Built by Magoo's Auto Shop, Canoga Park, CA, 1984. Original Ford steel body. Featured in Street Rodder, Sept. 1984. Oakland Roadster Show "Best Street Rod" winner, 1984 (Article by Pat Ganahl)
Chev LT-1 350 small-block with 10.5:1 ported heads, Crane roller cam and rockers, Vertex mag, and Inglese 4 x 2 Weber carburetion. Polished Turbo 400 trans. Polished Frankland quickchange rear. Polished stainless exhaust. Super Bell front axle. Four-wheel power disc brakes with Strange rotors and JFZ calipers on Magoo-machined full-circle mounts.
Super-detailed chassis features custom-machined Teflon bushings and washers throughout. The driveshaft U-joints, engine core plugs, and even small Q.C. plugs have machined aluminum covers. All A-N fittings are polished, as are stainless lines and clamps. Suspension 4-bar mounts and other bolts and nuts are countersunk into machined aluminum flush-mount bushings.
Original '29 Ford body features filled grille, hidden hinges, smoothed cowl and beltline with handmade windshield and posts, custom 3-piece hood with hidden hinge/latch, electric trunk, and handmade running boards. The front splash apron and rolled rear pan are hand-formed aluminum, with electric hidden license plate. Perfect paint, top and bottom, is Magoo Porsche Red lacquer.
Sculptured dark tan Connolly leather interior by Denny Nish includes pull-down center arm rest and Wilton wool carpets. Trunk matches interior. A Magoo Auburn-style dash holds VDO gauges, and a leather-wrapped LeCarra wheel tops a custom stainless steering column. Even the unseen under-dash wiring is impeccable.
And of course this smooth, red, quintessential billet-era roadster has to ride on a set of classic Boyd Coddington 3-piece billet wheels. These big-and-little 15 x 9 and 14 x 7 examples were custom-hewn to mount on pin-drive hubs, held in place knock-off-style by one large hex lug each. This pristine street rod is a perfectly preserved example of a historic style now 30-plus years old. You won't find one better.
