Yeah it does. My Dad painted his 50 Chevy truck Petty blue(since thats our last name) and it looks just like that. I bet there is a little diffrence under sun light.

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guys

this car looks pro built....IT IS SOOOOO DETAILED...
after being lucky enough to see the car in person YESTERDAY....i had to shoot pics....
this is as good as it gets in the conditions " inside with bad lighting"..SORRY

1 JOHN PARSONS+1 HOME GARAGE =II MUCH ...... :hail: ..AMAZING WORK JOHN

DINNER WAS FUN.....

RADRAMBLER

Wow, John, your photography is fantastic. :bow:

The man behind the car.
It's pretty easy to get carried away heaping praise on people for the car they have built or even the wheels they bought, but John deserves it for being a a genuinely decent guy. Nice work John.
Can't wait to see what he builds next.


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Congrats John!! The car looks absolutely killer IMO. Been a long road - but worth the wait. Your fab skills are second to none. Much like everybody else I've been following the build up for sometime - it was almost a shame to cover up some of the work that went into II Much. Look forward to seeing some better pics.

Props again John....Great job!! :thumbsup:

Brent

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john u.

your correct.....john parsons is a great guy.....


tolls to johns house =$3.00
roundtrip from convention center to johns and back =1/4 tank of gas
dinner with steve, john and andrew @ pf changs = pricless

hey john......check your pockets for the keys.... :rofl: ..SORRY ANDREW
worked out ok though.....HEY, NICE SHOES :drool: .........

Just wow!
 

Thanks everyone! It means a lot to hear that you guys like the car. I've been working on it for over 6 years now, and I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that I'm (mostly, lol) done.

Sorry about the delay in photos, but security was tight. The guards took the "no photos except by Press" quite literally. I almost got Mike Norris' camera confiscated when I was taking pictures of my own car!

Many of you remember my first tentative technical questions, and then some of my fabrication photos, and my mistakes and corrections. It's been an incredible learning experience, and it has taken way way too much time (and money).

Most who saw it, liked it. People asked me if it was a Ford, or a Duster, or why I put such wide wheels on a drag car, or if I knew that one edge of trim was out of alignment (I did, thanks).

All in all, the best part of the show was renewing old aquaintances, and starting new ones. It's always cool to talk cars with others who care about them as much as me.

But anyway, now that the wraps are off, I can post more photos of the car. JohnU has tons of quality stuff he's taken over the past several years, and I have some stuff too.

thanks again!!!

jp

congrats John, very cool car. :thumbsup:


Jody

Very different, very cool. :thumbsup:

The car is one of those colors that is going to be difficult to photo and get it to come through true. Cameras lie, printing presses lie, computor monitors lie, so it will be hard at best. It IS NOT Petty blue, as I happen to have sprayed a volume of correct Petty blue for movie cars a few years back. It is a varient of the Petty blue, but much more pastel, subtle and sinister. And it positivly IS NOT baby blue. This thing looks like anything but a babies blanket. I will be the first to say when I saw spy shots of the car I was like, UGH! What did he do! But in person it is a cool color, and a fantastic indoor show color as it does not absorb a ton of light, which is a good thing.

But then again, a car like this, a color like this, is not intended to please everyone. It would not be cutting edge if it did not piss off a few people along the way. What II Much does very, very well is go to the edge, the very edge, without falling off the side of the cliff like so many other cutting edge cars that have debut recently.

Congrats again, John. It's a fantastic ride, you should be damn proud. It's amazing in every respect.

So, now the million dollar question is... what's next? :)

Armchair quarter back
 

Do you ever have anything positive to say......I dont come on here much but I can only hope for the day you actually post something yoiu have done so we can all take our turn picking it apart...

Anyway.....I dig The car john and I actually like color and applaud you for not painting it red or black. NICE WORK :thumbsup:

Again, AWESOME JP!! So how's the family like the final product? I bet the kids thought it was pretty cool having it at a indoor show! jp = rock star!! :hail:

[QUOTE=TravisB]Do you ever have anything positive to say......I dont come on here much but I can only hope for the day you actually post something yoiu have done so we can all take our turn picking it apart...



Thank you I just got on to say somethin about that.....My moto is dont talk Sh&* unless you got something to back it up with....and I dont think you got it G-bod........

Travis I praise more peoples rides than not you just notice the ones i actually say something about im not slamming anyones rides just stating the obvious, and voicing my opion, have you lost track of what this is a FORUM, or we could all be like you and hold peoples hands and say ohhhhhh love that car when you could just be honest, like me and about this sweet ride one its a nova :thumbsup: two its a chevy :thumbsup: three its amazingly engineered :thumbsup: four just dont like the color :wow: enough said

G-BODY i would love to hold your hand. :hail:
however you only had to say you did not like the color instead you mention it 2-3 times and go on to say how it could of been better, thanks but try again, usually its percieved better if you compliment someone first then say maybe what YOU would like better, not come out and slam a guy saying its the wrong color,(and never mention its your own opinion). this is a forum so i get my opinion too

Well chevy boy i do have it and and have a few of them, lol heres a few photos of my nova and would love to park next to you any day with it at a show! or by your Dads car lol and lets not get caried away hear, I love about every ride on here and every one has different build styles and tastes thats what makes every car unique just some people dont like critizisim and the point i make is im not slamming peoples cars just pointing out opions that sometimes most are afraid to speak about but on the whole! Who dosent like a cool lowered well handling car lol

WOW G BODY KILLER chekered flag on the door, thats so cool it looks as if it was just painted, and when was it done, like 1984???? do you have a mullet too??? oh great interior, looks great. oh did i mention the chekered flag was was to mulletish??

and yours is where?

