One of the more dreamworthy garages in the BangShift Forums belongs to “Hemi Joel” Nystrum. This isn’t a shock…Joel put a Factory Appearing Stock Tire car into the 10-second range first, and we’ve followed several of his projects, including the rebuild of the 420ci straight-eight out of his 1929 Duesenberg. The guy is as legit a speed freak as they get, and his latest attention grabber is this 1931 Plymouth hot rod, a clean, simple hot rod in all of the right senses. With a 392 Hemi hustling the Plymouth along and a no-BS look to it that has old-school hot rodding types foaming at the mouth in jealousy, the Plymouth harkens back to when all you needed to be cool was the right engine, a place to sit, and enough tire to put the power down. It’s a beautiful thing. It’s an even more beautiful thing when you get to go back five years and see where it all started from, with the car that he found back in 2003. It’s been an exercise in project creep, frustrations and of course, the wonderful world of automotive ADD that puts one project to the side in favor of another. But it’s now out, about and showing off, and be quite honest…you’d rock this thing seven ways from Sunday, wouldn’t you?
Click the link below and check out the entire build!
That is a badass Mopar street rod Joel!
Cool to see Joel gets front-page virtual ink. Great projects and I SO look forward to meeting him in the real world.
Dan
That is a hot rod, there is so much right about that car.
My hat is off to you Joel. You are what hot rodding is all about.
Thanks! Stay tuned, there’s still more to come.
What can I say?
A true Hemi powered hot rod and it takes me back to my childhood with its timeless looks.