yeah
everybody's mad formation the company we're at SEMA 2013 and when you're
walking around you see all kinds of Camaros and typical card to see every
year the Studebakers you don't see too many student acres especially like this
with the Builder Kurt from hills Rod and Custom do and thanks man and he's going
to tell us about the car thing caught my eye sunday when i was walking around you
just pull the cover off of it
this thing is so killer so many cool things going to 120 credit hours the
story models so what's the story behind finding a car and you know how how you
went about building it so what we got here is that Dennis Barney bought this
at an auction five years ago he jumped person collection they started it
we went ahead and threw up concept of what it was gonna look like we started
out with the front-end 51 Studebaker made custom bumpers in the front all
from scratch
try to keep the Studebaker look in the front with a bullet nose went ahead and
put 37 forward front headlights on it
chop the windshield leaned back and decided to make it a Fastback woody
repaired some pieces on the car basically from here up this whole piece
across the top many new piece that was all rusted-out found a stock stainless
for around the windshield shot cut that down polished it and then went ahead and
start laying out the back the rear fenders are a Studebaker fender that
have been shortened went ahead and you know made up this quarter window all
this steel around that I've gotta Morrison chassis that we expect out for
the car so and the note that the most obviously jumps value it's a woody right
didn't you know
this wasn't something that came like that originally what made you decide to
for the customer decided to do it has a wooden what was the process I mean this
is a lot of wood on this thing
yes so with the woody it started out the concept with the we bought was started
out with the wood we went ahead and made all steel tubing around underneath the
wood so there's a structure and the wood bolts down to it all this wood right
here is all been hand ground you can see the curve in the wood
it's a quarter-inch thick and we started out with thick piece is a wooden a hand
ground all the panels in it they actually see this i got shape down like
it was shaped phone for a seat or some correct yeah okay so this wasn't and we
were talking earlier about this wasn't something people think of shaping would
wear your gold time way of getting wet and yet
screaming it yeah you know we we cut it out and shaped by hand so that's really
cool so what type of what is this that you know we have wavy maple on the frame
here and then we have mahogany in the middle and it's stained and then it has
an automotive clear on it so it can hold up to the elements that customer plans
on driving across country to a bunch of shows and using it after we take it to
all these indoor car shows that was a so the rear hatch what we got here the tail
gate opens up first and then the rear hatch lifts up from there
as you can see the wood on the inside is the same as the outside so it's all
clear coated and custom latch here we we made to make all that work using chains
kind of the old-style will have upholstery over these so they don't
scratch the paint and everything
the other thing on the back of this thing is we have the rear fenders they
come out and from here down we made the whole rear fender custom taillight
bezels the lenses all of the exhaust tips and the rear pan everything has
been made back here
so the last thing that caught my eye obvious that we have a wound into the
under the boy
yes a little bit of a story to the engine it's under here it's not a
Studebaker can you give us a you know shows the engine and absolutely love it
when I spotted this I took a couple of photos
sunday was a one on our Facebook this kind of tease useful customers see
wasn't we got some outlandish answers what they don't have one what's that
what is the engine is under here what's this injection system this is a dead so
400 basically an fe motor and the injection system was built by aircraft
mechanics back in nineteen fifty-nine and the point of them the injection was
to have twenty-five percent more horsepower and twenty-five percent more
fuel economy and they designed it
they claim that they made three of them this is the only one that I know of in
existence so the owner was I just want me 30 years ago and saw this thing
sitting in a stall and new he saw it somewhere so he went ahead and purchase
it very little money and put it on a dummy block in his shop and then looking
at the last 30 years and he knew he saw it somewhere when I went back home and
found the hot rod magazine it was on the cover of hot rod in 1959 the junit june
month so what we did was all these were manual injectors up top
ok and we went ahead that obviously wasn't gonna work driving on the street
so we put new injectors down in the middle while the men but you can barely
see them with the computer controlling it so you can actually drive it on the
street which we plan to do very cool so have you guys done any kind of dyno
tuning or anything that to see what's yeah we had this thing the motor guy
damn Brewer it works on it
Schaefer I racing engines and now I ok they'd i know'd it it made 390
horsepower and 425 torque so and that was very little tuning because we were
on a time crunch trying to get this thing done and it's not quiet
it's going to turn some heads it looks it looks like the car looks like i'll go
fast and i think this motors gonna do the same
thank you for showing this is one of the constant absolutely thanks for having me