Re: Flaming River Steering Column

[Dan McCormack <mcwheels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sean, The truck already had an HP Ford 302 with a C-4 when I bought it but 
it still had the straight axle front suspension and the original Dana 44 
rear end with some ridiculous stump pulling truck gears. Besides adding the 
Cordoba suspension with power steering, tilt wheel and disc brakes I used a 
late 60's Mustang rear end mounted on a spring kit that I also got from 
Gibbons. These mods also lowered the truck about 4 to 6 inches. I'll have to 
look and see if I have any pictures but this was way before I had a digital 
camera. It was all done 50's style with a tuck and roll interior and bed 
cover, steel pack mufflers, blue dot taillights, louvered hood and tailgate, 
chrome reverse with wide whites and a set of very rare factory accessory 
fender skirts. I don't know about awesome but it was definitely Kool 
Daddy-O.

Dan


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sean B" <polecat2@xxxxxxxx>
To: <1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 4:35 PM
Subject: RE: Flaming River Steering Column


> That must have been one awesome truck!  What engine did you use?  My
> uncle has one about that vintage, but I can't talk him out of it.  It's
> just rusting away in a field.  Did you see the one Street and
> Performance put a new hemi into?  That was cool.
>
> Thanks for the advice,
>
> Sean
>
>
> Dan McCormack wrote:
> > Sean, I'm not sure that the Mopar tilt column is identical to the GM
> > column but they were made by Saginaw and use internal GM parts. As far
> > as using one out of a Trans Am I'm sure it's possible. You'll have to
> > adapt it but the street rod crowd does it all the time. And I wouldn't
> > worry about using the adaptor to connect the column to the box, again
> > the street rod guys have been using them for years. I once used a
> > Chrysler Cordoba tilt column in a 56 Ford F-100 pickup. Actually I
> > installed the whole torsion bar front suspension out of the Cordoba into
> > the pickup, that's one of the reasons I know the Chrysler tilt column
> > had GM internal parts.


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