******* perfection

Thanks Guys. This car was a ton of fun. For a few reasons, The customer is a good guy. Not only did I get to build him a cool car, but I also gained a new Friend. 2nd is that he has pretty good taste.

This new project we are cranking on is going to be pretty awesome.

Great work! Looks amazing and inspiring for those of us still building

Lets try this again. I put up all these pictures a few weeks ago then due to what ever malfunction we lost like 8 days of posts.

The Fairway Chevrolet 1970 Chevelle has been all over the magazines lately. We got a cover spot on Popular Hot Rodding this month, Maximun Drive ran a feature on the car and a few weeks ago we were invited to do the Hot Rod Magazine Flog test for the vehicle. More on the flog test next.

Here is a link to the complete article.
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Here are a few pics from the photoshoot I found on the internet.
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Some pics of the Maximun Drive article. This magazinec an be found where they sell Street Trucks. It's pretty cool. Sorry for the crappy pictures but these were taken by my cell phone in my back yard to show the customer when he was in Detroit a few weeks ago.

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In September of last year when the Goodguys road tour came through town Jesse Kiser of Hot rod Magazine saw the car and invited us to participate in the flog test. He thought the car had the perfect stance but wanted to know if it worked at that ride height. I assured him it did.

Well fast forward to March when they finally got the dates and time nailed down. The Flog test would cover 3 days all over California. Monday of the test week would be at the Westech Dyno out in Fontana/Pomona area. Tuesday would be run at Willow Springs on the road course and skid pad. Thursday we would run the car down the drag strip in Fontana.

So on Monday I got in the cat at 4am to leave Bakersfield. I drove the car straight down I5 to the 210 all the way out to Westech. Its very had to do the speed limit or less in this car but I still managed 20 mpg at 80mph.
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The car managed to put 570 hp and torque down to the ground on the dyno. I was expecting 470 to the ground but apparently GM under rates this crate engine just a little. They had to drop the air pressure on the rear tires to get the power to hold on the big rollers at the low RPM roll in. That blower gets going pretty fast.

On Tueaday I did not have to get up at O'dark thirty like I did the day before but I still left the shop at 5:45 for the 80 mile cruise to Willow Springs. I was the first to arrive in hopes of getting the early morning feature photos out of the way. I had never been to Willow Springs but that is a very nice facility.

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Some over the shoulder Feature shots from Wes Alison.
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The flog test was not a race as much as just 10 different articles comparing 9 cars against a base line set but an 850 hp Mustang Super Snake. There was a very broad variety of cars, 32 fords, 70 cuda, 67 firebird convertible, Newman Car Creations 57 Chevrolet with L.L. green wheels and a C-10 truck. It was funny the cars that drove to the event performed the best and the trailer queens had a few issues. I think Kyle Newman and I were the only ones to not do a thing to our cars.
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Micheal Essa who is a Drifting super star did all the driving comparison for every ones car on the skid pad, slalom, and road course.
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I was more then pleased with the results of our car. This car is not intended to be a race car super star but just an actual pro-touring car. It hauls ass and gets great mileage and handles great for a car that has zero testing beyond the seat of the pants adjustments to the Ridetech Triple adjustable coilovers. There was a fully prepped new body style mustang and I hope for his sake he was not out performed by any of the OLD IRON.

On Thursday we did not have to be to Fontana until 12 noon so I got some much needed sleep and got some work done before driving the car south thru LA Fontana to run it down the strip. I knew the car would do pretty well at this event since it had the 2nd highest horsepower rating.

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The car wound up running a best pass of 3 at a 12.50 at 115 mph. The Super Snake with 850 hp only managed a 12.00. Every other car was in the 13's. I did not change the tire pressure and after the passes I got back in the car and drove it home. Knocking down 20mpg.

Man I love this car. Its so much fun to drive and gets so much attention. Thank you to Fairway Chevrolet for letting us work on a 2nd car for you and we are excited about the progress going on the 3rd.

