63 Dodge 330

Jerry Smith · Post by **Jerry Smith** » Wed Dec 28, 11 11:06 am

Been looking out for an early post car for a while, and when this came up I had to have it,

It was imported early this year by Chris in Sheffield, he's stripped the car and has done an excellent job of putting new floors in, my plans are to resto-mod the car to how I want it, it is a base model car, heater, radio and carpet delete, and was a 318 poly, which is no longer with the car, Chris had all the trim, and it has all bee repaired and polished up lovely, the car is at Craig Elliot's place in Nottingham (red 64 Savoy from the nats this year), Craig is inboarding the springs for me and mini tubbing the car as i intend to run 325/60/15 drag radials on the back, I have bought an A and A crossram which is going on my Indy headed 540, I intend to use this car a lot on the street so have gone back to a .620 roller cam, and I'll be running tti headers not manifolds, this isnt being built period correct. Me and Marc went down there this week and started on the roll cage, havent got that fas as we only had a couple of hours spare but the main hoop is tacked in

and here are a few more pics to be going on with for now

more of the body is stripped now this picture was 2-3 weeks ago

Jerry Smith · Post by **Jerry Smith** » Wed Dec 28, 11 11:09 am

and heres what i want it to look like

GTXJim · Post by **GTXJim** » Wed Dec 28, 11 11:37 am

Love the car Jerry/Marc can't wait to see it at Dragstalgia for a bit of heads up racing

Post by **TyreFryer** » Wed Dec 28, 11 11:47 am

Looks great, he's done a nice job on the floors.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Wed Dec 28, 11 5:42 pm

Nice Car there Jerry!!!

The Gasser circuit is coming alive in the UK!

Good luck with the build.

Bacca is only midly Jealous LoL!

Happy New Year to you and your family.

'If anyone can JERRYCAN'

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Wed Dec 28, 11 6:20 pm

Jerry Smith · Post by **Jerry Smith** » Wed Dec 28, 11 11:45 pm

Jim I think you have the edge with the power, and Bacca no gasser here, Blue you dont have a nice vintage shifter kicking around do you?

RobTwin · Post by **RobTwin** » Thu Dec 29, 11 2:31 am

Not keeping the pushbuttons then Jerry?

Great choice on the inspiration btw, some fenderwells would be great on yours too

Some more inspiration HERE

Jerry Smith · Post by **Jerry Smith** » Thu Dec 29, 11 9:46 am

Possibly keeping the push buttons, just want to get the car done then I may rebuild the box's I have but need a lot of parts, and won't be using fender wells Rob, the inner wings are not getting cut for a few reasons, the main one being I don't like fenderwells

Jon Connolly · Post by **Jon Connolly** » Thu Dec 29, 11 10:02 am

Nice one Jerry

How about a 65 Cornet to tow it to the track

Jerry Smith · Post by **Jerry Smith** » Mon Jan 02, 12 10:11 pm

Nice wagon that Jon, but got enough on with this at the moment, bit more progress made today, Craig has completely bare metalled the engine bay now, and me and Marc went down today and finished making the cage, it is now all tacked in, will fully tig weld it when the cars been on the rotiserie and had the mini tubs and chassis conectors put in, here are a few pictures of the progress
Rear bars

Swing out door bar

Wheels with 325/60/15 drag radials

Jon Connolly · Post by **Jon Connolly** » Mon Jan 02, 12 10:36 pm

Love it Jerry

Nice to see the workshop thread alive again

Are you going Radir front and back ? or Radir and painted steelies ?

Jerry Smith · Post by **Jerry Smith** » Mon Jan 02, 12 10:40 pm

radir or 12 spokes on the front, then as and when i find a set of 15 in steels (with 10" hub cap) i'll be having the steels banded and ill swap and change between the two

Ivor · Post by **Ivor** » Tue Jan 03, 12 9:52 am

Jerry, how about a nice vintage Winters shifter?

Go this one going spare! The red bit is a flip over reverse lockout.

autofetish · Post by **autofetish** » Tue Jan 03, 12 10:00 am

Great stuff really looking forward to seeing how you do the mini tubs.

Keep the pictures coming