(Photos by Wes Allison) – If that lead photo does not make you smile, you are in the wrong place. That’s hot rodding right there! Sure the engine probably does not make humongous power but it certainly makes more than it did stock! We kind of lose that these days, I say we like I am lumping everyone in but that’s not the case. Some of us lose that these days. In the times of being able to bolt technology onto your car that was OEM level (or better) just a few years ago, in the times of being able to make more than 1,000hp on what amount to factory parts, we forget that the roots of this thing were simply taking a car and making it better, no matter what it was.
Listen, there were guys who ran Hudsons in NHRA stock into the 1970s SUCCESSFULLY. Not because there was some whiz bang parts that they could bolt on but because there was a lot of thought and experimentation going on. Running 14s in a car that ran 19s (or slower) stock is awesome. We bet the guy who owns this car loves every second of standing on the gas and feeling the extra power that HE figured out how to make.
This guy is our hero, whoever he is!
What you wrote about that lead photo I agreed with. Then you spoiled it by including photo’s of vehicles that clearly had owners who drove into a junk yard and welded any old part any old place. ie… patina by numbers
Quite right – let’s see full details of the motor and what it is attached to. That would be far better than the patina’d junk yard fodder in the rest of the photos.
Love that Falcon wagon