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Viper Guy
Posted 2020-06-30 9:35 PM (#600368 - in reply to #600347)
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samstrader - 2020-06-30 1:58 PM

Wow.... Amazing transformation. Just amazing... What a beautiful car now.


I agree and to me, the most significant single improvement to me over the stock Chrysler is the DeSoto front.
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57burb
Posted 2020-07-01 2:32 PM (#600401 - in reply to #600368)
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My personal favorite modification is the Jeep hood as a scoop. The best compliment it gets is that most people aren't even aware it's been customized.

This was a lot of work for me and my dad, so I'm pretty proud of how it turned out.

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Posted 2020-07-01 9:02 PM (#600414 - in reply to #111659)
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That's a pretty cool modification. I didn't notice it was not original. Blends in perfectly.
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Posted 2020-07-01 10:47 PM (#600418 - in reply to #111659)
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Great modifications, what rim did you use? Can you let me know. Thanks!
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57burb
Posted 2020-07-02 12:29 PM (#600431 - in reply to #600418)
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Davislasson - 2020-07-01 9:47 PM

Great modifications, what rim did you use? Can you let me know. Thanks!

I put the wheel info in this thread here.
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56D500boy
Posted 2020-07-25 3:43 PM (#601297 - in reply to #600401)
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Some competition for your beautiful 57 NY'r - this one is in Sweden:

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Viper Guy
Posted 2020-07-25 9:27 PM (#601311 - in reply to #111659)
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Could be good competition but that color combo is a NO, NO!
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57burb
Posted 2020-07-28 12:43 PM (#601424 - in reply to #111659)
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That's a pretty cool car! I'm probably biased, but I think I'll keep mine



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Posted 2020-08-01 11:52 AM (#601565 - in reply to #111659)
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You had a real truck pulling that beast home in the 1st pic. Nothing like a International 7.3 PSD. So your wagon is gone too???
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57burb
Posted 2020-08-01 6:38 PM (#601572 - in reply to #601565)
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Yep, I sold it to a friend of mine that wants to build a wild custom out of it. Maybe he'll join here?
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57burb
Posted 2020-09-04 12:02 PM (#602917 - in reply to #601572)
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Pretty cool deal, the Chrysler has been picked up for a feature in a German magazine! Somehow they are going to run a 10-page article. I'm not sure what they'll say about it with that much space, LOL.

I'm only sharing this here, so keep it under your hat, thank you

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Posted 2020-09-04 2:00 PM (#602921 - in reply to #111659)
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Wow, getting a lot of exposure! Congratulations. I'm surprised the magazine is in English.
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Posted 2020-09-07 8:25 AM (#602979 - in reply to #602917)
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57burb - 2020-09-04 5:02 PM
Pretty cool deal, the Chrysler has been picked up for a feature in a German magazine!


Danny. Thats cool. Congratulations.
I will keep eyes on the newsagent.




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Posted 2020-10-17 7:03 PM (#604567 - in reply to #111659)
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I had the pleasure of seeing this beautiful Chrysler in person today, and the pictures don't do it justice. It was easily the star of the show...but naturally, I'm a little bit prejudiced.

Thanks for bringing it to our little town of Ponder, TX, Danny!
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Posted 2020-10-18 9:28 AM (#604579 - in reply to #604567)
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Hi Danny, having a '56 I don't often look at '57's but when Garry had posted I had to look. I am so glad that I did, beautiful car and a great build thread. The hood scoop idea really caught my attention because I might have a clearance problem. Very helpful, thank you. 

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57burb
Posted 2020-10-19 5:00 PM (#604650 - in reply to #604567)
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Thanks for saying that, Gary. The old girl is starting to get a little beat up from driving it all the time! I'm planning to refresh some things this winter, and take care of a bunch of stuff I rushed.

I wish I'd had a chance to meet up with you. I've been wanting to get all us north TX forward look folks together for a long time: http://www.forwardlook.net/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=41326&...

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Posted 2020-10-19 8:11 PM (#604655 - in reply to #111659)
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A meet-up for the local folks would be fun, and Roanoke is sort of centrally located. Only problem is not being able to schedule very far in advance due to changing weather this time of the year. I just read that we might even have winter precipitation near the end of the month! I'm long retired and quite flexible for time and place, so if you have any suggestions, let me know.

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57burb
Posted 2020-10-22 11:12 AM (#604781 - in reply to #604655)
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The German magazine editor was kind enough to mail me two copies directly. The car has a 10-page feature with a LOT of text - that I can't read! I am very honored.



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Posted 2020-11-30 10:33 PM (#606204 - in reply to #604781)
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The car is going to be in another mag soon. Again, I was asked to keep it off social media, so please do that. But I wanted to give you guys a little peek.



