Projects 1960 Chevy Sedan Delivery LS swap

Time to start a thread for dad's new project.

This is a car that my dad and his friend used to run around in right after my dad graduated high school. The friend kept the car and for about the last 30 years it sat behind his barn in a tiny town in Kansas. Dad bought it from last year when we took the GTO up there for a "drag Main" day where the old high school grads come back to this little town and drag main. There's also a parade and car show

Here are some pics of it from that weekend and a you can see it has cancer....bad!




Lift gate was smashed in a little on the p*** side


Still had an old set of slicks on it





Dad wants it to be "old school" not going to be my style but this is 100% his toy so we are building it to be exactly what he wants
Started off with the slot mag wheels with white letter tires

 

Interior in pretty bad shape too and there are a ton of parts just thrown in back






Original AC car you can see the vent on the lower dash and controls in the middle of the dash at the bottom




Showing some of the rust


the bullet hole is real. The story goes that the friend was running from the cops and raising cain going through the fields near their town. The cops shop at the car (I guess to shoot out the tire) and shot the door instead.

 

Start of body work ( done by one of my dads customers)

 

Dad wanted to keep it looking like it did back then. It was always primer so he had it painted with some enamel paint that looks like primer. The painted the interior a hot rod flat black






Flat black engine bay too

 

The car is so dirty that John and I sweep under and around the car every 10 mins or so it seems like



If y'all haven't noticed this is the same body style as John's wagon. Cool coincidence I thought. This is how the car sat back then an dad likes it this high so that's how it's going to stay

(this is WITH the motor in the car)


Keeping with the old car theme we didn't clean up the motor or anything. I think it's cool that it will look like the car has been sittin for 30 years with this motor in it haha

 

I am super proud of my lower radiator hose find. It looks stock I cut off about 6" off of a hose I found at oreilly. No idea what it fits but it was the same shape as the hanger I bent up
gates part number 21503 (added in case anyone else needs it)



I was going to do rubber hose to the ****** cooler but John suggested hard line. I am glad we went that route it looks way better

 

Lift gate fixed it's not 100% perfect but a damn good job considering

 

We just did some minor things today like heater hoses battery cables some wiring issues upper radiator hose stuff like that

 

we started this project a little while back (couple months) and I just started a thread on DFWMustangs and LS1Tech but figured you guys would like at least the outer portion of the car since its older and different. I know a lot of you would have like to see it with a more conventional drivetrain but we like LS motors and that's what we went with on this and on the '69 GTO Judge clone that is a turbo 6 liter LS motor.

 

Sweet looks good so far!!!!!!!

 

Dad just text me this pic since he just got the rear bumper on still needs a little straightening it looks like

 

Looks pretty darn awesome to me. My Dad had a 60 Brookwood wagon that I rode in everywhere. I'd love to have that one again. Family wagon to the max.

 

Kudos to you. That thing is as cool as the bottom of the pillow. I have been seriously considering a 5.3 for a couple of cars.

 

thanks... this is getting a cammed 5.3 with the car intake to make it look a little better under the hood (I had truck intakes)

It won't be near as fast as the GTO but all he wanted on this car is a Cam, AC and cruise control haha... so that's what he is going to get.

 

I LOVE IT!!!!!!
I would like to have seen the engine cleaned up but it's your car.

I have a 60 Biscayne that is my next project when I get out of this dang cast.

 

Damn youre dad sounds like mine!!!lol!!!! We did the same thing with his comet.He wanted it to be just like the one he had right down to the same engine and paint job.So thats what he got lol....

 

I started to but decided we (I ) wanted it to look like we just pulled it out of the field and this motor had been in it for the last 30 years

he's ok with that decision too

 

because it didn't come with a motor or ****** and the rest of our toys are LS motors (most are turbo) and dad wanted something reliable with power and fuel injection and all the comforts of a new car basically.

I know this isn't a place for FI set ups.. but the car fits here.. the GTO doesn't at all, that's why I didn't put a thread on it..

and the '59 Galaxie is still basically stock.. but sooner or later will get an LS too.....

its all about your preference and mine is fuel injected LS motors over carb'd

'69 GTO Judge clone with a turbo 6 liter LS


'59 Galaxie air ride and stock 332, auto with Selectaire AC