5/15/2023 0 Comments Zz top eliminator![]() Metal man Steve Davis crafted a slick three-piece hood, accented with scooped side panels. Thelan sliced 3-inches out of the the steel three-window’s top. First, Chapouris and Gibbons decided that the well-regarded Don Thelan’s Buffalo Motor Cars would do the majority of the work, with guidance from Chapouris. With the well-connected Chapouris overseeing the project, it wasn’t long before a cast of hall-of-fame hot rodders agreed to join the effort. It would be five long years before the car was completed. Gibbons located a donor ’33 Ford from a woman in Tucson, who bought it new, then parked it, which is where it stayed – pristine and untouched – until one long-bearded rock ’n’ roller snapped it up quicker than an ear-shattering guitar solo. ![]() “That’s when we decided to construct this little red hot rod,” Gibbons recalled. Gibbons had met the Kid’s owner, the legendary Pete Chapouris (of Pete & Jake’s fame) a few years earlier at the East Coast Street Rod Nationals. When he saw Martin Sheen’s uber-kool ’34 coupe in the 1974 film “California Kid,” he knew he had to have one. Guitarist Gibbons was always a “car guy,” with a lifelong fascination with hot rods. One that did was the Eliminator Coupe, the vivid red, graphics-adorned ’33 Ford coupe built of Billy Gibbons and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band ZZ Top. But few hot rods have reached across the pages of automotive buff books into the imagination of the general public. There are plenty of famous hot rods – the Niekamp roadster, the Pierson coupe, the Buttera tall T. The Eliminator Coupe: The Hot Rod that Captured the MTV Generation
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