It's always the simple little things that make a guy "Crazy"!!!!!!!

 

Are you planing to do the entire Power Tour trip? If all goes well we are planning to do the Knoxville to Charleston leg.

 

Yes.......Doing the entire tour......The car will be in the Dakota Digital booth every day.....

Ken

 

Well if I can get the AC issues worked out and back together we will be there. Hopefully all of the parts will arrive and be exactly as ordered.

 

LOL..........Good Luck with that.......

 

I can only hope. After 40 years in the business I realize that this is going to be a big stretch. One good thing is that I do have a tracking # on the hoses. Now if the condenser actually ships............. And we all know the rest of the story.

 

The Story continues.......Moral of the story..........one thing touches another and another and so on......LOL..... (But......We are very close).........When initially putting the driveline together........I had an issue where the driveshaft shop installed the rear universal with the grease fitting and bulged area for the fitting towards the rear of the car.......I didn't notice that the raised area of the joint was hitting against the threaded area of the pinion shaft where the nut is..........to go back in the process......I had the car raised up and sitting on jack stands on the frame.........so....I started the engine and added trans fluid .....when I put the car in gear to get the trans fluid pumped thru the trans.....the car scared the hell out of me as it almost shook itself off the stands......took me a while to find that interference issue......Pulled the driveshaft out and took it back and they put new universals in installed the correct way..........so.....Fast forward and as I was driving the car I had a slight rear end howl...........So .......we are leaving in 3 days for the Power Tour and last night I was thinking about how that rear end shook so violently at that time and the rear end howl.........Hummm!!!.......You know when you get that Knot in your stomach???...........Time is getting very short and this little mis-adventure was coming back to "Haunt" me.....So......I called Jimmy at Chassis Service (who did the rear originally) and asked him if he could put my mind at ease and check it out.......He laughed and said "You need it when"???...........Bottom line he fit me in this afternoon.........He just called me and said I was Lucky I didn't take the car the way it was as the bearings had started eating them selves and the Ring and Pinion were worn to a point of him not being comfortable with them...........So........He said he was on his way down to Strange Engineering to get all new parts and he would have it back together tomorrow afternoon.......Sheesh.........One little error by the driveshaft guy is now getting $$$$$$$$$$$$$$.............Cars...........LOL

On another note......I went to a little car show on Sunday and the original owner of the car who restored it was there and read me the "Riot" act for ruining his car...........It was an Interesting conversation to say the least........LOL

 

"read me the "Riot" act for ruining his car...........It was an Interesting conversation to say the least........LOL"

Then he should not have sold the car. Simple as that. If you really want to pull his chain tell him you are going to part the car out.

 

I can't wait until someone confronts me about "ruining" my original SS car. If I didn't "ruin" it, it would have been recycled into Camrys by now. Good thing I used MY money to do what III want with MY car.

 

Tell me this isn't the same jackwagon who but motor oil in the rear instead of gear oil?

 

Haha! I was wondering if the 'original' guys were going to hate it, but the guy you bought it from hating it, well, that's just priceless!!!

Good info on the u joint, something I've never encountered or thought of. I'll be keeping that in mind from now on.

Have a safe and fun trip on the Power Tour!!!

 

Back a million years ago I was doing a Pro-Street 65 GTO ragtop. Shopping for parts at a swap meet I found a pair of tail light bezels. The seller took them out of my hand, and went on a rant telling me that he knew about my project and how I should have been ashamed of myself for what I was doing to the car and he would never sell me anything. I offered him a solution. Buy the car and then do with it what he wanted. I thought he was going to have a heart attack.
The moral of the story to me is, Anyone can restore one, but it takes a real man to cut one up.
I may not like the way you are doing your car, but I will defend to the death your right to do it.

 

I agree, all you did was make the car better. I think we agree on this point Ken. Tell the big wuzzz to pound sand.

 

A Neat thing happened on the Power Tour.......Some of the Chevrolet guys came over to the car and asked to do a feature on it...........Said sure!!.......Here's a link!!!



https://theblock.com/news/ken-tibor-...ur-feature-car

 

Very nice and well deserved.

 

That's awesome, Ken! Congrats!

 

Cool feature man. Car looks amazing!

 

That's great after the beautiful 66 Impala. You so deserve this 2 in a row.
Congratulations

 

Saw the car at Dakota , looked great , I hope they gave you a bonus for advertiseing for them . I made it to Indiana then headed back to N.Y.. JOHN

 

Very nice, you should be proud!