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Posted 2020-12-01 12:26 AM (#606205 - in reply to #606204)
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Congratulations, Danny!! Well done and it looks fantastic!!

What I appreciate the most is your overall "panel fit".
By far, the most difficult restorative goal for this family of cars is to get "perfect panel alignment". Your doors actually properly fit the body. Your front clip actually fits the doors and body and bumpers and your trunk lid actually fits both quarter panels! Your hood actually fits the fenders, body and bumper assemblies.

Nothing ever left the factory this way!!
My hat is off to you and your team!

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Posted 2020-12-01 12:50 AM (#606207 - in reply to #606204)
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The looks of the car are so well balanced...everything is sooo beautiful...also the surroundings.
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Posted 2020-12-01 12:51 AM (#606208 - in reply to #111659)
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I don't understand why in the 50's and early 60's these werent seriously customized... Chevys and Fords were all the rage to customize... very rarely did you see a mopar... 

I thought that is weird, very weird because the FWL cars were the sleekest, lowest and best designs(even the car mags and public agreed).  So to not see like 1 57-58 Dodge custom (handful of Plymouths),  ZERO imperial customs

Just I find it strange (not until the 57 Chrysler showed up) and it was like the only one aside from a few Plymouths.  

that panel fitment was living hell... I swear probably the worst part of the job, maybe cutting and buffing is worse... both will kick your arse... I got mine right after fighting for days.



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57burb
Posted 2020-12-01 3:30 PM (#606228 - in reply to #606208)
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LD3 Greg - 2020-11-30 11:26 PM

Nothing ever left the factory this way!!
My hat is off to you and your team!


Thank you for the kind remarks about the body panels on this car, Greg. I know you know what's involved in getting a car to look nice. Would you believe, it's all the original sheet metal it was born with (besides the hood, since we customized a spare and ended up using it; the stock hood is still perfect). And I assure you, it may have been put together carefully, but we didn't do any of the cutting and welding it would have taken to get show quality tolerances. It's just a driver. Black is merciless in some ways, but pretty forgiving on panel gaps. There wasn't a team, just me and my dad. A few buddies did stop by to help us put the front clip and the hood back on.

22mafeja - 2020-11-30 11:50 PM

The looks of the car are so well balanced...everything is sooo beautiful...also the surroundings.


Thank you, Ralf! I was looking for a photo shoot location and happened to drive by this house. I knocked on the door, and they were completely onboard. They were having a party the day we photographed the car!

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I don't understand why in the 50's and early 60's these werent seriously customized... Chevys and Fords were all the rage to customize... very rarely did you see a mopar... 


Probably because the FL cars didn't need a bunch of customization to look good!

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Posted 2020-12-01 4:11 PM (#606231 - in reply to #111659)
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Beautiful photo Danny, congrats to yet another mag feature!!!
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Posted 2020-12-02 1:00 AM (#606251 - in reply to #111659)
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Wow I like it, perfect mild Customs
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57burb
Posted 2021-03-08 6:16 PM (#609650 - in reply to #606231)
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The issue of Car Kulture Deluxe (CKD) is on the shelves. Keep print alive! Go pick up a copy if you can.

here's the cover
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Posted 2021-03-09 2:50 AM (#609664 - in reply to #111659)
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Sweet Danny! Once again in the magazines! Congrats!
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Posted 2021-03-09 1:11 PM (#609680 - in reply to #609650)
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Your car has really got some appreciation all over the world...no wonder...well earned!
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Posted 2021-05-24 12:37 PM (#612211 - in reply to #609680)
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Goodguys awarded my car a 'Feature Pick' so they wrote up a nice article about it and took some pics. I thought it turned out really nice!

https://www.fuelcurve.com/danny-vandergriff-1957-chrysler/



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Posted 2021-05-24 2:11 PM (#612213 - in reply to #612211)
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Congrats Danny. Your car and your and your dad's work all deserve the accolades that they are getting. Subtle beauty.

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Posted 2021-06-21 6:32 PM (#612964 - in reply to #111659)
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A local hot rod shop had a party a couple of weeks back. The highlight of the night for me is when Jimmie Vaughan stopped by and chatted with me for a while about my car. He's a huge fan of custom cars and owns a couple of killer rides. The second best part (for me, at least) was when he covered his brother's Texas Flood. It brought chills!

A great surprise was when this original-paint '58 Fireflite coupe - a Spring Special, no less - showed up. The color is Spring Special-only "Spring Rose" pink with a white roof and the anodized aluminum side trim. Very cool car!

