The Official Hot Rod Thread - Part 2: No Replacement For Displacement

[RustyHornet]

Lots done the past couple days! Had a visitor today, unfortunately I didn’t get to the famous race truck...

 

[ChristianPatriot]

Lookin good

 

[thunderchicken]

Looks good Rusty. I dig the white headers with that color on the engine. But before you roll out with it, you might want to remove the wood...at least I would lol

 

[churchmouse]

Most cool. Nice wood chock.

 

[RustyHornet]

Thanks fellas. Had to put the block in when I took the trans out so I could seal up and paint the tunnel. It didn’t work very well after the weight was off the rear.

 

[ChristianPatriot]

Speaking of street freaks...Roadkill guys are doing a straight-axle, Hemi-powered Gremlin. I see death in their future.

Sneak Peek: The Roadkill Gremmie is Finally Getting its Hemi! - Hot Rod Network

 

[femurphy77]

Speaking of street freaks...Roadkill guys are doing a straight-axle, Hemi-powered Gremlin. I see death in their future.

Sneak Peek: The Roadkill Gremmie is Finally Getting its Hemi! - Hot Rod Network

While it's not a Hemi, a buddy of mine had an original 401 4-speed Gremlin that he bought from the dealer new. I believe the dealer was Randall American somewhere out in Arizona. They would pull the stock engine and transmission out and put in a 401 four Speed and sell it as a dealer installed package way back. I don't know how many of them were sold but he was telling me about it, I have seen reference to them in magazine articles so there must have been some truth to his statement..

 

[Bigtanker]

Randall 401 XR - GremlinX.com

They only ever made 20 or 21 of them. Bet he wishes he still had it.

 

[bobzilla]

Lots done the past couple days! Had a visitor today, unfortunately I didn’t get to the famous race truck...

I saw this in person!

 

[Brad69]

It is missing a chain from a bolt in the head to the frame!
If you want the true 1970’s vibe!

 

[churchmouse]

It is missing a chain from a bolt in the head to the frame!
If you want the true 1970’s vibe!

Back then we did not have all the cool catolog stuff we have now. And money. Yeah that money thing so what ever worked

 

[femurphy77]

Randall 401 XR - GremlinX.com

They only ever made 20 or 21 of them. Bet he wishes he still had it.

Didn't realize that! No doubt!!

 

[churchmouse]

Didn't realize that! No doubt!!

There was one here in Indy back in the day but the owner put the 401 in it. 3 peddle "X" car from the factory was stolen and stripped.
He bought the body back and went nuts. One of the scariest cars I ever rode in. If it went straight it was freaky fast. If it got bent then you were in for a ride.

 

[RustyHornet]

It is missing a chain from a bolt in the head to the frame!
If you want the true 1970’s vibe!

The plug wires I got for this are black, but I do have a set of yellow Accels I’ve been saving for a retro build.

 

[thunderchicken]

There was one here in Indy back in the day but the owner put the 401 in it. 3 peddle "X" car from the factory was stolen and stripped.
He bought the body back and went nuts. One of the scariest cars I ever rode in. If it went straight it was freaky fast. If it got bent then you were in for a ride.

Way back in the '70s a friend of my uncle had a Gremlin. I couldn't tell you what engine was in it. But they figured out how to put a Ford manual 4spd in it. They wrote everything up and it was a featured article in HotRod magazine.
There is a dude here in Indy that has had a Gremlin since the 70s that has been worked over and reworked several times with a BBC in it that runs mid - low 7's in the quarter. It's fast but no matter what they do to it..it will always be fugly

 

[thunderchicken]

The plug wires I got for this are black, but I do have a set of yellow Accels I’ve been saving for a retro build.

The accels would look better on that straight axle 55

 

[Bigtanker]

 

[churchmouse]

That just hurts the eyes. Hurts man. hurts.

 

[churchmouse]

Way back in the '70s a friend of my uncle had a Gremlin. I couldn't tell you what engine was in it. But they figured out how to put a Ford manual 4spd in it. They wrote everything up and it was a featured article in HotRod magazine.
There is a dude here in Indy that has had a Gremlin since the 70s that has been worked over and reworked several times with a BBC in it that runs mid - low 7's in the quarter. It's fast but no matter what they do to it..it will always be fugly

If memory serves some of the V-8s were ford. American motors. Some body by Fisher pieces. Torque flite auto's. Nail head Buick 401's etc so on and so forth.
I am thinking my buddy's "X" car had a Mopar rear end in it.

 

[ChristianPatriot]

That just hurts the eyes. Hurts man. hurts.

Bed cover is the best looking part of the whole car.