Doug Coopers 55 chevy

[Doug Cooper]

Steve just got my Super Chevy in the mail congratulations on the cover, great article. Doug

[Doug Cooper]

Thanks for joinning the two threads together!!!

[Doug Cooper]

Thanks to everyone for all the kind words! Doug

[Bow Tie 67]

I think he meant Ditto, twice.

Doug, do you have the car back yet?

Matt

[Doug Cooper]

I think he meant Ditto, twice.

Doug, do you have the car back yet?

Matt

Prior to the Power Tour the plan was to drive the car back from Atlanta Goodguys to New York. With the Bugs we expierenced on PT and only one week between the two events not everything could be debugged and repaired.
Alan got most of the items straightened out for Atlanta but as it turns out there was an internal transmission problem causing a severe vibration. The trans has been changed and the car will be test driven within a few hours.
So the revised plan is to drive the car home from Columbus, Good Guys.
Will we see you in Columbus? if not what's your next event? Doug

[Rybar]

Wow Doug, your 55 is pretty bad-ass! I would love to build a 56 next, I love tri-fives. And yours is executed very well!

[Bow Tie 67]

Doug,

I cant make the Good Guys event, I may do the summer nationals in St. Paul. The next event I know I can go to will be the Run through the hills in Pigeon Forge TN. I still have a ton of work just to get my 69 on the road in primer.

Matt

[dropit69]

hmmm i think im off the weekend of Summer nationals Matt if you need a co pilot..lol..get that damn camaro done i wanna ride..cool to see your are finding all the bugs Doug the way it was drove on power tour was just how all cars should be driven..hard !!!..lol

[Doug Cooper]

I'll be in Pigeon Forge the weekend before that attending the Shades. Maybe I'll hang out [down south]that week and go to The Run through the Hills?

[Doug Cooper]

Wow Doug, your 55 is pretty bad-ass! I would love to build a 56 next, I love tri-fives. And yours is executed very well!

Thanks! Your camaro looks sweet. I really like that red. What brand paint and color is it?

[Bob Johnson]

The B400 ['32] has become a step child. It was cast aside for Bob's Cuda than Ron's '32 and then pushed aside for the "55 construction. It's playing second fiddle to Bob's XLR right now, So NO it won't be in Columbus it might be out late this year maybe next year.

But the '55 will be in Columbus!

thank you Doug for playing 2nd fiddle...The XLR just wasn't going to get done if I didn't carry it to Alan's...now if the other Alan Johnson on the left coast will just get the engine finished and over here..

[Bob Johnson]

what's the deal on the timing on the motor. Alan said that Shiffaroff had told them to keep the timing at 32 degrees total or something...then after you brought it back, he bumped it to 42 degrees or so and the car really responded and quit trying to run hot..Alan said it was much faster too...what was the straight and skinny on that? Alan doesn't build cars that anything hangs down below the chassis...That's a pet peeve of mine...If I look under a car and see anything hanging below the frame, I'm completely turned off ..a real challenge to get a big motor in a car, get it under the hood without an obnoxious scoop on the hood, and have decent ground clearance while the car is still in the weeds..correct wheel and tire package and offsets..Your 55 fits the frigin bill..I was with Doug..in fact had to loan him the CASH money to buy it...now ain't that a hoot..piss ant Bob Johnson loaning Doug Cooper money...yeah...where's my interest??? of course he paid me back the first banking day...goofy thing was after getting Doug the CASH, and getting him over to the guy that had the car, and going thru all that rigmarole I found out the guy was a good friend of mine and would have taken Doug's check if I had known it was him...it was a rust free low mile 6 cyl automatic car...Doug drove it back to Alan's and followed us in it...love the light green...are you going to put the Delray interior in it?

[99 BUCKET]

see the mag. while getting grocerys today. great article, you plan on showing the carnage in up comming months issue?

[Bob Johnson]

is it true that Popular Hot Rodding is gonna due an article on the 55...Damn I can't tell where Johnny's heading the magazine...last few months I thought I was looking at Car Craft..I guess the low buck home built deal is interesting to the majority of readers, but what I want to see is what Trepanier, Moal, Alloway, JohnsonHRS, Brizio, Poteet, and other highly skilled guys have in the works...I can see all the regular stuff at local car shows etc..I want to see something new and innovative..I just can't get fired up looking at a car that's wavy down the sides and looks like it was painted with a pine top and latex paint...even if it was built dirt cheap..especially if it's on the cover. The 55 would be a nice departure...I would like to see Johnny go back to his pro touring roots with some other quality type cars like the 55 in there...I loved the VW article in Hot Rod..Their mix is very appealing to me..heck I even like a quality ricer..if it's done right, i like just about every kind of car or bike..just leave the pro street out of it...in my opinion, it's dead, just no one has buried it yet..love the 55...just like I would have done it ..

