Here's my hot rod...a 55 Chevy Belair Hardtop. It's powered by a 6-71 blown LS-7 454. Paint is two-tone primer.
 
 

Here's the mill.

And a timeslip (#9323), the Tucson dragstrip is at 3075 ft elevation. And I had slicks on it, they fit in the trunk for the drive up there and back.

The blurb in the September 1997 Hot Rod Magazine (copied without permission)

Here's a "before" picture. It was even worse than it looks.

Fitting the engine mounts and headers:

The inside.  The drivers door is the only original bolt on sheet metal on the whole car!

Most of the way through building the car, there was less than a week to go before it hit the road. The two tone primer came a year later.