Ethyl-FFR 1933 Ford Hot Rod

gorgeous car!

The padded roll bar cover - with cutouts for seat belt hardware - is an amazing touch. He gives you an idea how well planned this build was.

Thanks for the kind comments. I have to give credit to Roy at Leo's Upholstery in McKinney Texas. He has an eye for a lot of things many of us do not often think of. The padded rollbar with the zipper is fabulous

zordak said:

Murphy's law says no matter what you bring you will need the one thing you did not.

LoL ain't that the truth, I think that mitigates USA or AAA roadside as being absolutely essential

I wish I lived up in your neck of the woods. Things appear way more interesting up in that area than they do down here in SATX.

I seen days that SA was as cool as could be

Social Distancing.....its where you make it.

Article published in the Legion Town publication of the American Legion

http://www.legiontown.org/myflag/6246/keep-her-flying

In reply to wrp :

Nice pictures. That paint has a really shiny finish on it.

Cleaned my tailpipes

Exceptionally nice picture of wildflowers and the Hot Rod.

Friends of mine sent me a number of license plates to use as wallpaper in my garage. They also sent me a really cool 1933 Tennessee License Plate. Struggling now with the urge to restore it to use in showing. Do I restore it to new condition, or simply preserve the patina and leave the look as is? Thoughts?

Patina plate on a shiny car? Not for me

Absolutely. Leave the Patina.

Otherwise it just looks like a cheap plastic reproduction plate.

AWESOME hot rod BTW

Here is what I am trying to do with the license plates.

Working on Louvered Hood Panels to assist in cooling the engine compartment. Don Ross Fabrications is going to make me a pair out of mild steel. Shot is of an earlier attempt to mold my own with glass.

Out on a social distance run to the essential items store and ran across another Hot Rod. Now I am Baptists and Baptists never recognize each other at the essential items store just as Hotrods probably shouldn't either. However, it was a beautiful T-Bucket

Friends of mine in Eastern Tennessee have redirected the production of their stills from Moonshine to Hand Sanitizer. Me n Ethyl don't care, we can run the quarantine blockades and deliver white whiskey whether you can drink it or not.

In the 1950's and 1960's in Eastern Tennessee and Kentucky on Saturday we'd go to the Bootlegger's to make an illegal purchase of the contents of mason jars. You'd drive down this backwoods country road, past souped up cars that were positioned to 1) escape the inevitable raids and 2) to deal with customers trying to pull a fast one. You'd lay down your money at a designated stump, drive around the bend and come back again and viola, a mason jar full of white whiskey would be there with no one to stop you from taking it. This video is a little long but it is a cool drive down a country road, the distant guitar in the background is me. I wonder if in present times, many of the old folks in the hills are re-purposing the stills to double the proof and make hand cleaner. Then there are those blockade runners that have to brave through stupid gubernatorial edicts to deliver the hand sanitizer to a grateful public. Nothing has much changed since George Washington sent the Army into Pennsylvania to quell the whiskey rebellion, except maybe it hasn't really started yet. Enjoy the car and the drive.

Back in the woods, near the still.

Really awesome photos in the backwoods

Another cool picture

Here is the whole day at the bootleggers. 

Pulled the heads. Replacing them with the Vortec 062's I recently went through. We had reseated the valves, cut the guides for 0.600 or better lift, decked them, cut the spring seats for bigger dual springs, and reground the seats. We are going to add a Comp cams Roller kit with 236/242 at 050 and a total lift of 520/540 with a 110 LSA. While we have it down we are going to upgrade the fan and add a Holley Sniper EFI. We will also add a dual synch distributor. Charles Ready at Ready Motorsports is doing the bulk of the heavy lifting on the work. Also took time out yesterday to watch the Blue Angel Flyover.

First Start with 383 Build. We used a late model Gen I SBC stroker with 383 Ci. We added forged and balanced internals and a Comp Cams extreme energy X288 roller cam. We added a set of Vortec cast iron heads, modified for the roller cam to give us the lift we needed. To cap it off we put on a Holley Sniper EFI with a Holey Hyperspark ignition.

That is a great build!  I dig the fact that it has fenders and A/C, which I guess shows that I'm not in my 20s anymore, but hey, practicality is good at any age.  I would kill for some moonshine right now . . .