Before we left for the show, I asked my dad to sign my glovebox door for me. He has a lot of blood and sweat in this car with me, so it meant a lot! It has also been signed by Gene Winfield and Clif Inman.



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57burb
Posted 2022-02-18 6:31 PM (#619543 - in reply to #111659)
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Not much of an update. Mostly just wanted to check in with my fellow FLers.

I moved the Chrysler to my dad's garage for about six weeks while we used my shop to respray his '64 Cadillac and do a few fixes and upgrades to it. Below is a picture of his car before the repaint.

On the way home, I started smelling gas, which was really unusual. I pulled over, and sure enough it was spurting out of a pinhole/crack in the inlet fitting of the front carb! Never seen that before! At least it was an easy fix - and didn't burn the car to the ground.

The weather is starting to get nice again and I'm ready for some cruising. Hope everyone is having a great 2022.

Here is a video of that weird fuel leak: https://youtu.be/_w3Ce4ViUb0

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Posted 2022-02-18 9:08 PM (#619544 - in reply to #619543)
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That is weird, Danny!  Right out of the middle of the face of that elbow.  Makes you wonder how that type of pinhole happens!  Cool images.

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Posted 2022-02-22 12:10 PM (#619666 - in reply to #619544)
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It really was weird, especially since I hadn't touched that fitting in at least a year and a half. It sems to have been a crack, probably from over tightening.

I had to "enhance" this photo significantly to get the defect to show, but it seems clear what it was. Keep an eye on your cars, folks!



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Posted 2022-02-23 2:45 AM (#619708 - in reply to #111659)
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This leak is bad,- BUT the pictures you made compensates us all the more for it - hopefully you too
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Posted 2022-05-06 7:04 PM (#621301 - in reply to #619708)
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This will be the sweetest mild custom '57 New Yorker on the streets of Texas. The worst thing that could ever happen to it would be for some restorer to get his hands on it and try to make it into the marketing compromise that Chrysler offered back in 1957 with intent to please thousands of people. When it is done this time it will speak to the greatness of American individuality and creativity; it will be a personalized custom car in the great tradition of the modified Classics driven by Clark Gable or something from Steve McQueen's large car stable. THIS will be a credit to its owner; not another cookie cutter car off the assembly line. There are blueprints to duplicate what Detroit did; customizing done well takes unique talents. MoPar to ya!


That was a comment that my friend, Wayne Graefen, made in another thread here on the FL.net sit years ago. To put his post into proper context, he wrote that in reply to another user (d500neil, RIP) who was aghast that I wanted to customize a well-optioned '57 New Yorker! I never forgot that post of support and encouragement, it really meant a lot.

To bring it full circle, the Chrysler won the 'Jalopy Journal pick' at the Lonestar Round Up in Austin. It is kind of a big deal because there are only 6 or 7 awards given out to thousands of cars in attendance, and most of the top cars are pro-built, big-money builds. So I was quite proud to receive the honor, and have my dad there with me (since he painted it!). And a hat tip to my friend Wayne for the encouragement all those years ago.

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Magnificent car, I had some of those same type of ideas back in 2001 when I bought this one from a guy in Houston, I guess it’s in Australia now, I went a little too big with the wheels and tires (I was primarily a Cadillac guy before this) only had it a few weeks because a guy that wanted it when I bought made an offer I couldn’t refuse, I was getting laid off at the RR at the time anyway and couldn’t have held on, wish I had it now, black with that weird gray/brownish interior
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test for photo addition, oh well, not working, this is much too complicated for posting pictures

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57burb
Posted 2022-07-21 12:03 AM (#623058 - in reply to #623054)
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I remember you, Jimmy. You replied on a FB post some time ago and I saved your pictures off.

The fl.net site is VERY picky about image file types and sizes. I guess they will never modernize the board. Just gotta be sure they are .jpg (and not .jpeg) files and under 500kb. Are these what you were trying to post?

BTW, I'm glad you joined. Welcome to the forum. I think the current owner of your black NYer is on this board. Check out his car. http://forwardlook.net/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=76778

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Posted 2022-07-21 11:47 AM (#623068 - in reply to #111659)
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That's the one, I had big plans for that, bought an original 300C 2X4 manifold on ebay, was eventually going to paint the top white and change interior to Pinefrost green and black, like I had in my 59' Coupe DeVille, oh well, I'll be looking for a black 300 C pretty soon to get back into the game after 20 years.