Here is a sneak peak at what we currently have going.

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#SLEEPER

one piece door glass for the '55....

Looking forward to seeing more on this build!!!!


--Eric

Who is doing your concept renderings now?

We have discussed that but with the major body mods on this car we want the car to still look fairly stock even though we sectioned that car. We think the wing windows will help carry the vibe we are looking for.

This one will be bad with a 1000hp chevrolet crate engine.


Eric Black

We don't do alot of the renderings but we are trying to dial in the look of the One Off wheels that Evod is doing. This is just a prelim drawing.

The car looks great. 20 mpg on the hwy and a 12.5 at the dragstrip makes for one hell of a Pt car.:thumbsup:

It looks like you guys ran Clockwise at Street of willow. What kind of times did the car run on that course?

Thanks Rob

They did not tell us and had some funk way they were calculating the track times. I think they obviously want to keep some of the results.

The professional shoe said the car was a lot more capable on the track then the seat was for keeping him in it. But he said the car turned in alot better then any muscle car he had ever driven did.

Whatever all at that means.

The guys From Hot Rod thought I might be bringing the vinyl top and fender trim back into style.

I've said it before and I'll say it again.
I LOVE that Chevelle. :thumbsup:

Like I Said to you the other night- I see this car everywhere insta,Facebook,even when I sleep!!! And now here.... Lol This is the direction I'm going with my 70 minus vinyl top.Love this car,the color inside n out and the stance well it's just best I've seen on a Chevelle.

Whackin' a section out of that '55 should get you some extra mpg's.

lol


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That Chevelle is the nicest I've ever seen, I wouldn't change a thing on it.

Can't wait to see what you guys do with the 55.

Rodger congrat's on building a Perfect Pro-Touring car. It look's awesome,like GM design it.And it drive's & performs like a new corvette.1st.Class build.:trophy-1302:

Awesome Chevelle!

Love the '55, really looking forward to seeing the build!

Thanks guys. This project was fun in the fact that really could not change anything on the outside of the project. Just the stance and interior. So we put a ton of effort into the stance to make it killer. The 19" front wheel is 295mm wide and turns nearly lock to lock without interference. At the last 1/8 inch of turn it rubs the sway bar but nothing else. But the work it took to get that 19" front wheel at this height was a ton. But I really think that is what makes this car look so good. The car looks to be alot lower then it actually is. Which is what sets it apart from some many of the others.

Everyone always wants to know whose a arm package we installed and you tell them we took our prototype version of the 68-72 chevelle chassis and did lot more work to hid the frame and suck it up closer to the body and the modified the body accordingly for the look we wanted and the built a bunch of trick stuff to make it cool.

Thanks again guys. But these cool cars are not really a result of us but the customers who allow us to go as far as we went with this car for these results. The bills have to be paid before anything cool can be built.

Fairway Chevrolet in Las Vegas is a great place to buy cars or crate engines.

I'm very pleased with how this picture came out for the Cover of Hot Rod Magazine. Check it out in the next few months.

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Awesome shot...

And even more awesome car. :thumbsup:

Awesome picture of a sweet ride.

Wow, just read this from start to finish in one sitting. Love everything about this car, its so tastefully done.

Will keep an eye out for any more builds you do for further inspiration!

Thank you very much. We just try as hard as we can on each project and seem to have good success.

Did I see this car all stickered up ready to go to the big dance?? Congratulations on yet another acknowledgement of a kick ass car!

You know, you've got to do better than Joe and his pinto....careful, it's a sleeper!

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Dan

Yeah we got invited to the big dance. I hope we did well enough to be invited back some other time. I have been racing on dirt in a few different forms for a few years and the customer raced off road desert stuff for like 25 years. We had a great time and the event motivated the customer to want to make some changes from the street car it was intended to be to the a car we may autocross more next year and participate in some track events next year.

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Congrats

Congrats!
I love that car.

Car was gorgeous in person.

Thanks Todd, its just patina when the paint job is 16 years old.