This was my first car built off the frame. It started with a basket-case 67 coupe in Rhode Island. As most find out, once you start peeling away the onion you find rust. All new floors, a rocker, the mini tubs and shock tower kept me busy through the first winter. Since my son (John) and I were tackling all the metal work, we had the luxury of really taking our time to get it right. It probably took me four times longer than the pros, but the experience was priceless. The relationships you develop along the way are also priceless. Kyle and Stacy Tucker at DSE were incredibly helpful, considering I had tons of technical questions for them. Following the metal work, I needed to fit the sheet metal and paint the car. The whole front clip is all NOS sheet metal and I even found an NOS door shell. The car was moved to Yonkers where I was lucky enough to become friends with an unbelievable body guy, Adolfo Carril. He allowed me to work with him and taught me so much about the whole process of working metal and body work. Once the shell was painted, we had a ton of work to re-assemble the car. It really seemed overwhelming, especially when you sit in front of the TV and watch Chip Foose and his crew breeze through it in 7 days. We basically did the final welding of the upper shock mounts and perches to set the pinion angle, installed all new glass and interior, among many other things. And I can't leave out the wife who probably still has a stiff neck from spending three nights stretching the headliner before finally gluing it in place - it's got to be the worst job there is in a car build. Everything is new, it's even got that new car smell when you climb in. I need to roughly set the toe and camber to get it to a front end machine and then I can finally take it out for its first drive. It sounds mean.

DSE- Mini tubs, upper shock crossmember, rear koni shocks, offset shackles, 3" drop leafs , perches, shock plates
DSE- coil over conversion, koni front shocks with afco 650lbs springs, tubular upper and lower control arms, Delrin bushings, tubular tie rod adjusters
DSE- solid body mount bushings, subframe connectors , DSE supplied Hotchkis front sway bar,
DSE- 600 steering gear,
DSE - stainless steel narrowed fuel tank/ sending unit
Budnik Fontana wheels 17X 8 and 17x 11
BFG- 245s and 315s g-force kdw
Baer track front brakes 13" w/ zinc washed slotted and cross drilled rotors, Baer sport disks in back
Bill Mitchel 427 cuin small block
Tremec TKO-600, mcleod clutch
Moser narrowed 12 bolt 3.73 eaton posi w/ford ends
Ron Davis radiator with integrated overflow tank and dual fans, zoops pulleys
Stainless Works full 3" stainless exhaust system
Hydratech hydroboost
Airomotive a-1000 fuel system
AAW- classic update series wire harness
Budnik steering wheel and factory tilt column
Covans dash with full autometer guages
corbeau trs leather seats
Crow belts
Dennys drive shaft
Marquez 427 billet cid emblems
almost every part of the car was replaced using Ricks first generation
Paint code 34 1992 chevy truck, a couple shades darker than emerald turquoise