Greenline gauges, Sirius satellite radio hooked to a Blaupunkt sound system, a Uniden CB radio, a Hurst shifter, a dash mounted electric defroster, and a stop light prism. The car runs both 6-volt (horns and electric coil defroster) with a generator and 12-volt everything else on an alternator. The beauty of Skip’s street rod is that even though things have changed over the years, the visual and visceral feeling of the rod has never changed.
Agawam, MA, in 1972. Skip first hired people to fix the paint, but they failed so Skip has repaired the paint extensively over the years including minor accident damage. The rod started with Caddy wheel caps and ran Americans for a short while, but the US Mag hot rod standard five-hole aluminum wheels have been on the rod since the ‘70s. The classic interior features recovered ’78 Corvette buckets, a full set of Stewart Warner
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