Altered Wheelbase Project.

No cream puff for sure! But, a very rust free California car, and it makes a huge difference when you start cutting up a car,only to find a quarter inch of bondo in the very spot you want to section! Fortunately, mine had none, but Steve's had some. Actually mine had never been hit it seems, but the trunk gasket failed, allowing some moisture in the rear of the car, but very little.

In regards to front axle location, you hit it right with weight transfer. The very reason for Esserman, Billy Jacobs Kid Goat, and the Liberty Motors Corruptors Pup builders to locate that Dodge A-100 axle where it is. Which, by the way, is what we used. A donor Dodge Van front axle assembly from the local pick your part. To make them fit the smaller A-bodied cars, 5.5 inches needs to be removed from the center. I've since built a jig that facilitates doing this with any early straight axle. If this is not done, the front wheels have this trippy look by hanging outside the front fenders. Kinda like the pre-runner truck look! Yikes. By the way, Econoline axles appear to be forged by the same people, so keep a look out for those. But, if we go this far, why not keep it pure Mopar, right? Very few builders took the time to "make 'em purty" back then, so sectioning the front fenders to center the wheel was only done by a few. These cars were butch back then. "Go fast and Win Big"! My There was alot of experimentation back then, and no doubt we'll be tweaking ours as they start to come around.Many race cars were 'near-steer' making for nasty handling on the big end. Ours are cross-steer, which has new obstacles to overcome. It seems every time I turn a wrench on it, there is a new obstacle. If it were easy, we'd all be driving them,right??