Ask the ExpertOn this page, you can ask a personal question of our Expert of the Month by clicking the red line below and typing out your question. PLEASE LIMIT QUESTIONS TO HOT ROD HISTORY AND TRADITIONAL BUILDS. Within approximately two weeks, we will post on the website our Expert's or Pioneer's answers to as many questions as we can handle. This will be in the form of an audio message that everyone can listen to and that can best be heard on a PC with a sound card. Thanks for participating! The dry lakes were Art Chrisman's proving ground and, with his brother Lloyd in a ‘34 Ford coupe, they exceeded 140 mph before World War II. After the War, the Chrisman Garage in Compton began producing serious competition machines. Art became one of the five charter members of the 200 MPH Club driving Chet Herbert's “Beast”. His success on the drag strips was, for a time, unrivaled. In 1955, at Bakersfield, he went 140 mph in the famous “No. 25” that had originally belonged to Leroy Neumayer. Art and team built the Hustler I, powered by a 392-cid Chrysler engine, the first car to reach 180 mph. Throughout the 1950's and 60's, Art competed with the best fuelers in the sport. 
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i am working on a 1950 chevy styleline deluxe and i am trying to make it into a mild custom.my question is what would be the best way to lower this car and keep it as original as possable? i have looked everywhere for drop spendals and lowering blocks for it and have yet to find anything. could you please help me out. im trying to lower it as much as i can but still retain a good everyday and safe drive height. thanks
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How exactly would you describe a Gasser?
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Are you still in the "custom-business" or just doing it for yourself as a passion?
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Hello there from Texas. I saw that a while back you guys got the task of restoring the Ala Cart. I have only seen one picture of the effort. When can I see more?
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Blackie, I have been a fan of your early cars for many years and recently got to meet you at last years Pleasanton show in Aug thru my father and his friends (Hal and Larry) from Tracy and Livermore.
When you built the Shishkabob Special, which won the 1955 AMBR title, what was your inspiration for it and whose kustom/ hotrod work did you admire when you first started building
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Mr.DeRosa, I would like to know how and when you got your start in customizing? I have admired your work for a long time and have not read much about your early days.
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How was the Manta Ray received when new? I know there was other asymetrical designs in the showrod/kustomworld in the sixties (Roths Orbitron springs to mind), but surely none as radical and well proportioned as the Manta Ray.
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Mr. Jeffries
I have been admired the design for your Manta Ray since I first saw pictures of it in a magazine, -especially the fact that its asymetrical. I should very much like to know more about it. I have attached a scan of your drawing on the car which I stumbled over somewhere on the net (wish I had a larger scan). It looked like you spent a lot of time planning the build and drawing it in detail.
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