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V1 Customs at So-Cal Speedshop in Phoenix!

V1 Customs goes to So-Cal speedshop in Phoenix!

Great work night!

We had a great work night on the bomber last night! Thanks to Ron, Robb, Brandon and Ted....

1st Annual Car Show

1st Annual " Touch. Move. Inspire " car show to benefit the Bobby's Bomber Project. Thanks Quaker Steak and Lube for making it a great success!!!

Bomber is taking shape!

Another great work night Tues, thanks to everybody.

Bobby's sticker in Red.

Here is the Bomber sticker in Red. Looks great! Get yours today and help the Bobby's Bomber Project.

V1 Customs stickers just came in!

V1 Customs stickers are here along with the Bomber's. There is a  Red, White and Blue version seen here. Also,  a Black and White version, with the White being reflective. We can't even describe how cool they are. Be the first to get yours, help the Bomber!!!

Bobby's Bomber stickers now available!

Bobby's Bomber stickers are finally here. You can get them in blue or red. All proceeds will help fund the bomber project, ultimately will go to the American Cancer Society. Get yours today....

We go racing with the F85 Rocket Car!

Thurs took the F85 to Mooresville Dragway, first time racing this year. Weather cleared up and was a perfect temp. Ran three times, each time getting faster! I had installed a different torque converter with a higher stall, definitely launches different.

Bobby's Bomber episode 2

Here is the link to the lastest video of Bobby's Bomber Project.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ofll-fjlXuI

Another great job from Greatshot Productions!

The Mascot has new trans!

The 61 C10 Chevy V1 mascot truck has a new transmission. The truck wouldn't shift out of 1st gear, so it needed some attention. A retired Hendrick race mechanic completely rebuilt the TH350, including a shift kit.
The Chevy will get out of 1st gear now!

Can't wait to get it on the road. We are almost done installing it,  doing it between all the other projects at the Speedshop.

See you at the cruise-in's!!

Great Night with Bobby and the Bomber!

Another great work day on the Bomber. Bobby came and was great support for everybody on the project.
We had a nice chat session with Bobby, opened some boxes from our friends at LMC parts and discussed strategy on going forward with the project. Special thanks to Brandy, she brought some dinner for everybody, topped off with homemade chocolate chip cookies!

Robb and Brandy having fun!

Thanks to everybody who came out. Greatshot productions should have another video out soon, stay tune!

Armored Graphix, onboard with Bobby's Bomber!

Another friend of V1 Customs, Gordon Stegall of Armored Graphix, with his 59 Ford pickup.

John's Woodie!

Part One!

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John Mitchell has a woodie, a 1948 Chrysler Town and Country convertible. John bought this rare car with the goal to drive cross-country with some college buddies after the restoration!

Teardown session for the Bomber!

Yesterday was the first work session for Bobby's Bomber. We had a great day, getting way more done than planned. The drivetrain came out and the bed off.

The fifth wheel ball gave us a fit!

The mighty Olds 455 comes out.

Thanks to Chuck Phillips, Brandon Carpenter and Ronnie Byrant for all their hard work!

Bobby's Bomber project starts!

Our 1965 C-10 Chevy pickup project finally gets underway. We finally started the project after months of planning. The idea of Bobby's Bomber started after we had purchased the truck from a gentlemen named Bobby.  Turned out he was undergoing treatment for cancer. He has hopes of restoring the truck. We asked why he was selling the truck, he said " well, I am running out of time " That hit us like a ton of bricks!
It didn't take my business partner  Robb and I very long to decide that we wanted to do something special with this truck. We contacted the American Cancer Society and told them of our wish. They said "Yes, lets do it " With that, we started calling, and everybody wants to help. As of now, our sponsers include, LMC Trucks, CV Products , 1320 Design,  Charlotte Aircraft and FIY Garage. Many more are in the works, TBA at a later date.
So, with great pride, we were able to kick off our project today. We delivered the truck to FIY Garage. FIY has been kind enough to join in, letting us use part of there garage space to diassemble the truck.Click on http://www.fiygarage.com/ to find out more!
The diassemble process will be ongoing for the next few weeks. If you you would like to help, please contact V1 Wraps ( 704-773-1676 )or FIY Garage ( 980-207-1825 ).  

The Bomber, ready for the tear down!



The friendly crew at FIY Garage



 Stay tuned for updates as Bobby's Bomber takes shape!

