vintage Oldsmobile or Pontiac at some point. The front suspension is split wishbones on a 40 Ford axle mounted suicide meaning if the front spring brakes I'm screwed, the front brakes are a disc setup from speedway although I'm considering changing over to a more old school setup. I've just ordered a set of artillery wheels from Rally America and plan on polishing them as well leaving a coating of Gibbs to see what happens to steel, the wheels I've ordered are vintage styled reproduction Firestone 15x5 in the front and 15x7 in the rear, I had to go with a skinnier rear wheel for the Coker white wall tires than I planned on using.

"If you want a really cool, fast ride you've got to build it yourself"

"The Scallops were a nice addition and believe it or not i did the entire paint job at my house in the drive-way"


"I've been in the US ARMY for 9 years now and served in both Iraq and Afghanistan, every time I go away I spend most of my free time dreaming up new ideas for cars to build. I've nearly got a half dozen cars built and stored away in my head at any given time".