I have a friend that he's an old school racer and he was telling me how green race cars
are bad luck and so we decided to paint the car green and we wanted to give it a name
that kind of reflected bad luck like bad energy so we came up with Bad Juju we thought it
sounded cool and we kind of played off the name a little bit put lucky up here on the
door because of the whole luck thing we got a rabbits foot on a keychain and all that
just kind of play around with the name a little bit my buddy Paul did the lettering on it
it looks great and put a guy kind of freaking out down here like he's got some bad stuff
going on with him we just kind of threw some ideas around this is my second year at the
Holley Hot Rod Reunion I think this is about the best event in the country for the nostalgia
stuff last year I was here with a friend helping with his two nostalgia race cars I had this
car at home and so when I got back home we started working on it real hard I wanted to
have something here of my own this year and I had this old car around just busted tail
getting it ready to get it here to the show this year right now I've got an 850 double
pumper it's worked great I had a different carburetor on there and we just couldn't get
it tuned right we had some issues with it it was bad quality and I just went back to
what would be the period correct carburetor which would be you know a Holley double pumper
they're legendary so we put an 850 double pumper on there and did 10 minutes of tuning
to it the car I got a real radical cam in it the carb works great didn't have to do
a lot to it it really fits the vibe the classic old gold Holley on there it hasn't been on
a dyno or anything the heads came off another motor that had been dynoed it probably makes
maybe 550 at the flywheel just guessing I would guess it probably weighs 2900 maybe
3000 it's got fiberglass parts on it all the stuff the straight axle front end and everything
makes it a lot lighter aluminum heads and aluminum water pump and all that takes a lot
off the big blocks and lightens them up quite a bit we tried to make it pretty well period
correct theirs a few little things on it that aren't quite correct but we thought we got
it pretty close it's got a solid lifter big block Chevy motor in it like a 13-1 it's got
old winter snowflake aluminum heads super T10 12 volt we tried to hunt down some period
correct parts for it and make it match that vibe I love magnesium wheels so I got in the
rear in the rear I have real 60's torque thrust magnesium wheels and you couldn't come up
with any skinny ones for the front so we did those to make them look like magnesium until
I can come up with some real ones which they're like kinda hard to come up with what I did
I cut the front suspension off the car and I hand made everything on the front of the
car the frame rails the motor mounts and all the spring mounts and all that I used a 57
Chevy truck axle and drilled the holes in it so it looks cool and I used a newer style
steering box that I built to work backwards to run the drag lengths and tire rods and
that kind of stuff speed way springs quite a bit of hand fabrication to it took me several
months to do it by the time we got done with all the fab work on it it turned out nice
and I wanted something really clean