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Well.....let's see where to start, ok- painted the dash in the 67 Cuda convertiable, so it's ready to go back in, and I need to put the new top on it next to complete it.
Pulled the nailhead & tranny out of the 67 Rivera and traded it for some stuff to go in the Delivery- still need to get a 42" rear made up for it, I won't get to that this month.
Got the Silverado stripped down & the bed off for her paint, need to get it in sealer today.
The 70 Firechicken is mocked up & I need to re-drill the fenders for the flairs where I replaced the metal damage, then I can shoot the jambs & firewall & window tracks, I might get it down off the dollie's by July 4th
The 64 ChevyII still needs a lot of metal work- but I did get it up on the K-5 frame & hook-ed up.
I still have a waiting list of 7 to build for customers, and I 'm thinking of breaking ground on the lower end of the property to build a shop for my wife- she wants me to teach her how to do interior work.
I still work a full time job so I can only work on my rods in the evenings, and week-ends.

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Originally posted by The Al Show
It still has cop tires, cop shocks and cop suspension so whaddya think? Is it the new Bluesmobile?
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Originally posted by racerxjj67
It's dark and we're wearing sun glasses... Hit it!

YA!...

I Started my re-wiring project last week-end. The wiring in the car worked, but it did not work well. Usually dropped down to 10 volts at stoplights and barely held 12 going down the highway with A/C and lights on. I am using a lot of the kits and designs at Madelectrical.com. So far I have put a remote starting solenoid back in the trunk near the battery, this removes power from the heavy 1/0 wire to the starter except during starting. I have run a dedicated 8 gauge wire back there to the battery for charging and power to the rest of the circuits. I have set up two power distribution stations, one near the firewall and one on the radiator core support. I rewired the Alternator to send power to the firewall distribution point and also have the sensing wire going there so it measures the load where power is being used. My fuse panel was out on the firewall and I am moving it inside under the dash where I am fabricating a hinged panel to hold it that will drop down for access and fold up out of site the rest of the time. I found a really slick fuse panel at www.centech.com. Very compact and it uses lugs like a house panel insted of crimped on terminals. Still to do is set up a panel inside my left front fenderwell to hold the front power distribution point and a number of relays to power my electric fans and headlights. I plan to use a metal first aid kit box to house these and keep them out of the elements. This will take a lot of load off the fuse box and ignition switch. The added benefit of all this is I have found a number of dead wires that I have removed and it is really cleaning up the wiring in my engine compartment.

Right now I am just praying that everything will work when I flip my battery master switch! Speaking of which I also changed the master battery switch from the positive cable to the negative. I hope to have this all done by Friday the 11th so I can make it to our local Hot Rod Jamboree. Been working on it every hour when I am not working, eating or sleeping. Neat thing about this project is I will have have less than $300 in it when I am done.

Pat

Nice picture TL. That's how I plan to drive mine. Should I paint the front doors and roof white? It cost me $200 without the engine and trans. There's a Mustang 5 speed in the trunk along with a bunch of heavy spare parts that I have to take out and it's still level. Nice heavy duty cop suspension. It's almost ready to go. I got a problem though so I'm going to post a thread on it and see if someone can help me out.

I was just looking at the title that came with the car. It was titled to the Dept of Treasury, Fleet Mgmt. Trenton N.J. So it's not an IRS car like I thought.

Body work on the '50 is nearly compleate, going to clean the gas tank out, flush all of the fluid systems and put a new exzaust on and then, some glass for the wing windows and, it's going on the road. I want to drive it and restore it/ rod it at the same time.

Too bad you don't have anything going on Hambisket! Man! You have to be a hard worker.

Thats a nice ride for $200.00 Al Show, what a clean cruiser, don't need the pony tranny in the trunk though!

Wiring is what I have to look forward to yet Stu, but there are some really cool stuff out there now. I love that fussblock you found, very cool.

I am still working on chasis, I got my new steering column in and tomorrow the seats will be mounted permenantly since I can set them now. I have figured out a way to use my stock pedals for a power brake set-up. It will work and save me $150.00 for something else.

Originally posted by hambiskit
Well.....let's see where to start, ok- painted the dash in the 67 Cuda convertiable, so it's ready to go back in, and I need to put the new top on it next to complete it.
Pulled the nailhead & tranny out of the 67 Rivera and traded it for some stuff to go in the Delivery- still need to get a 42" rear made up for it, I won't get to that this month.
I still work a full time job so I can only work on my rods in the evenings, and week-ends.

