LA- Lower Alabama

UCLA-Upper Corner of Lower Alabama

Don't forget East LA. :lol:

thats a funny song by David allen Cole

Do you know Milton Robson? I bought his old house..he's a pontiac guy..has lots of stuff but he really likes ponchos..69Ram Air III Trans Am Convt 4 speed...69 RAIV judge..triple black 4 speed convt..the same in a 70 Convt it's blue..61 Bubble top Ventura..421 2X4's 8 lugs hard back buckets..over the counter super duty stuff..62 super duty Pontiac catalina... 62 super duty 4 speed Grand Prix..etc. etc. if you come to the experience, we're just 12 minutes away

we both lost the lead in our pencils before that sucker hit 10% of the purchase price..remember I told you.. you would have to hock your entire collection to buy that puppy..you could shuttle Mexicans across the border and pay for it though..you've got expensive taste..

Bob, Milt lives in Gainesville, Ga. still doesn't he? And he has a great Pontiac collection, just awesome.

don't you be talking about Jimmy Carter and Marchin Luther like that..we's proud of our heritage..I'm thinking about going to New Orleans as soon as ol Ray gets everything straightened out..like I said..if i were born black..I'd burn your ears off..and your wife's *** to boot..had a black guy that worked with me..died of a headache because he refused to pick the cotton out of an aspirin bottle..they're putting a new top on the superdome..it looks like the foil on a Hersheys kiss..gonna change the name to the chocolate dome..Ol Ray has got some kind of Vision..

he just lives 2 miles from me..I bought his old house

looks like it's gonna be nice..we're gonna put you in one of those funny white coats that hold your arms if you get into my league..you're beyond losing it by then

:eek: :lol:

Jody

Gainesville will be a regular hangout for me for the next 4 years, Daughter just accepted an academic/athletic scholarship to Brenau (sp).

come by and see Milton and I when you're around..

Bob

I'd love to come by and visit sometime. By the way my daughter said instead of a new car for college, could she just have my 69 Z-28 instead.

She was serious, LOL

so what are you going to drive now? :unibrow: :rofl: she got a scholarship, look at what you're saving

I currently have her convinced that we are poor and she will have to drive whatever we can slide under her butt for free. I do know that I will have to pony up some thing. I think I will give her the only Ford in the family, The wife's Eddie Bauer Expedition. THEN, I can get the wife something really cool to drive(If you know what I mean). :D

The Family Truckster Days are about to END!!!

hope she doesn't drive as much as my wife and girls..the Expedition will break you..do they have dorms for Brenau?

Yes, very secure private dorms. I really like it. It has a multitude of campus and gainesville city police. It is a private womens college and its a very good thing shes gettin' a full ride. I'd rather she was driving a tank than some ricer car or equivalent.Oh and she drives the tires off of her Jeep. Shes a terrific sitter(if yours are that young) if you and the wife ever need one. She is majoring in early childhood development and wishes to teach and coach Volleyball. Strait A student, super athelete, focused and driven.There may be a chance we are not related! I have become a lazy bastard lately when it comes to my cars lately and she puts me to shame.


Youth is so wasted on the young.

I thought I heard they were opening Brenau up to guys now..downtown Gainesville is very nice..the old homes there are beautiful..I imagine she'll be going over to Athens to have a good time..hop,skip, and a jump away..I guess you'll be over here for the Year One Experience

Bob, do you have any build pics and tech info on the Cuda that I could include on your Cuda page?

https://lateral-g.net/johnsoncuda

Only for weekend classes on the guys thing, and yes Gainesville is a beautiful old town. And yes she'll figure it all out within hours of being there. Oh and yes, I'll be over there for the Year One experience for sure. Hope to see you on one of these many trips I'll be taking there.

How can you be ever bored with a shop like that :wow: ????

Can you tell me what are you milling in this picture? Molds of the intake air system?

Your cuda is absolutely fantastic!!

that's not Alan posting the pictures. He never has time to get bored. He's under the gun constantly trying to get a project finished. He works 80 or so hours per week. What the picture shows is him milling the aluminum plate that is going to be the firewall. He also milled aluminum plate for the front and rear engine mounts. The acessories all mount to the front engine plate ie power steering, alternator, airconditioning compressor.. they all had similar designs on them...the rear motor plate flushed up to the bottom of the firewall so it looks like one piece. Alan is hotrodbuilder

I'll try to get Alan over here and follow this thread. He's got tons of pictures..We want the April issue of PHR to get out before we post much. They have about 16 pages of info on the Cuda in April's issue..it should be out in about 2 weeks. We just got in the new Centerforce dual disc clutch with an Aluminum Flywheel and pressure plate..Supertrick..we were going to run a single disc 11 inch clutch but the starter ring on the flywheel wouldn't clear the inside of the rear drive dragster can we are using..10.5' single wouldn't hold the power..We also got in the Rockland gear prepared T56 6 speed trans and the Transaxle rear that they prepared. Should hold over 1,000 h.p. Going to be interesting to see how much power and torque the motor makes with fuel injection vs what it made with the demon carb and Indy Cylinder intake. We are going to put a 3 or 4 stage nitrous set up on it too..We're getting it set up for Maxton on April 1..I think Troy and Poteet are going to have their Cuda up there too..1200+H.P. 4 cylinder turbo charged Hemi..very trick

You can't see all the equipment Alan has in his shop..he's got a ton of metal shaping equipment..ie english wheels, planishing hammers, big Yoder Hammer etc. He does everything that needs to be done to a hot rod. He doesn't like to sub anything out except the interiors to Paul Atkins who is just down the road... we really appreciate your compliments.

