Putting shoes on the Pony

We needed to get this car back on the ground because we couldn’t reach the roof to do the body work, and I got tired of standing on a bucket, so we painted all the suspension parts and installed them. Up front the car features dropped spindles from Fatman Fabrications and a one inch lower coil spring.

Because we want this car to perform as good as it looks,  all urethane bushings were used.  Disk brakes are a necessity for stopping this wild horse … and we got them at all four corners.

Out back we used the stock leaf springs with a 2″ lowering block, to compliment the lowered front, to give the car a hunkered down look that says, “Yeah … I’m bad.”

We got show … we got go … and we got whoa

The truck left the shop today, headed to the upholster. We were in a dead race to see if we could get the wheels, some really nice Foose wheels, back from the tire shop and on the truck before the transporter came to pick the truck up. We made it, but not by much.

The first picture was actually taken a little earlier in the build, when the front suspension was installed. The second was taken today while waiting on the wheels.

As you can see, this truck has some serious whoa to compliment all that go because going is optional … but stopping is mandatory.