[Doug Cooper]

thank you Doug for playing 2nd fiddle...The XLR just wasn't going to get done if I didn't carry it to Alan's...now if the other Alan Johnson on the left coast will just get the engine finished and over here..

Bob you are very welcome. Can't wait to see that thing on the salt, should be pretty neat! Hope I don't catch the bug while I'm out there. Did you get rooms yet?, any space for me or an extra room?

[StRacerDuke]

is it true that Popular Hot Rodding is gonna due an article on the 55...Damn I can't tell where Johnny's heading the magazine...last few months I thought I was looking at Car Craft..I guess the low buck home built deal is interesting to the majority of readers, but what I want to see is what Trepanier, Moal, Alloway, JohnsonHRS, Brizio, Poteet, and other highly skilled guys have in the works...I can see all the regular stuff at local car shows etc..I want to see something new and innovative..I just can't get fired up looking at a car that's wavy down the sides and looks like it was painted with a pine top and latex paint...even if it was built dirt cheap..especially if it's on the cover. The 55 would be a nice departure...I would like to see Johnny go back to his pro touring roots with some other quality type cars like the 55 in there...I loved the VW article in Hot Rod..Their mix is very appealing to me..heck I even like a quality ricer..if it's done right, i like just about every kind of car or bike..just leave the pro street out of it...in my opinion, it's dead, just no one has buried it yet..love the 55...just like I would have done it ..

Couldn't agree with you more.

[Doug Cooper]

what's the deal on the timing on the motor. Alan said that Shiffaroff had told them to keep the timing at 32 degrees total or something...then after you brought it back, he bumped it to 42 degrees or so and the car really responded and quit trying to run hot..Alan said it was much faster too...what was the straight and skinny on that? Alan doesn't build cars that anything hangs down below the chassis...That's a pet peeve of mine...If I look under a car and see anything hanging below the frame, I'm completely turned off ..a real challenge to get a big motor in a car, get it under the hood without an obnoxious scoop on the hood, and have decent ground clearance while the car is still in the weeds..correct wheel and tire package and offsets..Your 55 fits the frigin bill..I was with Doug..in fact had to loan him the CASH money to buy it...now ain't that a hoot..piss ant Bob Johnson loaning Doug Cooper money...yeah...where's my interest??? of course he paid me back the first banking day...goofy thing was after getting Doug the CASH, and getting him over to the guy that had the car, and going thru all that rigmarole I found out the guy was a good friend of mine and would have taken Doug's check if I had known it was him...it was a rust free low mile 6 cyl automatic car...Doug drove it back to Alan's and followed us in it...love the light green...are you going to put the Delray interior in it?

Scott had told me several times to set the timing at 30/32. I questioned him repeatedly because it seemed strange but his answer was always 30 degrees. It's his combination so I went with it, after getting back from Power Tour I called Red [a friend] and the head engine builder at Scott's he said "it needs more timing..."push the total timing up[comp cams told Alan the same thing]that solved the temp and power issues.

Bob thanks again for the cash, the interest payment is for playing second fiddle for the second time in two years. I think we're just going to leave the B400 as a legend...figment of their/our imagination...

[Doug Cooper]

is it true that Popular Hot Rodding is gonna due an article on the 55...love the 55...just like I would have done it ..

Yes, Johnny Hunkins put Rob [a freelance photographer out of Chicago] in touch with me, we set the shoot up for Columbus Good Guys.

Bob, almost the way you would have done it... no delray interior

[Bob Johnson]

Bob you are very welcome. Can't wait to see that thing on the salt, should be pretty neat! Hope I don't catch the bug while I'm out there. Did you get rooms yet?, any space for me or an extra room?

we're working on it...they're hard to come by...anyone on here know of some rooms, I'll take all you can get...

[Bob Johnson]

Scott had told me several times to set the timing at 30/32. I questioned him repeatedly because it seemed strange but his answer was always 30 degrees. It's his combination so I went with it, after getting back from Power Tour I called Red [a friend] and the head engine builder at Scott's he said "it needs more timing..."push the total timing up[comp cams told Alan the same thing]that solved the temp and power issues.

Bob thanks again for the cash, the interest payment is for playing second fiddle for the second time in two years. I think we're just going to leave the B400 as a legend...figment of their/our imagination...

wow...that's pretty good interest for 2 days w/o the cash...Hell my employee would have embezzeled it had it been sitting anyway..I'm kind of weird when it comes to timing...i just keep the distributor loose and move it around at idle, then pull it up until it gets full lead, and set it where it seems happiest...drive it and if it detonates, I back it up until it doesn't rattle...and it never gets in the low thirties ever...usually 37 to 40 or so...Alan said yours liked 42 total...sounds like it might be a bit fat if it likes 42..