Well bud take a look at this http://s60.photobucket.com/albums/h13/chevy2boy333/

See the one that had 3 mags???? How many has yours been in? that car has been in storage for 5 years .....The orange one That is mine...No photos out yet Because their is a big deduT but their are a couple tessers for ya...

quit bagging on John's car, I am so not in the mood! :D John, I love the car.

Jody

Great looking cars actually i think i do remeber seeing that Blue nova i beleive it was it Super Chevy indy! in the custom class The class that i Won! and as for mags been there done that isca yep that too and a room full of trophys! but all that aside! thats a bitchin little duece cant wait to see it done :thumbsup:

Im done here. Im not worryed about you I know what I have. and alot of others do too....
Im not stealing this post from john.....
Very sorry john great car I dig it you dig it....Its all good in the hood.lol
Ive been waiting a long time for this car to be done....Makes me want to do another chevy 2 like ours again...

What mags was it in? wasent it your buddy that owned that car?

Wasn't his name like jeff britton?

A difffernt color of car, different style of car, different type of guy, who else would spend six years of his life fabricating. LOL. Da, I think that was all part of the plan.

Excellent work! :hail: :bow: :wow: :thumbsup:

Now go spend time with your family and get rid of those circles under your eyes.

R.P.

yeah lets get back to II MUCH, killer mofo john, awesome work, you deserve all the praise you will receive. :thumbsup:

you obvisously do not know me that well I would be the first to piss on your hand if you stuck it out for me to hold. If I dont have anything nice to say I just dont say it. If the thread is of opinion nature I will add my thoughts but if not it is usually better to keep your mouth shut

Thanks Travis....
68protouring454 empty you pm box lol

Also looking at this bad Machine...I have decided to cut some coils out of the back springs to make it lower Thanks John!!!

Color
 

It's cool (good even) that some don't like the color.

Just keep in mind that the color you see on your computer isn't the actual color. The iffy lights really play tricks on the camera's light balance.

jp

Damn......... I see you really need to build a chevy around here well I guess its a good thing we are starting one.

No, it's the titanium hardware and brown wheels.

No need to defend or apologize for John's color choice. As you can see, his thought process went from the obvious choices of safe "people pleaser" shades of blue to a racy "how dare you!" final choice. One way or another, the color is designed to make people think.

The color, the wheels, the exposed hardware...all of these styling cues say: "Take your polished, shiny, filled-seam smoothster and shove it! I'm going racing." Obviously the color accomplished it's goal.

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Well, I think it is just one bad ass ride.
 

I am at the point now that shiny paint is cool and all, but show me some tricky stuff....and this one has plenty of tricky stuff.

I really like the blue, but to tell you the truth I would not care if it were pink or primer. The car and the workmanship speak for themselves.

Congrats on a great and extended build!

So are you goning to drive, show or sell it? Always the tough questions

Not sure how much you have driven it but did it turn out the way you wanted (driving wise)?

Wow! And I mean WOW!! I can't wait to see the whole thing, absolutely amazing!

One thing, did you fabricate the washers for the countersunk bolts, or are they available somewhere?

Shiny Side Up!
Bill
'72 442 "Inamorata"
www.FQuick.com/ProTouring442

John, I'd love to hear more about the motor. What all did you do to it? What are the specs?

John -
Comparing the two colors, glad you went with the one you did. It screams race, not show. Kind of a sinister look. If I was in a high horsepower car, I would be nervous if you pulled up next to me at a light...

Motor details
 

Scott, it's a 427 LSx, and it was built and dyno tested by Wegner Automotive Research. They do a few street motors a year, but their main work is NASCAR Busch lease program race motors. They are also producing very cool LSx front assembly sets. They alternator, ps, and water pump setup you see on mine is manufactured at their facility in Wisconsin.

The block is a sleeved LS2, 4.125 bore. The internals are all Lunati, with a 4" crank. Wegner supplied their CNC-ported LS6 heads (Manley valves, Comp valve springs). We tried some GM, Comp, and Lunati cams on the dyno, and the best combination was the Lunati Voodoo grind. The engine made 620hp at the flywheel at 6300 rpm, with 579 TQ at 5800. It's a torque monster, with plenty of power to 7000 rpm.

Intake is GMPP's carb-style manifold (developed by Wegner and licensed to GM), with a Holley 1000 CFM throttle body. Exhaust is my original headers, though updated to 1.75 / 32 in stainless by Stainless Works.

It's a long story, but the engine management is a FAST XFI, using an eDIST and their crank decoder. Mike Norris (nee Next Level Performance) did the tuning here in Orlando.

jp

Jp
 

John,
With every comment I have read here I cant believe what a great car you have built.The things you have told me about your "Design Committee" what a great bunch of friends you have also.In not one way did they steer you wrong.Fantastic craftmanship I am speechless......cant wait until June. :hail:


Chris Schulz

Very nice John. I've been waiting a long time to see this completed. Major Congrats! Personally, I love the color! On my computer it reminds me of Petty blue. Last time I checked, those Petty blue cars from the 60-80's were very fast.

Super nice job! Simply Awesome!