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resides up front. All four corners feature Wilwood wide
Let’s start with the body. The ’36 International et’s start with the body. The ’36 International
pickup is defi nitely not something you see every day. fi ve hubs surrounded by wide racing meats. ve hubs surrounded by wide racing meats.
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It’s chopped 5 inches, channeled 6 inches, and an She gets down the road with alacrity, thanks to the
additional 4 inches has been taken from the bottoms built 350 Chevy, which just happens to be topped with
of the doors. Behind the cab are the remains of a ’59 a 6-71 blower and a 750 CFM carb. And you can’t call a
Impala four door sedan. It was a rust-free, Arizona car race-inspired unless it has a manual tranny, and this
body that Norm found on Craigslist. one does, courtesy of a ’93 Chevy C1500 that donated
The frame was built from scratch out of 2x4 its T-5 to the cause.
tubing. To get that aggressive, ‘stink bug’ stance Norm runs his rat hard, as seen by the many
they put 18 inches of Z in the rear and 5 inches in burnouts he completed outside Steelfest. But that’s
the front. The solid rear axle features a quick change why he builds his cars. “It’s checkers or wreckers,” says
rearend, while a race-inspired torsion bar suspension Norm, and that’s how it should be.

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