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It was just an Ebay find that kind of matched the fins of the VCs and cleared thw firewall.
Yup, back when it had Belair trim and taillights.
We've talked through her letting go of the 57, the 54 Chev and the Merc.
And some '54 Merc. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Unfortunately, no way to know now. That info went with the husband when he passed...
Here's a couple pics of the '54 Chev. Removable top, SBC with 3 deuces. She says she wants to keep this one (and the Nova and El Camino), but I...
Don't know how many of you saw the '64 El Camino custom I got back on the road for a widowed member of our car club, but finally delivered it back...
Here's a few exterior pics. Just to be clear, this isn't my car and VRC didn't do any exterior work on the car. Our mission was to bring it back...
Most of the pics and videos I created were of the work completed so will take a few exterior shots and post. When we deliver the Elco Saturday...
One of the members of our car club (River Cruizers CC BHC) moved here from back East with her husband almost 2 years ago. Her husband passed a few...
Block went out and got squared and decked. Fitting rings this weekend with short block assembly Tuesday and Wednesday. Found a roller cam core and...
The Hoosiers are 32x13-15
Do these tires make my rear end look big?[ATTACH]
Had a good couple days. Welding is 99% done (the remaining 1% when it's torn down again for paint), got it flipped , suspension back on and the...
Only got 1 thing done yesterday. Did some metal finishing on the right motor mount and that was it. The ground away portion is clearance for the...
Day 3 welding on the frame. About 90% done on the top, almost ready to flip it and do the bottom. Belated lesson from my old neighbor Brandon...
1st day of welding. Started on the floor reinforcements and got the left motor mount roughed in. There will be a flat floor in this, so the top...
So what's the coolest thing about putting a lift in to work on cars? It's SO friggin' easy to pull the engine and trans! [ATTACH] Blowing it apart...
Last day of the 3 day weekend and I finally got all the braces fitted. Couldn't do any more until I found the plates to box the front brackets and...
Didn't think I was done just making up braces did ya? Added a vertical brace to strengthen it and realized I need to go buy a tube notcher if I'm...
Memorial Day project is to eliminate a potential issue with using the '32 rails and a parallel 4 link. Right now, the bottom of the bracket is...
More progress. Made up the driveshaft hoop and swapped the driveshaft around. Looks odd, but the mandated hoop location makes more sense now....
This is a "short shaft" C6. It was used in 4x4's with divorced transfer cases and is shorter than passenger car units. Shorter output shaft, big...
Could do that... 1350's on both ends so I could flip it around.
Driveshaft's in and fits perfectly. Deep pan on the C6 too, so now just to locate the driveshaft hoop. NHRA says within 6" of the front U-joint,...
Had thought about that, but was in a corner between crossmember design, tailshaft height and actually being about to remove it!
Finally on it's feet without welding clamps and visegrips holding it together! You can kind of see this cars schizophrenic nature as it changed...
Not gonna be CF, this is a REAL budget build now. It's steel, but the type of driveshaft is a bit unconventional for drag racing. It'll be...
Ordered the driveshaft today. Gonna be interesting to see your responses when you see what it'll be!
Geezus... FINALLY some progress. Drive angle is set, trans crossmember was fabbed up today! On the monumental scale this probably doesn't seem...
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