What little custom touches have you done to your cars?

[cobrajeff]

Dan - those valve covers are beautiful! Nice job!

Hyde and Blas -

IIRC (it was over 12 years ago), I think that I slotted the holes in the windshield frame a bit more to get some extra "rake" to the windshiled.



That did, however, present some problems when I went to install my convertible top. I had to cut and modify the top bows to get the top to fit with the raked windshield.



Never have completed the unique side curtains I started to make.

Couple more mods I did during the build:

I sectioned the foot-boxes in order to make room for the 351C:



I think I took nearly two inches out on each side, so that I had room for the headers.

I also made some custom steel valve covers, stripping some stock 351C covers, having additional breathers welded on, and then having them plated cad gold to match my Canton "T" pan. I would have like to put taller "R" Model breather tubes on it, but, with valve cover spacers to clear the roller rockers, I didn't think I had hood clearance for them.



In this pic, you can also see my "big-block" expansion tank that I modified to fit my Cleveland, and the remote oil-filter adapter that I modified to fit on the left cylinder head.

Then there were wheels - I ordered my FIA style Halibrands from Phil Schmidt - two 8.0" for the front, two 10.0" for the rear, and one 5.0" for the spare.





I painted in the GoodYear lettering on all of the tires, and painted on a blue stripe to make them look like BlueStreaks. The lettering and painted stripes held up pretty good, but, since I never got around to a front end alignment, I tore up the front tires in less than 1,000 miles (the rear ones were suffering from lead-foot-itis, I think). The Gatorbacks were hard as rocks, and didn't provide much traction. I replaced them with BFG Euro T/A's, and was able to increase the tire size significantly - going from 225/60x15 on front to 265/50x15, and the rear from 255/60x15 to 305/50x15.

Jeff