I plan to build a 289 car someday. Wwould it be weird or out of place to build one with the following theme?
Street dash
No Roll bar
Front and rear bumpers
427 side exhaust
Wire wheels
Bill, I think for the most part Unique will build it any way you want with one exception being the rollbar, seems to me that that is not delete-able. Check in the members forums under "Juanone 289 build" for a car that fits some of your description.
Rod
Roseville, Ca.
289 FIA #9152 "The Flintstone Cobra"
We will sell a kit without a roll bar but we do install the mounting hardware, someday someone will want a roll bar on the car.
Alan
Hey Bill,
I've mulled over a similar idea for a future build. I'd build it with skinny thinline whitewalls mounted on 6 X15 original style knock-off wire wheels. Top, side curtains, radio and heater/defroster. Undercar dual exhaust. Kinda like these images but with whitewalls.
-Geary
Last edited by Aggressor; August 14th, 2009 at 10:27 PM.
I like the idea of a "sort of street car" type 289, too, Bill. I have a vision in mind for mine--
Mine would have:
hood scoop
wire wheels
427 style roll bar (or, preferably, a single full width roll bar--I don't care much for the forward brace in the cocpit)
rag top
side curtains
front and rear "bumper bars"
the 289 style side exhaust OR under the car exhaust (kinda like the large single pipe style of 289 side exhaust)
street car dash
Juan's was one incredible build, that's for sure. Then he turned around and sold it.....go figure!!!
Dugly
Last edited by YerDugliness; May 19th, 2009 at 08:23 AM.
YD,E./PNB
"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood..." (Daniel H. Burnham)
Bill D:
You can build it anyway you want - and if somebody says it's wierd, who cares? It's your car to enjoy. Now if you are worried about re-sale value, or flippant comments made by purists, then by all means, build it period correct.
Just my $.02.
Unique 289FIA - Chassis #9229 - Viking Blue
The mid 60s is why Juan sold it, hard to get that for a very nice big block car.
Alan