1930 Ford Roadster Pickup.
Truly, one-of-a-kind build by John Barbero at award winning Pyramid Street Rods in Bellingham, WA. John started with SAC rails and stretched them 3 inches. This all-steel body from Brookville Roadster is powered by a 347 roller, small block, Ford with an automatic transmission and a Winter’s quick-change rear. A dropped Magnum axle with So-Cal’s polished front disk brakes hidden inside the Buick drums.
This phantom roadster pickup was dreamed up—and built—by John Barbero, owner of Pyramid Street Rods in Bellingham, Washington. After creating award-winning hot rods for many of his customers, Barbero decided that he wanted a roadster of his own. But his own couldn’t be something ordinary, it needed to be unique.
The steel body perches on a Pyramid-engineered chassis. Barbero started with SAC ’32 rails, stretching them 3 inches and moving the rear axle position forward 1 inch, then connecting the boxed ‘rails with his race car inspired crossmember system. Traditional hairpins locate the axles at both ends. The front axle is a 6-inch drop Magnum tube, with Magnum spindles and Panhard bar, plus a mono-leaf spring and SO-CAL tubular shocks. The rear is a Winters quick-change with 3.42:1 gears and a Trac-Lok limited slip, hanging on Strange coilovers. The wheels are a custom set of Schott Billet Modsport Cover-LocSeries, rear 18x8 with Firestone dirt track tires 8.20.18, while the front custom wheels are rolling on c one of a kind three piece billet 17x4.5 Schott Modsport’s with Firestone 4.15.17 tires.
The body is based on a steel Brookville Roadster '30 A highboy RPU. Dropping it on SAC Deuce 'rails and adding a Deuce grille contributes to the roadster's identity. The three-piece hood is custom made and punched with louvers on the top and sides. The body was stretched and the cowl had to be reshaped to accept the DuVall windshield provided by Dave York. A pair of '29 Model A headlights were mounted on the framehorns; taillights are '37 Ford.
Kenny Gilmore handled much of the custom metalwork, with Warren Johnson and Earl Neyrend of Pyramid Street Rods also getting credit for the amazing bodywork. Neyrend followed the '30 into the spray booth where he shot the PPG Nightwatch Blue paint. Afterward, Mitch Kim from Clackamas, Oregon, added pinstriping to the frame, louvers, body panels, and dash.
The mill In the roadster is a 347-inch Ford Windsor engine, assembled by Tyler King in Bellingham. Running a COMP cam and roller rockers, 10:1 Ross pistons, Eagle rods, and a Scat crank, it’s more than enough to keep the thrill factor at a peak. A team of thirsty Holley 2300 carburetors on a 3x2 Ford intake manifold handle the mixing chores. Pyramid built the exhaust tubing, connecting Patriot headers to a pair of glass pack mufflers.
The interior was designed by Eric Brockmeyer, and fabricated by Rosie and the team at Fusco Upholstery & Auto Trim, Pompano Beach she modified the Glide bench seat and covered it in rich tan leather, inserting the vintage Sapphire Blue design, extending the pattern to the inside panels. Rich blue was selected for the German square-weave carpet as an addition to rich nostalgic look, the environment is cool and comfortablemore of the leather finishes on the luggage-inspired cover for the custom aluminum fuel tank in the bed. The bed Oak boards were also covers in leather to finish off the incredible look, then they designed and built a custom top out of the same leather that is used on the interior, and finished it off on the headliner with high grade suede, which gives the interior an incredibly rich finished look and smells awesome.
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