1955 Pontiac Redux

I made a big push on the Pontiac over the last couple of weeks, now it runs and drives. There were a lot of details that needed to be sorted out but I made my way through most of them and now it goes down the road all by itself.

To review...The motor is a high compression 1957 Pontiac 347 which has been bored .030 over and has a pretty big custom ground hydraulic cam. Of course, there's a bitchin'  Offenhasuer three deuce setup, fenderwell headers a hydro transmission. We stuck some coil spring speaders in the front springs for now to get the stance up, but I think this will eventually get the full straight axle treatment.

Overall I think it turned out great. The car sounds the part of a  period super stock drag racer and looks like it was found in a Pasadena garage after a long slumber. The car was very solid to start with, when I hooked up the battery top get it running the dome light came on! The radio works, the lighter works, it's a real creampuff.

We added super skinny bias ply tires up front, and raised the front a little with coil spring spreaders.

In the rear we mounted the cheater slicks on the stock Pontiac wheels. These are also bias ply with tubes, these tires are at least 40 year old NOS slicks.

Here's the side with the stock Pontiac dog dish hub caps. It really has the super stock look. Eventually there will be a front bumper treatment of some kind.

Dome light still works after 56 years.

We had to install a fuel pressure regulator to knock the fuel pressure down to 3.5 pounds. The old Rochester 2 Jets do not like a lot of pressure. I took some creative liberties with the fuel line...