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In a small suburban city 12 miles southeast of L.A., in a place called Whittier, you can find this delicious little 1950 Chevy hot rod. It’s a fine red flame-adorned Deluxe coupe, and for an asking price of just $6500, it’s got some great potential in the near future as a resto-mod. It’s a barn find from Montana, so a lot of the stock components can still be found in the car, among them the motor, radio, and those classic rock guards on the wheel wells.

The engine is a mere inline-six 216, the venerable base engine that served as Chevrolet’s mainstay from the late ’20s to the early ’50s. That means this car is only generating 85hp on any given Sunday, so it would have to be removed for something a bit meaner, like the 265 V8 found on its later descendants or an LS motor if you’re feeling ambitious.

About the only thing that seems to have been brought up to date is its battery, which is now a 12V. That leaves a lot for you to fix up and modernize, if that’s your scene. We’d prefer it to keep in line with the hot rod theme with its flaming red paint scheme, Cragger wheels, and American GT Grand Turbo tires.

Seeing as the car was made in 1950, it had the at-the-time added benefit of being a postwar model to be given new styling, like its reduced body contour and an integrated rear fender. If the car is as stock as stock can be, it’ll have 11″ brake drums and stabilized front suspension, but not much else. It’s probably not too comfortable of a ride either, but built-to-last cars like these, combined with mindful owners, can make them great projects for the builder in us all.

You can find the listing here. What would you have done to the car? Convert to a drag racer? Repaint it? Let us know with a comment below.