1970 Chevelle going for broke!
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Wow!!! Nicely done on the video. Your shop rocks! What is that yellow tube? An exhaust fan or vacuum system? I am looking forward to watching your build.
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Wow. Very jealous of your shop. I can tell by the other car, and your shop this car is gonna be a show stopper. Cant wait to see the finished product. Definetely be following the build.
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The shop has only taking me 22 years to get it to this point it definitly did not happen overnight. Thanks for the interest and please keep following the build it is going to start getting good soon!
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I has been a interesting to sat the least progress has been a bit slow had a big scare with my wife and after a few trips to the hospital thinking my wife was having a heart attack! big scare and still have along way to go to get things back to normal but still attempting to make some progress.
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not a whole lot of progress more like the opposite of progress!
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not a whole lot of progress more like the opposite of progress!
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Well looks like we finally made it to the mock up stage! starting to fab up some parts and pieces trying to figure out ride height,motor placement,and firewall mods. to be done.
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We have been trying to get the front drive accessories done so we can get to mocking up the motor and tranny .![Name: IMAG2188.jpg
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still waiting on a couple pulleys and spacers but almost there should have plenty of room for ex. now
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still waiting on a couple pulleys and spacers but almost there should have plenty of room for ex. now
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Made another video please check it out and let me know what you think!
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making some progress getting some brake brackets fabbed up rotors by R1 concepts making progress now.![Name: IMAG2221.jpg
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kicking it old school plasma cutting freehand no cnc. grinding and more grinding.
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kicking it old school plasma cutting freehand no cnc. grinding and more grinding.
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progress has been slow still plugging away but lots of distractions lately.finished up the front brake brkts. these were cut out freehand with a plasma cutter then ground smooth no laser or water jet here.trying to get a new web site up and running and getting a azzz kicking.![Name: IMAG2223.jpg
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here is a little hint on whats coming up next.
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here is a little hint on whats coming up next.
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almost finished the drive accessories still a couple of details to work out yet. this should give me plenty of room to run the headers forward.![Name: IMAG2240.jpg
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next stop firewall cleaning and filling great another project for the grinder.
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next stop firewall cleaning and filling great another project for the grinder.
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looks like it is about hole filling time! ye frickin haw. this is not one of my favorite jobs by any means but it must be done for progress goes on.
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oh crap that idea went really wrong looks like I made more holes and these are alot bigger!
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oh crap that idea went really wrong looks like I made more holes and these are alot bigger!
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got a bit more work done on the car fabricated a fan shroud for the new radiator.
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started fabbing some more parts out of a old electric panel any guesses on what they might be?
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started fabbing some more parts out of a old electric panel any guesses on what they might be?
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