1934 Ford Coupe hot rod

This lime green-flamed deep glossy black  ’34 Ford hot rod features a custom chopped fiberglass body with suicide doors, custom black leather interior  stitched in exterior matching lime-green and custom built frame that sits a supercharged GM’s 350 cubic small block V8 [ZZ350]  engine. It develops around 600 HP and is mated to a Turbo-hydramatic 350 3-speed transmission.

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1967 Pontiac GTO Convertible

St Louis Car museum & sales is offering this xxceptionally restored gto convertible. Car was recently found after 30 years in storage and received a proper frame-off restoration. Rare factory color combination and number’s matching drive train. This gorgeous 1967 Pontiac GTO convertible is fresh from a complete nut-and-bolt, body off the frame restoration with outstanding results! Finished in rare, factory correct Mariner Turquoise over Parchment interior and upgraded White convertible top. This complete number’s matching vehicle is heavily equipped with options that include 400ci V8 producing a stout 335 horsepower, M20 Muncie 4-speed wide ratio manual transmission, 3.55 Safe-T-Track rear end, buckets seats with optional headrests, center console, power disc brakes, power steering, rally gauge package with hood tachometer and working dash clock, Safeguard speedometer, 14” Rally I wheel wrapped in factory correct Firestone white Wide Oval tires, AM/FM radio with factory power antenna, Ride and Handling package (springs, shock, & stabilizer bar), Grant custom wood steering wheel, luggage lamp, and more!

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1932 Ford Custom Twin-Turbo Roadster

 

Over the top piece of automotive art. Twin-Turbo roadster, true hand crafted one-off Hot Rod. Hood extended 12″, doors 10″ and rear deck shortened 3 1/2″ for long sleek look. Engine is a 350cid (5.7L) LT1 with aluminum heads and Twin-Turbos, adjustable from 450hp to 600hp. Custom front and rear pushrod design with oval shaped A-arms just like Indy and Formula 1 racers. A real Halibrand quick change rear. Side pipes are actually custom chambered mufflers. Many one-off custom built pieces, one-off custom Budnik wheels. Multi-award winning custom paint with flames running on the sides and underneath of car. Done in nine brilliant colors. Custom burgundy leather and wool wrapped interior. Built as an AMBR contender and ISCA award winner. Many, many awards and also invited to participate at Peterson Museum’s 2007 commemoration of 1932 Fords.

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Chevrolet FlexFuel Hot Rod

 

With a 500-horsepower engine, a channeled body and a chopped top, GM’s custom street rod looks right at home on the salt flats of Bonneville. But instead of a traditional gasoline V-8, this ’34 Chevy replica rod sports a turbocharged 2.0L Ecotec engine that runs on E85 ethanol. Appropriately, it has been dubbed the FlexFuel Chevy Hot Rod.

Like hot rods built for the last 60 years, the FlexFuel Hot Rod is built from an assemblage of factory and aftermarket parts. The frame and body are based on the 1934 Chevy, but both were fabricated by the craftsmen at the GM Performance Division (GMPD). The body has been sectioned and channeled to give the car its true hot rod aesthetic, while the frame is a one-off piece designed, engineered and built by GMPD. The slanted grille – with a unique chrome mesh pattern – and hood are integrated for a smoother look, which includes a sun visor characteristic of period hot rod racers.

Like any good rod worth its salt, there are no fenders or running boards; the 10-inch headlamps are mounted to the core support. The front suspension is all custom-built, complete with period-perfect lightening holes drilled in it.

A sturdy 8-3/8-inch Winters Quick-change rearend is suspended by a parallel four-link suspension. It is filled with 5.20 gears, which are used to generate brisk acceleration with 35-inch-tall, racing-type Excelsior rear tires and 29-inch-tall front tires. The tires are mounted on custom 18-inch front and 20-inch rear “kidney bean”-style wheels from Budnik.
Steering comes from a custom-fabricated linkage that is connected to a reversed Corvair steering box. The linkage is mounted to the outside of the frame rail.

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Volvo Hot Rod Jakob

 

The Volvo Hot Rod Jakob was unveiled in February 2008 at the Volvo Museum in Göteborg, Sweden.

The Hot Rod Jakob is a modern interpretation of the very first series-produced Volvo car. The model was called the ÖV4 (the Swedish abbreviation for Open Car, 4 cylinders), but it soon gained a new pet-name - Jakob.

2005-2006: In Leif Tufvesson's workshop in the rural south of Sweden, work commenced on the car. After documenting the original Jakob in detail, his company, Caresto, started building a car that developed into Hot Rod Jakob.

"Volvo has always been a special make for me. These were the cars I learned my skills on in my youth, and I also worked for a while at Volvo's concept-car department. So instead of obtaining inspiration from an old Ford, as is usually the case in Hot Rod circles, I wanted to build something that meant more to me personally. That's why I chose to bring together the most classic attributes of Volvo, the Jakob, and my own modern Hot Rod style," explains Leif Tufvesson.

Parked side by side, the similarities between old and new are remarkable. The curvature of the bonnet has exactly the same radius. The characteristic windscreen attachment pillar that runs down the body side follows the original in detail as regards dimensions, materials and the number of screws used. Equally identical is the radiator grille with its characteristic mesh pattern and diagonal bar that incorporates the classic iron symbol. The body has been built by hand from raw aluminium panels that were bent into their final shape using a hammer and English wheel. Exactly as it was done in the prototype workshop back in the 1920s.

That said, however, the differences are naturally also obvious. Hot Rod Jakob is far smaller than the original. It is a two-seater instead of offering space for four. And it has those typical Hot Rod attributes: large wheels, no wings and a muscular rear axle. And if you get a bit closer it is possible to see differences in terms of materials and details. The chassis is built of lightweight carbon fibre, just like today's most advanced racing cars, not from heavy steel beams as in bygone times. The brake discs are remarkably slim, but their huge diameter (450 mm front, 515 mm rear) guarantee that the braking surface is still going to be more than sufficient. The wheel spokes are made of aluminium instead of wood, but they are exactly the same in number.

Power for the 2008 Hot Rod Jakob comes from a Volvo T5 engine. This unit develops 265 horsepower and 370 Nm or torque.

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Volvo T6 Roadster Hot Rod

 

This hand-built hot rod constructed from a variety of Volvo components and a featuring twin turbocharged inline 6-cylinder engine is a creation of Leif Tufvesson. After Volvo became aware of the T6 Roadster they invited the car to be shown alongside the XC70 AT concept at SEMA 2005.

Leif, a former Volvo employee, spent some time working at the Volvo prototype department in Gothenburg, Sweden, his experience here helped in the construction of this one-off hot rod.

Construction began on the Volvo hot rod in 1998. It was built with extreme attention to detail entirely by hand in Leif's own garage, using his own tools. All components of the build are OEM Volvo parts. The T6 Roadster is powered by a modified 300 horsepower twin-turbocharged 2.9-liter inline 6 engine, kindly donated by a Volvo S80.

The engine, positioned behind the sports seats, is mated to a 5-speed Geartronic transmission that drives the rear wheels. To help keep the T6 Roadster's engine cool, the rear decklid lifts automatically when a preset temperature is reached inside the engine compartment.

This car is the work of a genius. 

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