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All I can say is............. soon.

Going great it looks like pro60, I love those rear disks.

Very nice shawnlee 28, I know about the "Multiplying pretty's" syndrome, it can be hard on the pocketbook if not kept in check!

I like the roadster look also Dave, it's going to be a nice cruizer'.

I have been working on the interior, installed the kick panels, door panels, and I'm working on the rear panels with one already up. I installed a new z-gate shifter yesterday and finished the console. My wife has all the material cut to cover it so that will be done today with a little luck. Like you said, one pretty just leads to another!

Im awaiting surgery on my back so I havent done much lately to my 1959 Impala 2dr. I have a high performance 348 Im dropping in it but still need to get a tranny and some other parts for it. I will be getting a settelment from the car accident I was in that messed up my back and Im going to use a portion of that to get the Impala on the road. It has been sitting since 1978 so It will probally have lots of bugs that will need to be worked out. By the way love the Forum, I check it out daily now

Pro 60 I love your car that thing is sweet!! Looks like you have o in a ton of wrench time, nice work!!!! I would love to prostreet my 59 but dont think I could bring my self to take a cutting torch to it lol

So, don't use a torch on it....use a plama cutter!!! If not that, how about a sawzall????

LOL yeah guess I could do that. When I started with the car I was planning on doing most of it stock but plans have changed More POWER

Originally posted by HotRod59
LOL yeah guess I could do that. When I started with the car I was planning on doing most of it stock but plans have changed More POWER

That's how mine started out.

Watch out ............. don't let the "speed bug" get ya'

I dont think I will go to the extreme you have with you car lol, I just checked out your pic that is going to be a SWEET car when your done. Is there anything left of the original camaro other than the roof and windshield? That is definetly built for speed lol

Originally posted by HotRod59
Is there anything left of the original camaro other than the roof and windshield? lol

Yup. I kept the vin tag too.

Originally posted by pro70z28
Yup. I kept the vin tag too.

why?????

Originally posted by lt1s10
why?????

So I can put plates on it

Well this thread is where the action is but I just started another thread on the Bebops 29 roadster body that was delivered to me this morning. Mainly I included some pictures for the "as delivered" condition of the body, but I have already sprayed the interior 1" tubular framework with rattle-can Rustoleum and two days ago attached the running board brackets and front fender braces to the frame. I got a beautiful stainless dropped headlight bar from Speedway and then realized this rules out an external horn. Well I was never hung up on an "Ahooga" horn anyway so maybe I'll just get a "Beep Beep" horn and hang it on the firewall (later). Overall I am really pleased with the Bebops body so far and it came all in one piece ready to bolt on the frame with steel plates in the floor prealigned for the body holes in the Brookville frame. Now I have to bleed the brakes and hook up the parking brake cables which will be much easier to do before I put on the body. Supposedly "All I have to do" is jack up the body and roll the chassis under it and then bolt it down, but maybe the rear shock tower mounts will need a cut out on each side of the glass floor followed by some sort of fiberglass bubble over the shock mounts, but we shall see how it goes. Let's just note that I have wanted a Model A roadster (in any form) since 1955 and it always eluded me for financial reasons so to have one in my driveway is a big step for me (finally!).

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

Hey Don, how about mounting a Bermuda Bell in the floor

That'll keep the kids guessing, huh BBBob????

Originally posted by pro70z28
So I can put plates on it

thats a good reason.

Tech1, Although there are two other ways out of my home site to major roads, a third option goes down the street past Dick Ivey's Model A restoration shop and then over a one lane bridge. I have nearly been smashed several times going over that one lane bridge even though I slow down and repeatedly "Sound my horn". I think a Bermuda bell would be far too faint for that situation. I would like to avoid that bridge altogether, but the lure of perhaps finding Dick Ivey with his garage door open is a temptation so the only horn for me is a LOUD horn! The question is whether Dick Ivey will be driving his '29 Model A Sport coupe, his red '53 Ford convert. or his recently acquired hi-po Mustang II convert. The "29 and the '53 both sport badges with "First in Class" at Hershey! What a guy, he doesn't even mind my vulgar chrome valve covers on a SBC 350 in a '29 frame, soon to be '29 roadster, he just likes cars, but obviously favors Fords!

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

Congrats on getting the body for your roadster Don!! Sounds like a nice piece.. Now you have lots more fun things to do!!