NOW THAT IS ONE BEAUTIFUL CAR !!! I would love to see it but I am on the East coast . Beautiful work and is one of the best I have ever seen . Excellent craftsmanship !
Thanks for all the great replies, I'll post more pic's as it progresses this week. I can't wait to see it done and drive it.
Got it back from the front end alignment shop today and put the fenders and hood on it, hope to have it running by friday.
At last it's alive! It runs and I took it for a short drive, tomorrow I'll tune it up and take it for a longer test drive. The pipes are not as loud as I thought they would be, but the have a nasty little rumble to them and they rap real nice. I also need to detail every thing and polish the chrome.
Hey Johnny, how's she running? Any more pics? Looking forward to seeing it in the sunshine at Santa Maria.
hot damn man. you do the kinda work i wish i could. i think i like every detail of the car. i dig the mostly original look of the guages and interior. i bet that car will moto-vate down the highway nicely too....i didnt see what trans you ran with that motor? super clean and ill be checkin it out at santa maria.
Took the first drive today, really smooth, nice sound, handles great. What a blast to drive this thing. It was to good to believe, yeah, I said it was. Because then, after about the first 6 miles, the car developed a terrible rod knock, and it came on in an instant. I mean from one second to the other, Bam Klack, Klack, Klack, Klack! Scared the **** out of me! I thought I had snapped a rod a punshed a hole in the block. But no oil on the ground. So I had it towed back to my shop, took the oil pan off of it and the rod cap on the #4 was comming of. The idiot that built the engine and got over $4500 from me only finger tightend the nuts on all the rod caps! What the F&%k!!!! So I took the bearings out of the rod that had about a 1/4 of slap in it and checked every thing. The crank looks good, even the bearing still looks good, I think I might have gotten lucky because I shut it off so fast. So tomorrow I'm gonna plastigauge every thing and if every thing checks out I'll put it back together. Torque every thing down and give it another try. Wish me good luck!! I'm gonna need it. If it runs I'll drive it to Santa Maria and recheck the crank after I get back and if I need to I'll have the crank reground again. But the goal now is to get it to Santa Maria and worry about the rest after wards. Here's some pic's of it in the Sun today. The way the pictures turned out the back ground almost looks pale and faded, as if I messed with the colors in the pictures. But that's how my camera took the shots, the Candy Brandywine is so brilliant. Thanks to Joe Stockdale for an unbelievable paintjob!!! The last picture is me still smiling before every thing went to hell.
It's got a TH400, Thanks for the compliments! I tried to keep all the mods very modest, the car had great lines from the factory, I only tried to enhance what it already had. I didn't want anything to wild or modern looking, just a mild custom that somebody might have built a couple of decades back.
Fantastic work Johnny, I love the pipes exiting the fender. Stunning...I need to come down & see it....
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