John Coffeen is the third owner of this 1934 Ford Hot Rod. The car has a fiberglass body housing a "slightly-bored" Ford 302 engine from a 1968 Mustang. The car's interior features seats from an old 72-era T-bird, manual steering and brakes. The transmission was courtesy an old Ford truck, which gives the 3-window coupe lots of low-end gearing for those crowd-pleasing burnouts.
John tells us, "The first thing I did to the car was move the transmission fluid off the radiator into an auxiliary passive finned-cooler. The car sits low and the pavement in Florida gets pretty hot in the warm months so I had to take several steps to reduce the overall engine heat.
"Last year it was electrical. I ripped out the entire electrical system that had been installed, altered and mixed by the two previous owners to a new one that streamlined the wires and cleaned up under the dash extensively. Anyone who has started tracing a green wire to find it as a red wire at the end of the line, knows what I'm talking about."
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John continues... "Right now it's some front-end work. I had a lower tie-rod stiffen up, and in trying to find a replacement, I find it had metric threads on one end and American threads on the other. I never could find a replacement to the front rack [so it] had to be changed out.
"Then, just to keep me exasperated, the steering column was from a Chevy, so I had to find someone to fabricate a rag joint to meld the Chevy column and Ford front rack.
"When it's running, I drive it a short hop to work every day it's not raining. Not that it leaks, but the rain leaves me with a cleaning job to keep the car looking spiff.
"I'll eventually get it repainted, but for now it's a crowd pleaser and a driver pleaser."
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