Intimadatorsquizz... For some odd reason all my hotrods have been Black. When I bought our 2005 hemi magnum, we tried out a black one, but my wife and some others thought it looked too much like a hurst. We went with the inferno red instead.
Kevin54... LOL about the backing in the fairlane to fool it. I had the hose stretched out across the floor and was coiled up in the other bay. We were supposed to get a hail storm so I put my truck inside, ran over the coil and it rang like three times pulling in.
As far as the GOT PP plates is concerned, I usually say "the DMV wouldn't let me have "GOT BALLS", but the real reason is... I bought the car from a great friend of mine who had it for over 20 years. We have built several cars together and he is a genious when it comes to cars. He needed to make room for other projects and decided to sell it. I was hotroddless at the time and he made me a great deal. Years before that he pulled the original motor out and was running a 428 in it. When I went to pick it up, he was concerned cause the oil was milky. We changed it out and checked it , seemed okay so off I went with it. Well to make a long story shorter, found out a factory casting blem developed a crack in the block and was seeping antifreeze onto the cam and crank thus bad things happened. He told me not to worry, he had the original 390 and he would fix it. I told him I would like to be involved in the tear down and rebuild of the motor cause I never have gone to that extent. We bored it .060 over, enlarged all the oil journals, I told him I wanted it bulletproof as I intend to pound the snot out of it. He laughed and said "okay... Cool" The only operations we couldn't do ourselves was the honeing. Got that outsourced at Craiger Race engines. He couldn't believe we bored it out and how true the bore was. (He used I believe an old Van Norman ? boring bar) anyways new parts came...put it back together did a quick timing on it and headed down the road for a test. I told him It's good but it didn't seem to have the PP the other one did. Brought it back and made some adjustments tried it again and Wow! Now it does! Thus Got PP stuck. I have to explain the plates at about every event I take it to. When little old ladies ask.. I tell them Got Plenty of Power LOL!! It's a 390 bored out to a 413 - dual 600cfm edelbrocks, offenhauser intake, holley mechanical pump, headers and we figure close to 500 horses.
And....like I said before in another thread, you have a great car. That bell brings back some memories. Going to tech school I had the opportunity to work part-time at a full service station.