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I've always wanted a '57 Montclair and after chasing this one for two and a half years I finally closed the deal on July 4th, I know I go through...
I had this old S'OK can on the shelf for 30 years and went to use it one day and it had turned to gel so I found another use for it. [IMG] [IMG]
Getting up early and riding bikes till dark with the neighborhood gang, with no helmet, no phone and no worries.
It looked like it was mounted too high anyway.
Here's a still from a campout we did last year, everything is vintage down to the cooler and luggage. [IMG]
Here's a short video of my setup... 1961 Studebaker Lark (SBC) and 1958 Scotty camper serial number 2, oldest surviving Scotty Sportsman. Watch...
If yesterday and today's crowd are any indication tomorrow is going to be insane, there's already tons of great rides here...there's even some...
All day Friday as well.
We're at the Blue Swallow Motel tonight...getting closer every day!
Heading out first thing in the morning from east Tennessee (2,045 miles), going to cruise the Mother Road again this year.
Axle, we had such a good time last year driving out in our '63 Mercury we just popped for two four day passes and plan to be there Thursday. Sadly...
My wife had a ball, we plan to be there on Thursday night staying at the Orleans with a full pass. We do a Route 66 road trip out to the show,...
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Well I'm gonna to replace the front springs, it's just way too low. [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG]
Mounted the trans cooler and ran the lines through the air duct... [IMG] [IMG] Tight fit on everything... [IMG] I had some help stop by so I...
Here's my '61, 283 SBC...we pull our '58 Scotty with it. The Scotty is serial number 002. [IMG] ...this is my '51 Starlight, blown SBC. [IMG]
I've been making some good progress on the Stude, got the front clip painted and rebuilt the headlight buckets, finished the dash wiring, and got...
I've been working on finishing the wiring harness, simple eight circuit. I'm using a lot of pieces from the '64 Wildcat I got the steering column...
Got everything underneath buttoned up and got it down on the ground...it may be a little low in the front. [IMG] [IMG]
We had so much fun on our first Road Trip to Viva we're planning to do it again...we meet so many great people along the way, and saw so many...
Made a lot of progress today... [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG]
The blackening has begun... [IMG] [IMG] [IMG]
Beautiful car!
I have all the metal work done, pedals hung, seats mounted. Got some Cragars for the rear. [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] Hope to get some paint on it soon...
We have four within 30 miles of us, we take one of our old cars just about every Friday.
Got the mock-up engine positioned, firewall patched. [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] Seats mounted, picked up a silver metalflake steering wheel. [IMG]...
Ok, I'm far enough along on this for a build thread now...picked the body on eBay, it had a SBC in it at one time. I plan to do a simple no frills...
No air cleaner.
I got both of them running today and drove the '60...the brakes were up! I found a folder in the glove box that had all the receipts from where...
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