My Chopped '55 Suburban

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New Member, showing pictures of my ride.

This was suppose to be a father/son project...got the car as a 14th birthday present, and plans were to put a motor into it and have it be my daily when I turned 16. Well, things got a little out of hand...don't think I drove the car until I was 19-20 for the first time. Since then it's had some downtime and some uptime. Took a few years to work out the whole "everytime you drive it something else goes wrong" scenario, and got neglected while we worked on some other projects, etc. Finally, it's been running real hard the last 4-5 years...put about 10K miles on it. Wife uses it for grocery store and costco runs, etc.

Car is chopped about 2-3" out of the windows and another 2" out of the crown of the roof. Rear door was a clam shell that we welded up and made one piece. Front end is a chubby chassis mustang II piece, motor is a 406" (mild motor, like to drive it way to much so some efficiency was required).

Given the car was built in the mid 90's...there's some stuff I plan on doing in the next 12-24 months. Will be bagging it soon, going to lay the frame (always been a big regret, just no one was doing bags back then....at least without the knowledge that you needed to keep an extra bag in the back because something would bust, etc). Also going with new wheels and tires. I bought these ones in '96 right when boyd went under the first time and they were the last set made. This is why you wait till you are done with projects for wheels...as I would have done an 18"/20" combo instead (these are 17's). Also going to redo the interior.....tweed needs to go Had been contemplating doing something new and leaving this one alone and as is, had been tossing around anything from a '62 cad, doing a '68 camaro pro touring....to a 964 911.....but have decided, this ones been my baby for too long and I'd rather get it to the point that I like it.

Car's been around, grew up in Southern California, just finished spending 3 years in North Carolina with it....now up in San Francisco. Car is driven multiple times a week, has seen rain, snow, hurricanes.....wife regularly uses it for costco and runs to the nursery...and it's always got two kids seats in the back.

Here are some pictures:

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Other projects we've done:

'48 mercury wood (stock appearing, full hot rod underneath)
'58 Eldorado Biarritz
'66 Mustang Vert (resto mod)
'48 MG TC
'65 Sunbeam Tiger (full concours restoration just completed)
'72 Morris Minor (Doing a Honda S2000 swap on right now)