Dirt Muscle Car

[Hickey]

Oh I like how that Belair bumper punches through the grille.

 

[Greg]

Nobody seems to want the Falcon 3.3's that came off the Gladiator.... maybe I should make them work on the Pontiac.

$2000 worth of shocks on a $500 car... !?! 😮😳

 

[Hickey]

Nobody seems to want the Falcon 3.3's that came off the Gladiator.... maybe I should make them work on the Pontiac.

$2000 worth of shocks on a $500 car... !?! 😮😳

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I say do it, but I want to see the top poke through the hood. 😎

 

[mbryson]

I say do it, but I want to see the top poke through the hood. 😎

And a GTO Ram Air or Trans Am shaker scoop in the hood

 

[Greg]

Well, I couldn't 'waste' the Falcons on the Pontiac and ran across a deal on some cheap, neato Edelbrock shocks for a Jeep! 😆 These things were something around 20 years ago! I'll have to make them fit, as they're for a ZJ with 4" lift.

 

[xjtony]

The shocks on my XJ we're Edelbrock remote reservoirs.

 

[Greg]

I'd really like to race in the NORRA 500 or the 1000 some day...

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[ID Bronco]

My son Spotted this and I thought of you. Hopefully a little baja inspiration. This was in Ensenada.

This one was probably built this way to handle the local roads, they were terrible.

Nova

 

[mbryson]

My son Spotted this and I thought of you. Hopefully a little baja inspiration. This was in Ensenada.

This one was probably built this way to handle the local roads, they were terrible.

Nova
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Crew cab ‘68. Living life to its fullest

 

[Greg]

My son Spotted this and I thought of you. Hopefully a little baja inspiration. This was in Ensenada.

This one was probably built this way to handle the local roads, they were terrible.

Nova
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I dig it! Bet it's fun on the rough dirt roads outside of town, load up all your friends and blast around in the desert!

 

[Greg]

Speaking of Chevelle's.... I did see this thing the other day, its sitting on 4 1/2" lift spindles! 😲

Seems like too much height, but check out that ground clearance!!

 

[Greg]

Don't you hate it when you go out in the shop to work on one thing and end up doing something entirely different? I wasn't planning to work on the Pontiac today.

I hauled some tube home yesterday and decided to build the roof rack, light bar and push bumper on the front. Got the tube bender out and the welder and started putting pieces together.

Everything is built to be big and overstated... this thing is all about standing out from the crowd. 😝

 

[Vonski]

Don't you hate it when you go out in the shop to work on one thing and end up doing something entirely different? I wasn't planning to work on the Pontiac today.

I hauled some tube home yesterday and decided to build the roof rack, light bar and push bumper on the front. Got the tube bender out and the welder and started putting pieces together.

Everything is built to be big and overstated... this thing is all about standing out from the crowd. 😝

Not trying to put more on your plate, but a 12v linear actuator would be pretty sweet for on-the-fly angle changes of your lighting. 🤘

 

[1969honda]

^^^I totally support this idea... maybe have one of those really smart engineer types in here design an active circuit to have it track the road during dune runs like the bmw active headlights...

 

[Hickey]

I feel like it needs a loudspeaker.

 

[RustEoldtrux]

And the black and white paint scheme.

 

[Greg]

I'm planning on having a shit-ton of lighting, I don't think I'll need to make the lights steer with the car... there will be 10 offroad lights, plus the 4 headlights, which will probably be LED's.

It'll look like a damn UFO coming down the road... Close Encounters of the Bonneville Kind.

 

[Greg]

I feel like it needs a loudspeaker.

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[Greg]

I was thinking about this from the beginning, but when @Vonski mentioned the idea of two spares mounted upright in the trunk, I knew it had to happen.

I have a couple extra 33" tires out back, so I pulled the trunk lid and set the spares up on the sides of the trunk.... and I think it's perfect!! 😍 I'll probably just run without a trunk lid, I think it'll look badass!

I should have enough room to run a massive fuel cell (ditching the stock gas tank) in between the tires. I'm thinking 35+ gallons for the fuel cell. The 33's fit with a ton of room to spare, 35's should fit easy. I'll probably build some kind of rack for the fuel cell, spare tire mounts, etc.

Also dug into the glove box and found some quality surprises.... I think I'll try redeem the coupon for my free pack of Genco smokes!

 

[1969honda]

A big 42 gallon square body suburban tank might fit right in.