Project Chili Pepper

[TomT]

Great build! I remember seeing the artwork first and wondered when I could see the build in action. Then I see this today and it's like Christmas all over. I love sleepers, my first fast car I built back in '92 was a granny light blue 73 Nova 4 door with baby moons on body color steelies, and it ran 11's with a 406 small block as my daily driver. I've seen 'em in 17, can you get steelies in 18's? That would be trick.

If you haven't seen my thread, my goal is similar to yours, build a car on a budget that I can take to the Holley LS fest. I'm doing a 9" too and notching the frame like the racers but I'm really interested in seeing how yours pans out. I'll be ordering my watts link from SC&C probably next week, so you can follow along over the next few weeks and see if it looks like something you might be interested in exploring.

Lookin' good, keep it coming!

Thanks for the encouragement, Ben.

Cool wagon! I'll check out your thread. I'm a big fan of wagons and sleepers and 4 doors for that matter too.

I've seen "steelies" in larger sizes - 18s and 20s I think. Wheel vintiques used to make them in aluminum but I don't know if they still do (I think they were called "Gennies"). I would like to have an extra set of wheels for the Chili Pepper that look like "Gennies."