No problem, I can certainly wait. That's an incredible car that you guys put together. It was easily THE car of SEMA.

Definitely keep us posted on the motor. That sounds awesome. :thumbsup:

you ought to put the word out on this site about Maxton. Hot Rod Magazine is going to be over there to cover it. They came over last year and I took my Rambler Wagon up there. They won't let you run but 135 without a cage. They were a little surprised when the Rambler busted 135 before I reached 1/2 track..I had to pedal it the rest of the way. Ran 140 the second pass and they got a little ill..One guy in a C5 vette ran 185 on a 150 limit..They immediately escorted him out of there..It's a good time..a Firebird also ran in the mid 180's. Takes a lot of safety stuff to be OK'd to run that fast. Speeds run there also count as qualifying at Bonneville and the dry lakes..It'd be nice to see the event grow..

When is Maxton 2006? I know in 2005 it was the last weekend of April. I bet that's an AWESOME event to attend.

It's usually the last week-end in the month..but the first run is April 1st week-end..then goes to the last week-end of month,,Go to ECTA... East Coast Timing Assoc...on google....there are 6 or so events each season

Hey Bob -
I'm very interested to see how your transmission holds up under that kind of torque and Nitrous hit. Manual transmissions are awesome, but have been kind of marginal in many high horsepower/traction applications. I looked into Rockland for the T56 and decided to try a TKO600 built by Promotion Performance. I hope to see these gearboxes hold up. Please keep me posted. Also, sounds like you will have a ball at Maxton.

don't plan to use the nitrous until 6th gear.. maybe 5th..it's staged, so not hitting it all at once..100hp per stage probably..

i run a 399 lt1 with a 2 stage nitrous set-up.and t-56,it's been 9's and havent hurt it.

We're using a LM series Center Force set up..Aluminum Flywheel..Aluminum pressure plate..dual disc clutch..not a lot of rotating mass..we're not going to be putting real sticky tires on it either..hopefully it will not break anything..I was more concerned with the clutch until we went dual disc..seems like these cars are bad to tear out clutches..

i didnt know centerforce did any daul disc stuff,i had a street twin dual disc from mcleod,it was nothing but a problem and trying to talk to any there was impossible,so went with a spec.good luck.bob do own alan johnson old 32 coupe with the sb2 head motor.

Spec is in Alabama and a good friend of ours works there. We were going to run their stuff but they don't make a flywheel. We decided on Centerforce because they were so energetic and enthusiastic about what we were doing. They haven't done any dual disc clutches for quite a while. Our direct drive dragster can scattershield was supposedly good for an eleven inch clutch and flywheel..it did, but not with a starter ring..we used this set up because we could run a driveshaft instead of a torque tube..We had to go down to 10.5" which everyone felt wasn't big enough to hold the power with a single disc..So Centerforce made the dual disc set-up for us. Did you try to get on the techline with Mcleod and talk to Red Farmer the owner? He is always very responsive to problems and available 2 times for a few hours each time daily. What problems did you have with the dual disc set-up. I would have preferred to have used the 11" set up with a single disc but it wouldn't fit. Simpler is better in most cases. We are going to put a picture of the new clutch on here. Doug Cooper from Long Island bought Alan's 32 at Barrett Jackson a few years ago. Since then he also bought my Battle Axe 69 Camaro, and the 33 blue Roadster Alan built that was hot rod of the year in 98 or so. Alan is also building him a 32 B400 sedan convt. He is also contemplating building a 69 Camaro the quality of my Cuda. Doug post on Pro-Touring under Coopercarz.

my mcleod kept eating the disc's,i went called them they told me it installed wrong so bought the stuff to rebuild it,did it again ,called same story bought a disc set,then sold it.it took me forever to get there tech guy.i ran a single disc before i went to the 399 ,it worked great,the guy i sold the daul disc has had no problems at all that was a year ago.dumb luck i guess.

alans 32 was the coolest 32 i ever seen.

I agree on his 32..I also like the 5 window all steel 32 he built for a customer..it looked just like his car but it was a 5 window and had a big block. He's building the same guy a 32 Vicky with a 514 Ford. Bill owned both cars for years..The vicky is going to be extremely bad as*

what tire are you going to run on the rear to hook that thing up at mid track to keep from turning the tires in high gear? :_paranoid

not sure yet..on street we have the 335x30x20's Michelin that come on the Porsche Carrera GT..for competition, not sure yet..got to find a tire wheel combo that will work best..BBS is in our backyard and most likely will make the wheels for us..car is going to have 50 +% of weight over rear wheels ..probably 3,000 lbs. total wt.

Are you going to run a dry nitrous system? Or some sort of direct port wet?

direct port..it's plumbed under the intake..Hogan welded in the bungs when he built the intake..the regular injector nozzles are under there too..out of site where they don't distract from the look,,we've got to have that clean uncluttered look