he deuce coupes pictured above are really nice - looking a lot like the originals. But, many of them in the 50s and 60s, when "rodded," were cut-gown and without some of the original aspects - like fenders - and eventually could be seen in all sorts of reduced/altered configurations. Probably can find a ton of such examples on the picture net.
In the case of those with some jingle to toss, the flat head V8s were replaced with later year OHV Ford and other OHV engines. Lincoln Zephyr gears, bigger headers, dual quad carb setups, radical cams, etc. etc. Lots of jargon did accompany that scene. Porting was opening/smoothing the fuel intake pat, relieving was doing about the same for the exhaust. Do you recall "chopped and channeled" - and "shackles"?
Good old times.
