My father-in-law built the car. I inherited from him. My father-in-law is Scott Ellis.

Forty-six years ago, when Scott Ellis was 35, he set out to build something that was never seen, heard, or done before.  This was his second at-home hot rod build. A year or two before he built a similar T bucket called Strip T. After Strip T was built, he knew he wanted to build something longer, lower, and louder. That was his motivation for creating Low Blow.

Scott was a Framer by trade and would work till 6 at night, get home and go into his shop, and work till midnight on his new creation.

Being a framer and understanding angles and cuts, Scott snapped out the lines for his frame on his garage floor. He built the whole frame out of wood.  He purchased a 426 motor out of Easton, then placed the motor on the floor. Scott found a transmission from a local junkyard. After that, he located the rear end and placed it where he thought he wanted it for the build. Scott then went to work to get heights clearances and widths to get everything to fit in place.

Once the mock-up was complete, another friend of his Joe Victor located all the metal needed to now build the frame out of steel. Following the wood mock-up. After the frame was built, the car went to Art Whipple who helped Scott build the motor. The top was made out of glass because the body had been cut down the middle and 8 inches was added to the width. This was to accommodate the transmission which was only a few inches off the ground. It was sent out to paint by another friend.

Since the original build in the seventies, only a couple of changes were made; the fuel injection was upgraded and the top had to be rebuilt. This happened while I was driving the car one day with Scott.

Mind you, up until this time no one had ever driven Scott’s Car. We’re flying down the frontage road near his office, the top wasn’t battened down and it flew off. It went at least 50 feet into the air. I was devastated, to say the least. On my first chance to drive the car, I literally blew the top off.

I had to start looking for a fiberglass guy and a painter.  I happened to live down the street from an old guy that use to be a flat bottom boat builder, I visited him and showed him what I had done to Low Blow. He took a few minutes to examine the top and said no problem leave the top here and I’ll fix it.

The repair went great and now the top has fasteners that help the top to the car to lessen the chances of it happening again.

When Scott had the car he traveled the country visiting hundreds of them over the years. But not one time did he ever enter Low Blow in any of the shows. He just loved watching all the attention it got wherever he showed up with the car. To this day, wherever that car shows up, it’s a show stopper.

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