SRD Art
03-06-2009, 12:11 PM
Here's my entry for this month...
For as long as I can remember my dad would bring home these crazy $300 cars like lost puppies. When one'd break he'd junk it and somehow find another. I drove this 68 Torino wagon when I was 16 for a short while until I bought my 69 Malibu. One evening showing off to a friend that a station wagon could do a burnout the brakes failed (or so that's what seems to have happened) and I kissed a large concrete light pole base. Ooops. Would've made a sweet hot rod until I goobered it up.
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/73novars/torinowagonweb.jpg
Had I got to keep the car and had the funds, I'd have done something like this. Mostly set up to be a simple driver/ race car hauler and support vehicle, it would be equipped with a few basic suspension upgrades including 3.55's in a 9" and a 2" drop, 18" wheels, big brakes, a stout torquey big block featuring FI, and a C6 with a Gear Vendors over drive to split gears while hauling and a little better mileage on the long runs. Body mods include high beam buckets plumbed to cool the front brakes, a Cobra Jet Torino hood and emblem, blacked out window trim and door handles, and factory style graphics. Basically stock interior with a decent sound system and we're done.
http://i593.photobucket.com/albums/tt12/streetroddesigns/69TorinoWagonweb-1.jpg
For as long as I can remember my dad would bring home these crazy $300 cars like lost puppies. When one'd break he'd junk it and somehow find another. I drove this 68 Torino wagon when I was 16 for a short while until I bought my 69 Malibu. One evening showing off to a friend that a station wagon could do a burnout the brakes failed (or so that's what seems to have happened) and I kissed a large concrete light pole base. Ooops. Would've made a sweet hot rod until I goobered it up.
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll86/73novars/torinowagonweb.jpg
Had I got to keep the car and had the funds, I'd have done something like this. Mostly set up to be a simple driver/ race car hauler and support vehicle, it would be equipped with a few basic suspension upgrades including 3.55's in a 9" and a 2" drop, 18" wheels, big brakes, a stout torquey big block featuring FI, and a C6 with a Gear Vendors over drive to split gears while hauling and a little better mileage on the long runs. Body mods include high beam buckets plumbed to cool the front brakes, a Cobra Jet Torino hood and emblem, blacked out window trim and door handles, and factory style graphics. Basically stock interior with a decent sound system and we're done.
http://i593.photobucket.com/albums/tt12/streetroddesigns/69TorinoWagonweb-1.jpg