My other trucks, past and present;

[l.k.]

sweet trucks..im loving the luv.. my uncle had one when i was very young.. nothing quite like yours..just a stock 305 in it...lowered..

[foolonthehill]

I agree about not caring much about the faded paint. I was going to leave my white truck just the way it is, (super sleeper!) but think I'll just redo it white, with a nice matte black side stripe of some kind that will resemble, oh, I don't know, maybe the early '70's 'Cuda hockey stripe. Something that makes you know it's Mopar.
Which brings me to the other issue, thieves. Fortunately, most crimminals are stupid. It's a prerequisite. So they typically steel Chevies and Harley's. I wouldn't worry too much about them steeling my '86 Dodge D-150's, for instance, and doubt the first gen Mitsu's are much or a target, either.
Now if it was bagged, fuzzed, and uglied up with nekked girls or skeleton's, then they'd want the ugly thing....

[foolonthehill]

Here's my current first gen Plymouth Arrow.P9170001.JPGP9170002.JPGdrivers side.JPGdetail1.JPG
Like I said, I got the truck for $300.00 from a salvage year. I did clean it and buff it a little. It took us about three evenings working part time to do the swap, not including getting the driveshaft modified and balanced.
It's at the chassis shop this week getting a roll bar installed, and some Corbeau harnesses, and a new Lokar Midnight series floor mounted gas pedal. I'm without a shop to work right now, so I had to vend the work out.

[foolonthehill]

This is one of my other projects, a '1966 Dodge Dart Exhibition Match Racer (funny car)
This is being built exactly how they were in '65-'66, a very short period in drag racing history. I was there, I loved it. So I decided to build one of my own to enjoy.
I made the front fenders, and am in the process of setting shop up again to do the doors, hood, deck, and other car stuff, in carbon fiber, which is what I do for a living.
I spent 30 years with Rockwell Int'l and Boeing in advanced aerospace composites. Anyway, here's my Dart as it was when we started, how we chopped it apart, and then notice it with the stock fenders back on it to show how much we stretched the nose, just like in the old days...P1150002.JPGP2030014.JPGP4120003.JPGP7210032.JPG
well, somehow I missed the pic with my carbon fender. BRB...

[foolonthehill]

Try this..PB290006.jpgallen 3.JPG
So here's my not only stretched, but also altered wheelbase fender. Also a pic of Charlie Allen's '66 Dart funny. One of my all time fav's! Charlie's engine is set back quite a bit more than mine, but you just don't need that today with tire technology, and the way they over prep the tracks till they're like glue (to compensate for people who can't drive!).

[l.k.]

oh my jesus..... you are the man. i love your projects...

arrow is amazing and the car is well i cant even find words....

some of my favorite cars and trucks and you got them..:p

great work man....for a lack of words....

[foolonthehill]

Thank you, you're too kind. It's been a rough few years being a business owner. Lost most of my life's savings trying to do things to keep my people working through '08-'09. Ended up having to take a job for the first time in a very long time (difficult learning to say "my boss" again!)
But now I'm back hacking it all together. Should be some fun stuff in another 12-18 months as they all come together.
If you liked my current stuff, let me show you what I've done in the past...gailflag.jpgTimblin Chassis post BCI.jpgGailnMe.jpg

I'm going to have to move some pix around and do another post, but the Blue and White bike is mine, me and my awesome wife in the pix, It's a turbo/nitrous Kawasaki funny bike, and I ran 7 flat at 192MPH on that; about 20 years ago! The all carbon bodied thing is one of our customer's bikes that I build the bodies for, a Pro Mod Suzuki for Timblin Chassis