{"id":1951,"date":"2008-12-22T13:46:57","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T20:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/?p=1951"},"modified":"2012-08-14T13:19:40","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T20:19:40","slug":"3-steps-to-personalizing-your-hot-rod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/3-steps-to-personalizing-your-hot-rod\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Steps to Personalizing your Hot Rod"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mr_social_sharing_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 --><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.myrideisme.com%2FBlog%2F3-steps-to-personalizing-your-hot-rod%2F&amp;media=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myrideisme.com%2FBlog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2008%2F12%2Fside_view.jpg&amp;description=3+Steps+to+Personalizing+your+Hot+Rod\" class=\"pin-it-button\" count-layout=\"none\" rel=\"lightbox[1951]\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/images\/PinExt.png\" title=\"Pin It\" \/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><fb:share-button type=\"button_count\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/3-steps-to-personalizing-your-hot-rod\/\"><\/fb:share-button><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/3-steps-to-personalizing-your-hot-rod\/\" data-via=\"myrideisme\" data-text=\"3 Steps to Personalizing your Hot Rod\"><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-annotation=\"none\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/3-steps-to-personalizing-your-hot-rod\/\"><\/div><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a class=\"mr_social_share_email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=3 Steps to Personalizing your Hot Rod&amp;body=https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/3-steps-to-personalizing-your-hot-rod\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-sharing-toolkit\/images\/icons_small\/email.png\" class=\"nopin\" alt=\"Email\" title=\"Email\"\/><span class=\"mr_small_icon\">Email<\/span><\/a><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"linksalpha_button linksalpha_link\" href=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/social\/mobile\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/3-steps-to-personalizing-your-hot-rod\/\" data-text=\"3 Steps to Personalizing your Hot Rod\" data-desc=\"I've always liked my car... Good thing, right? I guess I always wanted a hot rod. Bonnie, as in Bonneville, sure has changed since I bought her at a Goodguys show. The 3 pictures shown here are the 3 evolutionary changes of the car. Step 1: As I bought her: I was thinking of buying a Zipper bodied\" data-image=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/side_view.jpg\" data-button=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/images\/social_share_button.png\" alt=\"Share\" class=\"linksalpha_image\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/scripts\/loader_iconbox.js?v=2.4\"><\/script><\/span><\/div><p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/side_view.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1951]\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1953\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" title=\"1927 Ford Roadster, Bonnie as I bought her.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/side_view.jpg\" alt=\"1927 Ford Roadster, Bonnie as I bought her.\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve always liked my car&#8230;  Good thing, right?  I guess I always wanted a hot rod.  Bonnie, as in Bonneville, sure has changed since I bought her at a Goodguys show.  The 3 pictures shown here are the 3 evolutionary changes of the car.<\/p>\n<p>Step 1: As I bought her: I was thinking of buying a Zipper bodied Lakes Modified until I found out there&#8217;s a 6 month wait to get one.  I felt pretty lucky to grab this when I did.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll see the long split wishbones hooked to a 3 inch dropped axle.  The rear axle is a old school banjo.  The wheels are the 1935 style wires with some hard as hell bias ply or tractor style tires.  I&#8217;m not sure what kind of paint the original owner used, but that yellow is tough as NAILS!!  The engine block hasn&#8217;t never changed, but it did get updated. I&#8217;ve got the original header on it too.  The quarter elliptical spring suspension front and back is there, but there&#8217;s friction shocks (only better then nothing at all!) in the front and nothing in the rear.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_1682_cropped_mrim.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1951]\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1952\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" title=\"Bonnie Before Goodguys show all cleaned up\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_1682_cropped_mrim.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Step 2: My Redo:  Since I was never a fan of the wires, even on lakes-style modifieds, I went to 15 inch steelies with wide white walls.  I&#8217;ve always (like so many other people) liked the look of a red wheels with a white wall.  It&#8217;s classic.  I went to radials too.  