F 85 Rocket Car part3

The numbers weren't to bad on the dyno but we knew we had to change the intake manifold, distributor and wires and carb. Off came the edlbrock Q4B, which didn't flow unless you were over4500 rpm. ( not good for an Oldsmobile ) and a stock cast iron intake took it's spot. A brand new edlbrock preformer carb and a MSD 6A box with distributor were installed.
The next step with the drivetrain was the trans. The turbo 400 needed some freshening up, for that it was taken to Rodgers Automotive in Chantily Va. They did an excellent job putting there touches on it. The one thing I was afraid of was getting to much stall in the converter. I went with a 22-2400 stall, but as it turned out, not nearly enough. I had to powerbrake the car in drive, it would not idle unless you had the idle turned up so high so you were killing u-joints when going between drive and reverse and park!
The car had a 3:23  posi, so because of the drivability of the car, I found a 3:91 posi. With that rear, this car will launch!
Our original plan was to build the car so we could race the 1/8 mile, which as it turned out worked quite well. My sons and I will take the car to the track and the rule is , whoever quailifies the car the fastest, gets to run the car that night. Well, my oldest of course always does the burnout from hell ( mainly because he's not     paying for the tires! ) so he get a quicker time. Our times were respectable, but the end of the first season we had tweaked the times down a little.
In this off season we have done some work that we haven't tested to see if there is any positive results. I installed a 3000 stall converter. The drivabililty is much better. 90/10 shocks on the front and adjusted the carb. ( Which actually I have an original quadrajet on now. )
So, stay tuned for the first visit to the track!

F 85 Rocket Car part 2

With the F 85 at home the work began. It  had come with a 6 cylinder, 3 speed auto, no air and a bench seat. But it was original color red car though!
The plan was to take the drive train out and put everything that was taken out of the 70 442 rust bucket. Amazingly, I could not find a buyer for the chevy 6 cylinder, seems all it was good for was a boat anchor!
One of the 455cu engines I had gotten in the deal with my friend was mated up with a turbo 400 and slid into place , along with a 3:23 posi rear.  With all connections made, we fired it up. It ran pretty good, but a knock developed soon. This engine had sat for a long time since the rebuild. Realizing this wasn't going to work, out came the motor and trans.
My friend Jim was kind enough to walk us thru a rebuild of the motor, so off to Hickory we went. Once the tear down was complete, all parts to be machined went to the shop. The boys and I drove back to VA where we took the tranny to Rodgers Automotive in Chantily,Va.
In a couple weeks after the machine work was done, the boys and I went back to Hickory for the big build. Jim has been working on Oldsmobiles forever! He even bought a brand new 1971 Cutlass and drag raced it back in the day. He has since restored the car, but it only has like 20000 miles on it, 1/4 mile at a time!
I wanted the engine to look stock on the outside, but inside was a different story! It was bored 30 over, heads shaved, which brought the stock compression of 10 1/2 to more like 11 to 1. The cam we put in had big lift and long duration.
After the motor was together and painted, ( it looked great! ) we took it back to the machine shop to run on the dyno. Well, the numbers weren't bad considering we had a weird intake manifold that didn't flow very good, bad carb and a old piont distributor with non-matching wires. With the breck in complete, we loaded the 455cu  in my truck for the 5 1/2 hr trip back to Va. 

Chris's Oldsmobile F-85 - Part One

It all started from a phone call from my friend David, he asked if I wanted to bye all his Olds stuff. He was getting into Jeep's and had to make some room. At the time I had a 71 Olds 442 convertible and loved Oldsmobiles, so I thought it would be a good opportunity. We talked some numbers and I hooked up my trailer and my son and I headed for Columbus, Ohio. Once we got home, I had a 70 442 body, 3 455 engs, 2 trans, ram air hood and multiply boxes of parts.
As it turned out, the body had much rust than originally thought. So much in fact that it was decided to scrap the body, that's a lot of rust! Well, the hunt was on to find a better body. My friend Jim, who owns Classic Olds ( In Hickory at the time, but since has moved to Clemons,NC ) had a 70 F85 post car. This car was a 6 cylinder bench seat car, but very little rust. The usual spots behind the front tires, but that was it. The car had virtually no trim, so know where for water to hide. A deal was made and the F 85 had a new home. Jim had bought the car from the original owner who purchased the car from the Olds dealer in Hickory.

Once the car was back in Va, the work began. I had thought from the start this will be a good father-son project, and it was! 

Upcoming at V1 SpeedShop!

Upcoming stories here at the speedshop, will talk about cars and there owners. Muscle cars, classic cars and trucks, anything with wheels.
Our first story will be a Oldsmobile F85, coming soon!