Thelan chopped the steel three-window body three inches, Steve Davis made the three-piece hood with unique "scooped" side panels, and Kenny Youngblood designed the "ZZ" graphics. Additional body details included the filled rear splash pan with recessed license plate, '39 Ford teardrop taillights, and lowered '34 Ford headlights.
Finicky hi-po motors have never been Billy's scene, so the emphasis was on reliability. Power was provided by a simple but capable cid Chevy V-8 with a Camaro Z hydraulic cam , a polished intake manifold with a single four-barrel carb , and a Turbo transmission. A painting of the coupe was featured on the cover of ZZ Top's multiplatinum album Eliminator, and the real car was immortalized on the small screen in four music videos that were run in heavy rotation on MTV.
Each video featured a Cinderella-story vignette in which an earnest but unfairly downtrodden teen is swept away and "saved" by the arrival of beautiful girls in the Eliminator. The members of ZZ Top granted the protagonist a magical set of keys with a stylized ZZ key chain, and the hot rod appeared as a magical fantasy object. Our readers helped us continue this coverage in , and we are so grateful for the support.
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Ironically, Beard never grew that signature white beard that Gibbons and Hill sported in their Eliminator album, and by that time they had left boogieing behind and turned to rock 'n' roll.
In any case, rock and hot rodding tend to go hand in hand and many rockers love hot rods. Billy Gibbons just seems the most passionate of them all. The car was no fiberglass model but the real steel deal. Gibbons also brought in Pete Chapouris, the man behind the California Kid Ford, to help him build an authentic hot rod. The hot rod ran on a Pete and Jake chassis on a dropped tube axle and four-bar suspension in the front.
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