Projects 1946 GMC Bonneville build

On our way to Loring, I drove it onto the scales.

 

Beautiful !!

Ben

 

Great looking truck! Here’s to a successful weekend with it.

 

We start racing on Monday. I'll post timing slips, good or bad.

 

Thanks!

 

Wow, surprisingly it's a few pounds (230) lighter than my street driven 46 GMC (weighed full of fuel).

 

Looking forward to results. Good luck and be safe!

 

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For those about to rock, we salute you.

 

Our first p*** at Loring, taking it easy. I wanted to see if it drove okay, shifted okay . I set 3 new records.
The second p***, I went for it. I had 3 perfect shifts and then the tac started going the wrong way. We lost a lot of oil and we're done for this event.
We'll see what happened when we get home.

 

Hate it when the Tach does that. Sounds like things went OK before that. Hope you get it sorted before Bonneville.

 

We'll bring it back here in July.

 

Congratulations/ condolences.
Sure is a nice looking little pickup.

 

Thanks!

 

The pistons just arrived. Do we have enough time to build a motor and get to Bonneville? We're getting too old for thrasher 18 hours a day!

 

On a brighter note, we picked up the 3 record certificates while we were at Loring Timing ***ociation.

 

Bravo ! Most impressive indeed!

 

WOW! Great job @Marcia.

 

Thanks!

 

Thank you!

 

Great Job

 

Sure you can get it done! It's just pistons, you don't even have to pull the engine.

 

Sweet deal on the records. Absolute bummer on hurting the motor. Good luck getting it back together.

 

We made a couple of p***es at Loring but we ran on the middle runway and it wasn't compatible with my suspension setup. We took air out of the tires but it wasn't enough. We'll do some more work when we get home and then head to World Finals at Bonneville.
We set three more records but we need to go a lot faster.

 

Beautiful record setting truck! You are just beginning to the fun part. Good luck at Bonneville.

 

Thank you!

 

Marcia and Frank. Congratulations on your records. More to come I am sure. Dave

 

Considering the last minute change required for the runway you certainly did great. Heck when we flat tow our car back on that runway its so rough I could never run our car on that surface. It would be a very bad idea. See you both at Hershey.
Ronnieroadster

 

Thanks Dave!

 

A pickup I would be proud to use as a Daily Driver. You "done" good.

Ben