The chassis is based around a pair of American Stamping 'rails bent into place by Dennis Lesky and son Matt at Ionia Hot Rod Shop (Ionia, Michigan), who provided the 'rail, belled boxing plates, and K-members. The Speed Kings fabricated, welded, boxed, lengthened, kicked (2 1/2 inches at the firewall), and pinched the frame. Just your basic hot rod mods! They also stretched the wheelbase to 112 inches (approximately 5 inches longer than stock), step-boxed the frame, and built the frame with lots of old-timey looks (round head rivets, belled K-member). The front crossmember is another scratch-built item from the Speed Kings staff. The frontend utilizes a '37 Ford tube axle (one year only for the V8/60 cars) coupled with Pete & Jake's (Peculiar, Missouri) spindles, POSIES SuperSlide spring, modified Speedway Motors (Lincoln, Nebraska) friction shocks, '40 Ford drums, Schroeder (Burbank, California) side steering, '39 Ford steering column, and a Kugel Komponents (La Habra, California) master cylinder and swing pedal assembly. The coupe rolls around on familiar rubber with Coker 4.50x19 Excelsior's (four-ply nylon) mounted to 4x19 wires in front, and in back, Coker 6.50x20 Firestones are mounted to 5 1/2x20-inch rear wires. The one-of-a-kind Rolls Royce-style aluminum wheel covers carry out both the vintage and racing themes nicely.
The body began life as a collection of pieces from Brookville Roadster (Brookville, Ohio). The idea was to complete the half-car that was such a success at SEMA and other shows like the Detroit Autorama. Beginning with a floor full of sheetmetal, other items, such as the nose, dashboard, and 31-louver hood, were all scratch-built to go along with the project. From here, Josh and Jamie Reedy got to work giving the coupe a slant chop-6 inches in front with a laidback A-post, and a 5-inch chop in back. From here, the hood came to life after two stock hoods were cut up and put together featuring 31 louvers, while the grille is another Speed Kings item called the Rocket, displaying 32 teeth.
The bodywork is yet another Speed Kings in-house project, handled by Jamie, while Josh tuned up his spray gun to apply the gold and ivory colors. Josh also applied all of the lettering and related artwork to the final sheetmetal. The headlights are '36 Ford with Vision X (Kent, Washington) parabolic reflectors and HID bulbs; the taillights are genuine vintage aircraft lights. The door handles are '34 and the mirrors are more vintage peeps. Look above the doors and you will see the famous yet hard-to-find Les Noyes-the driver of record for the Dynaliner-but we think you can "see" right through this humorous note.
On the subject of the rearend, it is based on a Dick Spadaro Early Ford Reproductions (Altamont, New York) Winters quickie with 3.78 gearing, '37 Ford bells, and early Ford axles. Other rearend items include a POSIES (Hummelstown, Pennsylvania) SuperSlide spring, '40 Ford drum brakes, and scratch-built wishbones by the guys at Speed Kings. The Vintique 17-gallon gas tank was notched to clear the quick-change.