Troy Trepanier is well - make out among hot rodders for his cutting - bound street car . As proprietor of Rad Rods by Troy of Manteno , Illinois , Troy has never lay tradition luxuriously on his lean of priorities . That is , until Roger Ritzow of Franklin , Wisconsin , asked Troy to build him , " a squeamish little Deuce two-seater . "
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The project begin with a Pete & Jake ’s procreation Deuce frame . To get the right stance , Troy and task manager Levi Green change the physical body to lower the car front and rear . At the back , they incorporated three - inch kickups and notch the frame rails to permit the bod to sit lower on the axle .
They also installed a Model A rear crossmember , a Posies Super - Slide leap , a Dutchman quick - change rear remainder , and ' 36Fordpickup rearward spoke gat . Up front , Rad Rods thinned the physique rail one inch and gave them a two - inch kickup . They establish a custom crossmember , another Posies spring , a modified Super Bell axle , and ' 40 Ford wishbone . It was all moderately traditional , really .
Thebrakesand trilled ancestry were also given a traditional aspect , but they ’re far from it . Rad Rods installed Wilwood disk brakes up front and hid them behind custom - made Buick - style finned " drum " by Billet Specialties . Billet Specialties also chip at 16x5 - in front and 19x7 rearward wheels from billet aluminum .
The roulette wheel mimic vintage Ford steel wheels and accept stock Ford hubcaps . The " trimming ring " are not disjoined at all . Rather , they were machined into the wheels ' boundary . Rad Rods paint the wheels tan and mounted them on vintage - style Firestone preconception - ply tires by Coker .
Troy and Levi trim back and invoke the Brookville blade body ’s rearward fender give away two inch so they would outline the tires . Up front , they chopped the windscreen two inch , smoothed the firewall , invent a stretch goon , and installed commercial headlights with sectional buckets on custom - made unstained steel headlight stands / shock mounts .
A passel of subtle employment was done to make the back stream better . In summation to recessing the permit plate and frenching the ' 39 Ford rear light , Rad Rods qualify the body to enclose around the gas tank , which was also reshaped . The body was finished in subtle gray - green Glasurit rouge .
Rad Rides teamed up with Bob Sweeney of FXEnginesto make the 1949Mercury260 - cid flathead V-8 . Performance parts include Edelbrock head , JE pistons , and an Iskycam . The vintage Hilborninjectorstacks kept their functional butterfly , but modern electronic injector and fuel track were hidden below the injector stack mounting plate .
John Meaney work up a modern EFI dominance system to make it all work . Rad Rides made the headers , and connect the locomotive engine to a Tremec five - speedmanual transmission . Any locomotive engine or soma constituent that would typically be chromium-plate was instead give a nickel-plated satin finish . When possible , the wiring and plumbery was hidden , and the modernspark plugwires were roll in textile for a vintage look .
Jim Griffin Interiors stitched the green - dyed buffalo - leather interior . The instrument cluster came from a 1933 Plymouth . A So - Cal Speed Shopsteeringcolumn was clear with a ' 40 Ford - way billet steering wheel by Giovanni . And as the final nod to both the past and the present , a vintage auxiliary warmer was fitted with forward-looking verbalizer and a pull - onignitionswitch , then installed under the dash .
Though it had chasten paint and pernicious details , Ritzow ’s Deuce still managed to stick out out from the crowd . Goodguys named it Street Rod of the Year for 2004 .
The footling buggy go under new standards for flux the old with the novel . well identify as " high - tech traditional , " the car ’s look is root in the 1940s , but it utilize modern construction techniques and benefits from state - of - the - art technology .
