Meet “The Seven Year Itch”. This 1967 Chevrolet “Hot Wheels” style is a completely frame off restored truck and has so many tasteful and custom attributes it hurts just thinking about them. Seven Year Itch = a seven year project. It would take a complete evening to simply take all of this truck in and then the rest of the month to truly understand it’s beauty and craftsmanship. This truck was a seven year project that a high end automobile collector invested to make it where it is today. How many times have you heard – “Over $100,000 invested in this collector car” knowing that it was half that amount? This is not the case here.

This truck was built mostly for show knowing it would take the odd occasional drive. This truck can be described as a trailer queen. It was built to be perfect in appearance and to be trailered to shows – not driven to them. The most expensive part of this truck is everything. Everything is as nice as the rest. The truck was completed about 2 years ago and every single show it entered, it took all of the trophies in its class, including but not limited to “PEOPLE’S CHOICE” and “BEST PAINT AND BODY” at the famous Draggins Rod and Custom Car Show. I was at this show and it was the talk of the show. I believe it won around 6 awards at one show in its debut. This is a car show that sees $500,000 Roadsters. In its first showing, this truck was invited to be the spotlight in the Hot Rods & Classics Magazine.

Body Mods and Features

- Top chopped 4”
- Rolled Drip Rails
- Smoothed Door Handles & Tailgate
- Frenched Antenna & Stake Pocket
- Smooth Firewall
- Flush Front and Rear Glass
- One Piece Side Glass
- Hidden Fuel Filler (Behind Back-up Light)
- Custom Side Exhaust exits – electric module turns exhaust to straight header or to exit in front of the rear tires at the flick of a switch
- Full air ride technologies with controls on Key FOB as well as inside truck

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Photography by Kevin Lee

Spectators at the ’09 Grand National Roadster Show (GNRS) were the first to see Jim Benitez’s Model A roadster pickup in finished form. Jim’s newest and greatest creation, nicknamed Faster Pussycat, made its first formal appearance in Pomona, California, last winter-and not just in the show, but among the finalists for the prestigious America’s Most Beautiful Roadster award. This was not, however, the RPU’s first trip to the GNRS. The car was there the year before in unfinished bare metal, and the year before that as a finished frame-both times in the display booth for the Jalopy Shoppe.

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In the Pantheon of American Muscle Cars, the Chevelle has staked a rock-solid position. When it first rolled off the production lines in 1964 you get it with 120hp V6 or, either a 283- or 327- V8, that with the SS set-up would produce 300 bhp. Chevrolet would continue to produce the Chevelle until 1977, during which time it would get ever-increasing boosts of horsepower during the muscle-car salad days of the late sixties, and reach the zenith of it’s performance in 1970 when it rolled off the line with 454 cubic-inches capable of turning out 450 horsepower. As with all muscle cars, the early ’70′s saw a continued roll-back on power thanks to higher fuel and insurance prices, as well as the introduction of smog equipment. When the Chevelle badge was retired in 1977 the basic chassis/body style carried on under the Malibu name–de-tuned and de-fanged.

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Engine Make: Ford
Engine Size: DOHC Cobra 4.6l
Transmission Type: T-45 (5 speed)
Rear End Type: Ford 9″
Body Color: Black
Interior Color: Black/Saddle
Wheel Type: Billet Specialties
Price: $90,000
Pricing Info: Negotiable
Trades: No Trades
Comments: This is one Bad ’37. It was featured on NBC’s hit show Whipnotic. For all the details please give us a call.

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You know of Factory Five Racing (FFR) as the creator of you-assemble-them roadsters (don’t call them Cobras-Shelby gets really territorial), Daytona coupes, and the GTM supercar, but its new car is a whole other ball of wax.FFR owner Dave Smith had always sworn he’d never create a street rod kit, since he hated the way the typical rod rode and handled. But when his director of R&D, Jim Schenck, came to him with a new idea for one, it was obvious what needed to be done. Schenck designed a tube-chassis car that handled like a son of a gun and wore a ’33 Ford suit. In Smith’s words, “Today, most guys get their parts from a variety of sources-say a frame here, a body there, a front end, and so on. Jim pitched me on the idea of using the FFR product template on the hot rod-not a donor car, but rather a complete kit with all-new parts save for running gear.”

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Technically, Warren’s wonder began nine years ago during a student design project at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. The Chrysler Corporation sponsored a design competition at the college and selected then-student Chip Foose’s teardrop-shaped model as the winner. Foose would later collaborate with his father Sam, Boyd Coddington, and Troy Trepanier on a number of trendsetting rods and based his model on the amalgamation of shapes gleaned from a ’33 Plymouth three-window coupe and a ’70 Cuda. In fact, Foose’s model appeared on page 14 in HRM’s April ’91 swimsuit issue and served as a preview of the Plymouth Prowler and the creation of Warren’s Shockwave.