The front and rear suspension was updated.  The front cause I had to. The axle had a crack in the passenger side king pin bushing.  If that would have failed, the wheel comes off.  NOT good.  I changed to hairpins front and back too.  I like the look of the wishbones, but setup the way they were, the rear axle is bound up.  I found a pretty nasty crack on one side where the rear wishbone mounted.  The rear axle is now an 8 inch with a 4.11 gear.  I installed shocks front and back too.  There&#8217;s alot of pictures of the front and rear suspension in <a title=\"Pikesan's hot rod garage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Garage\/pikesan\" target=\"_blank\">my garage<\/a>.  I built the head from 1\/2 of a small block Chevy kit that I split with a dude on Ebay.  The red paint lasted about 30 minutes.  Still, no interior.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_9479_mrim.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1951]\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1950\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" title=\"1927 Ford Roadster hot rod\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_9479_mrim.jpg\" alt=\"1927 Ford Roadster hot rod - present day\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Step 3: How she is now:  Well, as Bonnie gets closer to being a &#8220;finished&#8221; car, the less interested I am in her.  I still like this car, but I find myself thinking of building\/working on my 63 Falcon wagon and 61 Rambler American wagon more.  Maybe I&#8217;m getting old?<\/p>\n<p>In the latest incarnation, I went to 16 inch steelies with Firestone bias ply tires.  The ones in the back are TALL!  It has a little more rake to it then I&#8217;d like, but nobody else thinks so.  I made a new header a while back, but that&#8217;s changed since step 2.  There&#8217;s more pinstriping on her now and I&#8217;ve added the custom MyRideisMe.com piston logo to the door.  My buddy Joel from 1320 Designs hand painted it for me.  We&#8217;re still planning to &#8220;antique&#8221; it a little.  Last but not least, the interior&#8217;s in it.  More on that later.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?  Which one&#8217;s your favorite?  Have I made steps forward or back?  It&#8217;s all a matter of taste, but that&#8217;s what makes My Ride is Me, right?<\/p>\n<p>Please join MyRideisMe.com and get your own <a title=\"Hot Rods and Falcon Wagon Project\" href=\"http:\/\/www.MyRideisMe.com\/Garage\/pikesan\" target=\"_blank\">Custom Garage Space<\/a> (that one&#8217;s mine!) to put pictures of your car, project or whatever you&#8217;re driving!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"mr_social_sharing_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 --><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.myrideisme.com%2FBlog%2F3-steps-to-personalizing-your-hot-rod%2F&amp;media=&amp;description=3+Steps+to+Personalizing+your+Hot+Rod\" class=\"pin-it-button\" count-layout=\"none\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/images\/PinExt.png\" title=\"Pin It\" \/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><fb:share-button type=\"button_count\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/3-steps-to-personalizing-your-hot-rod\/\"><\/fb:share-button><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/3-steps-to-personalizing-your-hot-rod\/\" data-via=\"myrideisme\" data-text=\"3 Steps to Personalizing your Hot Rod\"><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-annotation=\"none\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/3-steps-to-personalizing-your-hot-rod\/\"><\/div><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a class=\"mr_social_share_email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=3 Steps to Personalizing your Hot Rod&amp;body=https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/3-steps-to-personalizing-your-hot-rod\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-sharing-toolkit\/images\/icons_small\/email.png\" class=\"nopin\" alt=\"Email\" title=\"Email\"\/><span class=\"mr_small_icon\">Email<\/span><\/a><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"linksalpha_button linksalpha_link\" href=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/social\/mobile\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/3-steps-to-personalizing-your-hot-rod\/\" data-text=\"3 Steps to Personalizing your Hot Rod\" data-desc=\"I've always liked my car... Good thing, right? I guess I always wanted a hot rod. Bonnie, as in Bonneville, sure has changed since I bought her at a Goodguys show. The 3 pictures shown here are the 3 evolutionary changes of the car. Step 1: As I bought her: I was thinking of buying a Zipper bodied\" data-image=\"\" data-button=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/images\/social_share_button.png\" alt=\"Share\" class=\"linksalpha_image\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/scripts\/loader_iconbox.js?v=2.4\"><\/script><\/span><\/div><p>Email I&#8217;ve always liked my car&#8230; Good thing, right? I guess I always wanted a hot rod. Bonnie, as in Bonneville, sure has changed since I bought her at a Goodguys show. The 3 pictures shown here are the 3 evolutionary changes of the car. 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