Randal Johnson

I'm assuming that this guy hasn't picked up his 20s for his truck yet cause he hasn't brought me my wheels ... May have to go with plan B. Not real sure what plan B is yet ... Absolutely ... This is done !!! Awesome looking "old school" floor shifter at my house ready to go on the car !!! Thanks Mike !!! I will take and post pics this weekend !!!

Very nice enclosure build ... I like the ports. Hope this is done so I can get a demo in the next couple of weeks.

hows it goin Brother ??

Maybe this is why ...

I have absolutely NO interest in "Sound Labs" and "listening rooms". My interest is strictly Car Audio ... I have no acess to any of these ... So I will continue to learn about car audio using what I have to work with, that being "Car Audio" ... Why is that ?? Just out of curiosity ... How else are you suppost to enjoy car audio ?? I mean seriously ... What did you actually do while you were in those "sound labs" and "listening rooms" ??? Did you listen to them ????????? Then why are you wasting your time teaching people about car audio ?? If it's wrong in your eyes, I'm cool with that cause aparently NOTHING IN CAR AUDIO impresses you anyways ... YOU put Impious' name into your post, so I did not in way way quote him ... However, I think he has figured out that I would prefer to get out into the field and learn from the people that are into car audio ... Like Mark Eldrige, Steve Stern, Scott Buwalda, Todd Crowder, Robert Rayfield, Jimmy Walker, Kirk Proffit, Steve Cook, etc ... man this list goes on and on ... So Sean, Please forgive me when I would rather listen to people that gets out and enjoys the sport of car audio (like myself) rather than some one that is not impressed with car audio in any way and will not make any attempt to show up at atleast one car audio event and hang out with us, demo vehicles, or even cheer on your fellow SSA members ripping it up in SPL competition ...

And got the hood squared up and ready to go !!! With my dad supervising, and with the BIG help from my son and my cousin, This truck should be ready for paint soon !!! Then I can get to work on my car !!!

We worked on my truck all day Saturday getting it ready for paint ... No where done and ready for paint ... Still have the top (hail damage) to go ... But so far, All of this was done on one Saturday ... We Should have the top done next Saturday if everything goes according to plan ...

This is the direction I want to go with this car ... Eventually !!! But I must take baby steps. I do not have the budget to tear it all apart and build a practically bran new car ... I found these pics using Google ... looking at my car and then looking closely to these pics, you can tell that there is MASSIVE modification work done to the body of these cars !!! Some I plan to do to mine ... Like the frenched in head lights, going with 2 windows on each side instead of 4, body stance ... Many details !!! This weekend we had do most of the body work on my truck and get it ready for paint, so we didn't have time to work on the 49. Once the truck is done with a new paint job, Its open season on the 49 !!!

Thanks !!! Body work has already been started. She will be painted "plum crazy" purple ...Also, the plans are to put the absolute biggest wheels I can fit under her and get her as low to the ground as possible ... Just got to figure out what suspension setup we will go with when we start suspension upgrades ... We are mainly concentrating on interior / body modifications / repair first ...

Thank you brother ... Hoping to drive her down you way in October for Cruzin the Coast ... Then to Unified World Finals later that month ...

Thanks !!! Body work has already been started. She will be painted "plum crazy" purple ...

You mean a flathead V8? It has a flathead in it now. I do agree with you though. Lakepipes are the ONLY way to run a flathead V8, and IMO, is what this car should run. Beautiful ride! I just sold those bumper extensions a couple months ago. I happen to be a big fan of the baby moons and large whitewalls. Thanks man ... The exhaust setup that's on there now is surprisingly in great shape. I'm going to leave it "as is" for now ...

I think that color would look really good on that car. Thank you guys !!!

No cutouts needed because this will be a street cruizer ... Not a race car of any kind.Now for the pipes, if it was a flat 8 ... There would be no question about straight 2.5" dual exhaust. But with this a flat 6, not sure how it would sound ... But I am thinking about installing a Y pipe and running dual 2.5" pipes with old school glass packs installed just before the rear end and 90'd out after the rear tires ... Similar to my truck ...

Thank you Sir !!!I'm trying not to call this a "budget build", but I HAVE to spend what little funds I have availiable VERY wisely ... And this will help 4 sure !!! What, no custom chassis, quick change IRS, coilover IFS, rack and pinion, 20" alloys or $15k paint job? LAME!!! :lol: I wish

You Guys are going to think I've gone crazy nutz ... But I just had a thought and wanted your opinions ... I'm not sure what color for the interior, but I had this idea to call Ray at Linear Power and get the color code for my "Plum Crazy" Linear Power amplifiers to use as the exterior paint for this car ... Insane ???

Just ordered (from Hyper Automotive LEDs and HIDS) 4 ft. of Red (Rear Brake/park/signal), 2 ft. of White (back up), and 3 ft. of Amber (front park/signal) led strips to be stealthy installed on the lower section of the front grille (removing stock turn signals) and rear deck set up similar to a 3 rd brake light setup ... Edit: order confirmed while typing this post ... Either I type really slow or those guys at Hyper are operating in OPT (oriental people time) ... you know, Fast as Fuck !!!

Thank you Sir ... I'm not sure how much of the outside and drive train work will be done before October, but I'm planning on having most of the interior / fabrication work done as soon as possible so we can get the system in and playing, and hopefully tuned by October's Car Audio Unified World Finals event. Thats why I'm scrambling my brains on color choices so I can atleast get the door jams and what ever interior parts painted in time for the event. I'm sure I will not be competing (because I will not have anywhere enough points to quality in my class) but I definately plan to be giving demos in the Linear Power / Blues Car Audio Manufacturer's booth ... By any chance you and Mark have plans to make this event ???

Thank you Sir !!! I'm trying not to call this a "budget build", but I HAVE to spend what little funds I have availiable VERY wisely ... And this will help 4 sure !!!

Welcome

Now this is cool ... (quoted from CA-F) Absolutely ...

Thank you Sir !!! LOTS of modifying and color choices, Thank God for Google !!! For the most part, the main question on my mind when it comes to the outside of this car is ... To Chrome, or Not to Chrome ???

Yes Sir ... Wish I could have seen the Elky !!! This is going to be me and my son's project. We still got to get him something to drive when he turns 16, but it won't be this Ford. Looking at a Ford Ranger. I'm hoping to make a weekend Street Rod out of this one ...

Thank you Sir !!! Yea, I plan to cruise around and possibly hit up a couple of the local meet and greets before we get to work on her ... Got to get everything switched over to 12 volts, get here brakes fixed, do something for a gas tank, and install a temporary driver / passenger seat this weekend ...