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I am so full of admiration for you car. Every detail on it is so well planned and done. That`s why I seek some good advice from you. I am doing a Coronet 57 now that is going to
be a soft custom kind of (absolutely not to be compared with your gem) .
I am doing a door handle delete like you did. How and where did you install the solenoids and popper springs?
I haven`t started with this yet and thought I could save some sweating if I ask around since this is completely new to me.
Would be grateful for some pictures..
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57burb
Posted 2022-08-24 11:03 AM (#623760 - in reply to #623756)
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Sure Ralf, no problem. It was pretty easy. When done, be sure to coach your passengers to use one finger in the door glass channel to shut the door, or else you'll get big nasty hand prints all over your paint. Ask me how I know.

The solenoids will fit inside the access holes in each door. I drilled two holes to mount them, and made up brackets that positioned them to pull as close to "in line" with the factory interior door pull as possible. Make sure you have clearance to put your door panel back on. I then drilled a small hole in the door pull, and connected the door pull to the solenoid with 1/16" wire rope and ferrules. It wasn't too hard and it is easy to adjust. Doing it this way also let me keep every piece of stock door hardware and let me keep the interior unchanged. In the image below, I put red dots by the three holes I drilled.

The popper springs are inside a little spot at the leading edge of the door pockets. I got the heaviest-duty ones offered, 100 pound I think. They still won't really "pop" the door open, but they do slightly open them and then you just reach and open the rest of the way. I tried to think of a way to mount them inside the back edge of the jamb, so the door actually "pops" open but I couldn't find a way to do that without significantly cutting into the jamb. And it would be ugly. So I just live with it.

My solenoids are controlled using an electronic key fob. The wireless controller is inside the trunk (where my battery and fuse panel are) and it operates a relay for each solenoid. The controller allows you to adjust the amount of time the solenoid is open, and I think it's at 1.5 seconds or something.

I don't have a manual pull for these. I typically keep my vent windows unlocked so I can reach in and open the door using the interior handle. But it wouldn't be hard to add another piece of wire rope and drill a few holes to make an emergency release cable inside the front wheel opening. Good luck.



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Posted 2022-08-24 1:20 PM (#623765 - in reply to #111659)
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Thanks Danny , that was helpful.
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Posted 2022-08-25 12:32 PM (#623779 - in reply to #111659)
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Beautiful ride Danny....i have the long lost 4 door cousin...still stock though and way behind in shine
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57burb
Posted 2022-10-03 8:24 PM (#624676 - in reply to #623779)
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I'm honored to have the car featured in the latest issue of Speed and Kulture magazine. Should be hitting the newsstands anytime now. Get you one!

I was invited to take it to the Gathering at the Roc this past weekend in Bartlesville, OK. It's a limited show that brings cars to Woolaroc, which is the lodge, museum, and nature preserve created by Frank Phillips of Phillps 66 fame. I can't describe this place in just a post - you need to put it on your bucket list! https://www.woolaroc.org/

While in town I was able to photograph it in front of Frank Lloyd Wright's only skyscraper, the Price Tower in downtown Bartlesville. This is one of the most amazing buildings I have ever seen in person. This is one of the last of FLW's works to be built and the details are incredible. https://www.pricetower.org/

And finally, I stopped off at the location of the former Reinauer Bros Motor Company dealership in OKC where my car was sold new. The owner gave us a walking tour of the building and I got to see the service bays where this car was probably prepped when new. The building is now an immersive art exhibit.

The car made me proud as it never missed a beat in 980 miles of driving and it even got 14.9mpg on the highway at a steady 75mph. Just wanted to share.







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57burb
Posted 2023-01-12 10:14 AM (#626884 - in reply to #111659)
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Just a heads up, I'll be bringing the Chrysler to the Grand National Roadster Show in Pomona CA on Feb 3-5, 2023. It will be in the Suede Palace next to the Speed and Kulture / Cheater Slick Culture booth.

Come on over and say Hi, check out the car, hang out with us, tell me how you would have done it better! Let me know you are from the FL.net site and I'll get you a discount on some merch. I look forward to meeting anyone that can make it out.
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57burb
Posted 2023-02-07 1:00 PM (#627425 - in reply to #111659)
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I was able to meet a couple of people from the FL site and fb groups at GNRS. I was invited to park the car right at the entrance to the Suede Palace along with the Head Skratcher, a car that I helped my friend Skratch with on some final assembly.

It was an awesome time!



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Posted 2023-02-07 8:40 PM (#627429 - in reply to #111659)
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Congrats! Bet it was a blast. Your car is one of the best I’ve seen on this website in my opinion.
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Posted 2023-02-08 11:49 AM (#627443 - in reply to #111659)
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Car has hit pretty much perfection. Time to start on the next one
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Posted 2023-02-08 2:52 PM (#627446 - in reply to #111659)
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One of the very few customized cars I really like. Surely a lot of thinking and planning behind the final result.
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