Our Shop Got Some Press for One of Our Wagons!

Hot Rod Magazine liked one of the cars our shop (MO's Speed Shop) built and took with us in our caravan on the Hot Rod Power Tour.

The write up is here:

http://blogs.hotrod.com/wagons-and-...?sm_id=social_20140612_25823726#axzz34NpyJSnW

We put an LS3 and a 4L60 in the car. We also added AC and a 9 inch rear among other things.

This is one neat car!

 

Congrats, epic cool!

 

Is it a real doorslammer or are the doors welded shut? And what did you do about the frame, because that fire-breathing grocery-getter is launching level....

 

No welded doors on this fully dressed and outfitted wagon. Heck, your mom could get in this car and drive it where ever she wanted.

We used some our secret sauce on the suspension!

 

So the suspension counteracts the frame flex on launch?

 

Approximately. 450 to the tire and the car ran 12.30 spinning and launched flat. I'd say it is working.

 

Nice job on the 56!

 

Wow! All that drool material and no bibs! Thanks Marty.

 

Marty I don't normally like tri-five Chevys but love this wagon.
It really is amazing how flat out it launches.
I do wish my mom had it so I could go shopping for her. Sadly mom is not with us anymore and probably wouldn't even let me sit in the wagon.

 

That's gorgeous!!

 

I don't doubt that. Mom bought a brand new 1980 Silverado pickup for her and Dad's 25th anniversary (guess which color?). So guess who got yelled at when he bought a bag of chips and a soda and proceeded to eat and drink when Mom was in a doctor's office? I had to go stand outside and finish them, then brush myself off before I got back in. All for a fancy dancy Chebby pickup.

I totally agree with Cat (perish the thought!); it's why I kept asking about the frame, since it would launch flat. What tires are on it?

 

No chips or soda in a Chevy pick up? I don't know why but I still remember this older kid in high school with a late model Chevy truck. Few high school kids drove a truck. After all we were city slickers.
It always looked clean. One day I was at the filling station where he worked and he was hosing it out with the shop garden hose. I thought he was crazy. He showed me it had rubber on the floor and the water just ran out the other side. Even the bench seat sat up on little legs.
Not in today's trucks!

 

That's right, no chips, no soda, and since Mom owned it, only her favorite station on the radio. And I forgot to mention that it was a dealer demo with 230 miles on the clock. I never knew what the price was, but she finagled a scary good price on it, and traded her parents' '66 Delta 88 on it (I sooo wanted that car for my first one). So since it was hers, she made the rules.

Now, it's owned by friends of Dad's (Mom passed away many years ago) down in Mexico, who painted it bright yellow and named it "La Bomba Amarilla." I don't speak Spanish, but I think that's how it's spelled.

 

Now they eat nachos and tacos in it and drink beer.

 

Ya know, I'll just have to tell Lorenzo you said that. But don't worry; he has a sense of humor, as the name translates to 'Yellow Bomb,' or something like that. After all, he's been a foulweather fan of the Seattle Seahawks since they started.