History
Feb 2000 - bought out of a paddock in Brisbane; Spent 10 1/2 years hot rodding it; November 2010 - debuted at the Qld Hot Rod Spectacular - won 1st place in Hot Rod Tudor class. Multi-award winner. Known as Veloxity.
Modifications
ENGINE:
350 Chevy (crate 290hp); 4 bolt mains; steel crank; Edelbrock 4bbl 600cfm carburettor; Edelbrock dual plane ‘Performer’ alloy manifold; Edelbrock alloy reverse flow water-pump; March Performance serpentine pulley kit; MSD alternator; Mooneyes finned air-cleaner & K&N filter; Custom headers-HPC; Holley Blue electric fuel pump; Mickey Thompson alloy valve covers; Sanden A/C compressor; PWR custom alloy radiator & overflow tank.
TRANSMISSION:
GM TH400 - rebuilt; 2500rpm stall converter; remote transmission cooler; Lokar electronic kick-down module; Lokar electronic shift indicator module; Lokar 32 inch swan-neck shifter; Lokar 8-Ball shifter knob.
REAR-END:
Borg-Warner differential – narrowed housing (8 inches); 2:92 drive gears; Ford 9 inch axles (shortened & re-splined); alloy finned cover-plate.
BRAKES:
Slotted discs (front) L300; re-sleeved (stainless) & reconditioned callipers; Borg-Warner drums-finned (rear); Ford Escort booster; XA-XB master cylinder – capped; Down-Under Innovations remote brake reservoir; Clayton Machine Works pedals; Lokar 16 inch chrome brake handle.
SUSPENSION:
Front: Monroe Wylie gas shocks; King ‘super-low’ springs; custom sway bar (Pedders).
Rear: Triangulated radius rods (GJ Sigma); Custom pan-hard bar; Aldan alloy coil-over shocks (adjustable).
STEERING:
Mazda Capella steering shaft; custom alloy ‘honey-pot’ shaft cover; Borgeson stainless steel/polished universal joints and shafts; Holden Torana rack & pinion (shortened); Grant alloy Banjo steering wheel – leather wrapped.
BODY:
All-steel; channelled 3 inches; Sedan to Tudor conversion; rolled front and rear pans; Suicide doors; recessed custom firewall; all new floors throughout; one piece walk-off front end; one piece bonnet – smoothed; all new custom inner guards; custom radiator shroud; tubbed rear inner guards; Bowed rear outer guards (wired); all guards re-radiused; 2004 Mini Cooper headlights; frenched rear indicators - Commodore;1948 Chevy tail-lights (glass); 3rd emergency brake lights (frenched); 1937 Ford outer door handles; remote locking and alarm (Subaru siren); recessed rear number plate; original front number plate bracket; FJ Holden bonnet portholes; custom side glass (coloured); original rear windscreen; replicated front windscreen.
WHEELS & TYRES:
15 x 6 (front) and 15 x 8 (rear) chrome Chevy Rally wheels; BF Goodrich white walls (Antique Tyres); Chevy bowtie moon caps.
INTERIOR:
Custom all-steel dash using 1955 Chevy truck dash; all-steel front to back centre console; TPI ‘Streamliner’ gauges; 1996-99 Honda coupe front seats; custom rear seats; So-Cal alloy dash knobs; Alloy finned A/C vents; Pioneer stereo system (remote) & speakers (colour-matched to interior); custom kick and door panels; All-leather interior – Cherry Red and Ivory suede; custom automotive carpet – red; EJ Holden cargo strips (boot); LED interior/boot lighting; Ford LTD interior (main) light.
OTHER THINGS:
80 litre all-alloy fuel tank; ‘Painless’ wiring harness – modified; Odyssey PC925 battery (floor mounted)
