{"id":51370,"date":"2020-01-23T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=51370"},"modified":"2020-01-22T21:18:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T03:18:14","slug":"custom-pony-car-with-a-chevy-v8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=51370","title":{"rendered":"Custom Pony Car with a Chevy V8"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Arkady Khudobin and brother Dmitry Khudobin own a business making custom fiberglass motorcycle fairings. Several years ago the brothers wanted to build a muscle car that combined design elements from Dodge, Ford, and GM. The project started life as a 1984 Pontiac Firebird and took ten years to transform into what you see. They replaced the factory V6 and transmission with a 5.7 L LT1 V8 and 4L60E four-speed automatic transmission from a 1996 Chevy Caprice. The rear end is taken from an Australian Ford Falcon. The only things left untouched on the body are the windshield, roof, and doors. You can read more about how they build the unique body in Hemming’s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Source: Hemmings Blog<\/a> and Road&Track<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arkady Khudobin and brother Dmitry Khudobin own a business making custom fiberglass motorcycle fairings. Several years ago the brothers wanted to build a muscle car that combined design elements from Dodge, Ford, and GM. The project started life as a 1984 Pontiac Firebird and took ten years to transform into what you see. They replaced… Read More »Custom Pony Car with a Chevy V8<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":51388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-firebird"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":64296,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=64296","url_meta":{"origin":51370,"position":0},"title":"1964 Ford F-100 with a LS1 V8","author":"swaptastic","date":"December 2, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Pawe\u0142 Wasyl Wasilewski built his 1964 Ford F-100 truck called \"The Nuke\" at his company Chester & Wasyl Garage in Poland. 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