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In this Discussion
- 46HudsonPU December 2005
- 66patrick66 December 2005
- hemiEssex December 2005
- jsrail December 2005
- rambos_ride December 2005
1936 Terraplane 'Rod' Build -
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I get wood just looking at it!! Turn it off, turn it offfff!!!
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Beautiful work - can't say I like the color - but the work speaks for itself! Well done!
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Couldn't agree more! I especially like the fact that they only did 'minor' modifications to the body.rambos_ride wrote:Beautiful work - can't say I like the color - but the work speaks for itself! Well done!
- Quoted from the site -"The Texas based owner of this car commissioned the Guild to build him a reliable custom car which could easily be serviced, but still be cutting edge.To this end we decided to use the omnipotent Viper engine and driveline, marry it to the famous Ford nine inch rear end and grace the in house designed chassis with the wonderful Terraplane body. We are not altering the body substantially as sometimes an artist needs to know when something really can't be improved on by altering it drastically. The custom touches added to a timeless body design will be dramatic and the colour which will be custom blended and mixed in house will further serve to make this a significant and press worthy icon of modern Hot Rodding."- I am TOTALLY amazed that they could squeeze that much engine under the hood, and still keep the original sheet metal and lines - from appearances 'uninterrupted'. Unless you 'pop' the hood (or hear it), you'd never know there was that much engine under the hood.- The exhaust has been very well thought-out and placed, and looks good coming out just in front of the rear wheels, although I am not too sure about how it appears to displace part of the running boards - sort of interrupts the 'flow'...- See the custom radiator? Appears to have the traditional/old look, but is modern - hopefully with enough 'flow' to cool the 'beast'...Hopefully, this will get driven & is not a 'trailer queen'... From what I have read, it may be - When I checked it's status, it was in for paint touch-up...Any thoughts on that Ford 9" rear? Will that & the suspension hold up to that type of power?While there was obviously 'mega-bucks' put into this ride, I would say that the $$ was not 'thrown' at it... -
There's no reason a built up 9" wouldn't hold up to that motor - folks have been drag racing with the ubiquitous rear end for 40 years or more and with even more hp than the viper motor puts out.46HudsonPU wrote:...Hopefully, this will get driven & is not a 'trailer queen'... From what I have read, it may be - When I checked it's status, it was in for paint touch-up...Any thoughts on that Ford 9" rear? Will that & the suspension hold up to that type of power?
While there was obviously 'mega-bucks' put into this ride, I would say that the $$ was not 'thrown' at it...
I'd estimate this was an 120-150k build minimum. The crate motor and trans alone are probably 20k or more. Custom designed and built frame and squeezing it all inside there takes a lot of time.
If they had only 2000 hours into it (I would be surprised it's probably substantially more) even at a modest shop rate of 60.00 an hour (I don't know what they charge...) thats 120k in labor alone...
The hand built car Chip Foose won the Riddler award at the Detroit Auto Show had 5 years and 7000+ man hours into it! At 75.00 and hour (Chip's advertised rate on "Rides") thats a whopping 525 THOUSAND just in labor! -
I WANT IT!!! I WANT IT!!! I WANT IT!!! That car is making me violate at least four of the Ten Commandments right now! Damn, that is sweet! A Mopar-powered Terraplane rod! Big woodie!
I like that color, personally! Pearl mauve with gold engine compartment - WAY better and more original thought than the "me-too" red rods out there!"The time has come", the Walrus said, "to speak of many things. Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings. And why the sea is boiling hot,
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A beautiful machine for sure! Wish I had the bucks for that drivetrain! Definately something you wouldn't see just anywhere. I wonder if he's going to run rear skirts? Personally I think I would run wider tires in the rear to fill up the space unless I ran skirts and it was lowered and harder to see the tires. Just a personal preference.
Now, as my father would have said "if I had that car...and he had a feather up his arse....we'd both be tickled!" lol (just a joke, in case the owner is on this board)
But, hats off to this car and its owner and builder.
Jay
