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Tom's
car is like the saying "It's like
a zoot suit with a drape shape... an dreet
pleats"? Tom's interior is made up
of all reet commssioned by Dan Miller
to fill it up with 600 3/4-inch carmine
red pleats that are spread around the
front seat, door panels, kick panels,
firewall, and rumble seat area with a
Hurst shifter attaches to an M-20 trans. |
From
pleats to panels and instead of tuck 'n'
roll, Mark's Ron Mangus-sculptured interior
is a study in leather and tweed simplicity,
and the same sever styling carried under
the decklid, too. Pinstripes on the beltline
are the same color as the interior. A
Lokar shifter mounts to a polished Turbo
400 tranny. |
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Super-trad
styling dominates the front of TOm's high-boy.
the stock grille shell has been filled
and peaked and convered with a black base
of Sikkens paint and sprayed with red,
orange, and yellow flames. A U-shaped,
combo, tube nerf/headlight bar wraps around
the grille shell and supports both 8-inch
Deist headlights and Harley-Davidson turn
signal indicators. |
Mark's
land speed swoopy look was acheived y
sectioning the 'glass grille shell 4 inches
and narrowing it 3/4 inch. Jack White
of El Cajon, California, was responsible
for spraying on the rod's PPG Concept
1000 Sky White paint, while Dan Fink built
this custom aluminum grille insert. But
as the case was with Tom, Mark chose 8-inch
Deist headlights to grace the front end
of his '32. |
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Bells
and Whistles anyone? Well there are plenty
of them here with Tom's completely detailed
engine compartment in a late-'50s motif.
The finned coil and oil filter canister,
then shift your eyes down to the bottom
of the steering column for some more fins.
Polished and painted Offy finned aluminum
rocker covers are used in conjustion with
an Offy three-port intake manifold. The
intake retains three Rochester two-barrel
carbs capped by htree equally anchient
Hellings and Stellings
air cleaners. |
Mark
decided to go low-key, but high-powered
under the hood. The light-gray block makes
a subtle contrast against the white firewall
and hood, while the polished radiator,
aluminum heads, water pump, Street Performance
aluminum rocker covers, billet air cleaner,
plus all teh chromed goodies provide the
needed sparkle. One of Mark's better ideas
was to install an automatic Halon 1301
on-board-fire-extinguishing system, seen
just behind the distributor. |
Thanks to Rod and Custom's writer Gray Baskerville
for creating this write up on these two genuine
cars.
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