between the rails has had just about every cool induction system ever made, including a real 4-71 blower, triple deuces a few times, a 6-71 blower, a four-barrel and Tuned Port Induction from an ‘80s Corvette. The car now runs a ZZ4 powerplant with ‘trips’ and a DUI distributor. The early small-blocks were backed up by a Turbo 400 trans, but in 1991 Mike discovered overdrive with 700R4. When Mike bought the car, it had a 4/6-inch angled channel, a four-inch chop and a shortie grille. Mike won a Chevy V-6 NSRA Super Prize in 1983 and was able to trade the engine for a complete set of Wescott fenders. The car stayed fendered until it became a highboy again in the ‘90s and then went full In a classic Gray Baskerville move, Mike got a feature in Hot Rod Magazine (August 1987) when Gray was standing at the exit waiting for cars to leave an event. When Mike came by, Gray snagged him and the sinister coupe, pulled them off to the side of the road and shot the feature right there. Other than the squiggly designs and some cool accessories, the rod is the same until it goes orange (sorry, no pictures).
and ’34 Commercial lights featuring turn signals sitting on a shortened and lowered headlight bar that goes straight into the front fender brace bolt. Turn signals also are located inside the custom stainless spreader bar. When Mike first converted back to a fendered coupe he straightened out the chop and got the body aligned to perfection (Mike’s way). The rod has had almost every paint fad imaginable over a solid color, from scallops to flames, to ‘80s squiggles, but now she glows with owner-sprayed R&M single stage Urethane in Fleet Maroon. Mike got a job at AT&T after he returned from Vietnam, but after he’d put in his years he retired Mike’s friend, Bob K, said he had made a great color based on his wife’s fingernail polish. Mike loved it and the ‘90s version was painted up (light pastel blue scallops on black). This time Pat Ganahl of Rod & Custom magazine loved the rod he saw at the Street Rod Nationals South in 1991, shot a feature that ran in the October 1991 issue just months before I started at Rod & Custom. Here it’s seen in the “Flood of ‘92” in Louisville before massive re-construction fixed the drainage problem.
and started doing upholstery during the ‘90s as a relatively young man. As you can imagine, the upholstery has changed tons over the years, but mostly in details. Mike slipped in a set of Recaro buckets during his 1984 rebuild, and they stayed there for years (they really are great seats for skinny guys and gals). Once the Recaros no longer I told you it never stops and by the mid ‘90s the ’32 was a black highboy with flames. The open wheel Heidt’s SuperRide IFS really shines on this build, along with Halibrands fit with faux knockoffs, and the louvered hood sides are back.
fendered again for the new millennium. The Deuce now features steel front fenders to match the Henry Ford body, an often repaired and replaced Brookville splash apron and the Wescott bobbed rear fenders. The body features molded mirrors, trunk louvers by Gary Heidt (Gary punched louvers before opening Heidt’s Suspension), louvered hood sides on a custom four-piece hood, filled drip rails, a rolled rear pan to match the bobbed fenders, a filled top insert, a handmade rear bumper contoured to the body, frenched in ’39 Lincoln taillights
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