Jim..Envy your ambition.
Question.. Having a '67 Riv. myself, curious what the intent was for the fellow that traded you?
'67 Cuda Ragtop--Sweet ride!

Well as it turned out the swap didn't go thru as I misunderstood what he wanted. I thought that he needed the tranny for his '72 Chevy pu to pull his trailer- but he wants a 4 wheel drive transfer case hooked up to it ( different tranny) which I have but that's going to have to be a better deal than just the 700 R 4 we were going to do.
So I still have the nailhead & tranny only now I have it on the shelf in the hut.
Yes the 67 Cuda's a sweet ride & I wish it was mine, but alas it belongs to a customer that won't sell it. But the Riv.'s mine and I have PLANS for her. I'll post some pic.'s as soon as I figger out how to do it.

Ok lets see here, I've been purchasing quite a few parts for the Firebird lately and I'm getting pretty close to having everything I need. Here the last 3-4 months, I've gotten a new wiring harness, disk brake conversion kit, B&M Ratchet shifter, a flowmaster exhaust (sounds awesome too! ), front turn signal housings, head liner, dash (used, and need it to repair the butcher job somebody did for a stereo install ) and now I am in the process of ordering the front end rebuild kit and front turn signal lenses. Once I've go those, the car should be ready for the rest of the interior, body work and paint. Then.....SHAZAM!! she'll be done, and I'll be broke. I can't wait!!

As for the Cameo, I installed the new front bumper here a couple weeks ago and also installed the electric fuel pump and new carb within the last couple months. I also replaced the plugs and wires and replaced the header gaskets as well. I've gotta put the tach in here in the next week or two. After that, I've gotta put the rear bumper pieces back on (had 'em re-chromed a while back and been too lazy to get 'em on ). Then, the all I should need to do is give her a tune up, change the oil, put some fresh gas in it and drive.

It was titled to the Dept of Treasury, Fleet Mgmt. Trenton N.J. So it's not an IRS car like I thought.

Al,
Need I point out that IRS is a Bureau of the Treasury Dept?

Have'nt really done anything to my new project lately.
Which is a 1965 ford ranchero, I'm having troble locating full bed fenders. I don't want to just install skins on it. then I also need to find a set of wheel tubs factory looking and a plate or panel for the inside of the tail gate. I did just find a small block C6 trany for it though, It deffinately needs, darn thing [ C4 ] slips like crazy and jumps in to gear on it's own,Which the old fords were known to do. Then I want disc brakes all around. Body first, body first, body first. Gotta stay on track,get excited about all the things I want to do to it. I've been building forms for cement behind the house, so I'll have plenty of room to work on that baby with a bay pit and all.

~ Vegas ~

The goat is coming along nicely just waiting on $$$ to finish the short block up. All block work is done the crank/rods/pistons are in it the jesel is on the front and i am broke

I'll be working on the body again tommorow fishing up the alinment of all the fiberglass parts(seems like i have been alining for 2 years now )

but its really starting to look like something now!

BG

Alot of us have a common theme, being broke! Will not broke but not able to part with money for the rod though. It is as vara4 said that it is hard to not get ahead of your self. I am very impatient myself, it is hard to just sit by and watch the car collect dust which I have only done for a week or two during the winter. I am coming to the time where I'm getting into the large ticket items and thats where its going to get hard.

I want to thank everybody that has posted here at this thread, it is a ball to know how everybody is doing. I hope that you all are enjoying it too.

Still Monkeying around on the 37 , just doing some
body mods on it and fitting and adjusting everything before I get to doing the body work.
I extended the front fenders to give it more eye apeal because I'm not running bumpers.

I'm just glad we have a great site like this to come to and ask for help if we need it or help others if we can. I've always liked tinkering around with cars,and am glad to find others that like the same thing. And most of the people here have more experince then I do. and god knows I need all the help I can get. Right now I've got 20 things going at any givin time,plus I work 12 to 15 hours 6 days a week. So I have'nt been able to talk with all my buddys on here like I would like too. Got off work yester day and thought I would get on here for a while and see how every thing was going. got the old dreded phone call the new Suburban I just bought two mounths back blew the trany last night . So I had to go get the family last night. When I got to them I stated up the suburban to hear a load grinding inthe trany. Seems my Denise was trying to show this guy in another car how well that Vor-teck moter would run [HE! HE!] God love her I would have done the same thing. Just glad see did it instead of me, I can use this to my advantage later when I break some thing. You know what I mean [ honey I know I broke it, but remeber when ] HE! HE!HE! Just throwing some tips out for the yonger guys.

~ Vegas ~