Brenton Brady is only 25 years old and has put together a truly impressive inline ride. Brenton writes:

I have owned the truck since I was 16. It was my first vehicle.  I also learned how to drive a standard transmission with the truck too.  It had the original 4 speed double clutch
trans in it.  I picked it up quick and managed not to break the trans.  I am currently building the truck in a late 50's early 60's style.  It will be painted red.  I have already painted the firewall.  I did that myself, it was the first time I had ever painted anything on a vehicle with a spray gun.  It turned out great.  Anyway, it has a red and white tuck and roll interior, an NOS two piece Sun Tach,  the blown 302 and the original 4 speed
and original rear end.  It has wide white big n littles on steelies.  My Mother did the interiour for me.  She did an excellent job.  I also adapted disc brakes to the I-Beam axle.  One day I almost rear ended someone and decide that it was time for discs.  I mounted a vacuum booster and corvette master cylinder under the floor.

As for some information on the engine, here are the stats:

Compression 7.8-1 pistons:  the pistons I had custom made by Arias.  They are flat top forged aluminum.  When I saw the pistons in the engine without the head on, it was
almost a shame to cover them up...they were so shiny...lol.

The connecting rods are stock.

The rocker arm cover is one I found at a swap meet for $60.  The guy I bought it off of told me that it was one of 60 that Stovebolt Engine Company had made up.  That was before the company was sold to Tom Langdon I think.  Yes it is a two piece. The engine has stainless steel valves and pushrods.  The intake valves measure 1.84 inches & The exhaust valves measure 1.6 inches

I had the cam reground by a local grinder.  Because of the Blower, it is a conservative grind:  .309 lift on Intake, .295 lift on Exhaust and there is only 113 degrees of lobe separation.

For ignition I have a Dual Point Mallory Distibutor.  Everyone I talked to
told me to go with electronic, but I didn't like the look of them and it wouldn't have gone with the theme of the truck.  I also have an MSD box for the ignition as well.  That is hidden behind the seat, again, wouldn't have gone with the theme, but I conceded on this point and realized I would need it.

As you can see from the pictures, I mounted the Blower horizontally.  I
didn't want it to mount vertically, as it does traditionally, I thought it would look funny.  I purchased the intake manifold from Stovebolt Engine Co.   It was actually for a 4-71 blower that was to be mounted vertically.  I had a local machine shop build a plenum and and modify the manifold so the blower mounts horizontally.

The engine has dual Edelbrock 600 cfm carbs on it.

For exhaust manifolds, I have cast Philips Performance headers.  I didn't
want tube headers since I thought they would look funny.  As it turned out,
once the blower is on there, you can only just barely see the headers.  Oh
well. I had the same machine shop that did the intake manifold also mount the
drive pulley etc.  He had to custom make me an idler pulley bracket.  He also milled a finned aluminum side cover for me.  It looks great on the engine.  I tried to find an old finned aluminum cover but they are rare and the Philips Performance one was a bit out of my price range.

That same shop also custom made an aluminum oil filler tube for me.  The old
one was dented up and I didn't like the old blow-by tube.  He put a fitting
on the side of the filler tube and made a finned aluminum puke tank for any
gases that might come out of the engine.

I chose a Jimmie for a couple of reasons.  The interior of my truck is not
all that large and I am 6'4" tall.  I didn't want to lose any space by cutting the firewall for a V8.  I also didn't want "just another V8 car".   I wanted something different and unique.  So I originally started looking for a 261 chevy.  I then found out about the Jimmies and the 302.  I figured if you are gonna do an engine swap...why not put in the largest inline there is, other than the really big industrial engines.  I think I accomplished the different and unique goal I had.  The only regret I have is that I didn't also put a cross flow head on it.  Unfortunately, I couldn't afford it.  But a blown 302 with a cross flow would have been really neat.  I started the engine for the first time this summer.  It sounded even better than I imagined. I have to say that if it weren't for my Dad's help, I probably wouldn't have been able to do it.  He helped me throughout the build and reminded me of why I was doing it when things didn't alway go my way.