Chevelle restoration

I just don't see how people have time and money for guns AND project cars. Esp if you aren't a wrench for a living.
My buddy just got entangled in a similar venture - 72 Ford F100 Ranger with a 302 crate engine and Crown Vic front suspension. What a money pit!
He spent all his gun money on truck parts this year and passed up some once in a lifetime deals. Now says he is gonna sell it asap.

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Dad had a 66 Chevelle SS 396 (360hp so hydraulic cam) - Marina Blue with the 4 speed when he was the ripe old age of 18. His first wife and Vietnam relieved him of that teenage dream. He has always been a car guy - had one of the first C5 Vettes I ever saw, of course yellow with the black rag top. Last wife relieved him of that by driving thru mailboxes drunk. My kid is in love with cars and I'm trying to tell him to collect something with real value like old US made wheelguns and cheap reloading equipment :D
 
I had a '66 Chevelle 396/375, Marina blue inside and out. I ended up putting a stock LS-6 454 in it. Had more torque than a John Deere. I sold it and the guy totaled it street racing. Looked like this one.

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Ikarus1 said:
I just don't see how people have time and money for guns AND project cars. Esp if you aren't a wrench for a living.
My buddy just got entangled in a similar venture - 72 Ford F100 Ranger with a 302 crate engine and Crown Vic front suspension. What a money pit!
He spent all his gun money on truck parts this year and passed up some once in a lifetime deals. Now says he is gonna sell it asap.

BTW NICE PROJECT!

Dad had a 66 Chevelle SS 396 (360hp so hydraulic cam) - Marina Blue with the 4 speed when he was the ripe old age of 18. His first wife and Vietnam relieved him of that teenage dream. He has always been a car guy - had one of the first C5 Vettes I ever saw, of course yellow with the black rag top. Last wife relieved him of that by driving thru mailboxes drunk. My kid is in love with cars and I'm trying to tell him to collect something with real value like old US made wheelguns and cheap reloading equipment :D
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Well that’s easy. I do wrench for a living.... and it’s not my car. Just a project I am working on. Like the Jeep CJ I posted a resto thread on, and the C-3 Corvette resto. Maybe the Corvette was the other place? But this is part of what I do. Aside from being the lead tech at a medium sized repair outfit here in Charlotte. Tear em down and rebuild em. 1970 C-10 is next.
 
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Coltdefender1911 said:
Well that’s easy. I do wrench for a living.... and it’s not my car. Just a project I am working on. Like the Jeep CJ I posted a resto thread on, and the C-3 Corvette resto. Maybe the Corvette was the other place? But this is part of what I do. Aside from being the lead tech at a medium sized repair outfit here in Charlotte. Tear em down and rebuild em. 1970 C-10 is next.
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Cool, like a real life Gas Monkey Garage eh? I think I have seen most of those threads on the resto cars. I am past the build it/buy it/race it life so far that driving my daughters Honda accord to work is a luxury now :D
My middle kid would love it, he's been bitten by the bug so I'm working to temper that enthusiasm with some sense. For instance, he experienced his first flat tire because he wouldn't listen to me about cold weather and slow leaks and get it fixed (for free...at Discount Tire), so after the inevitable blowout he wants to do custom wheels and tires....on a busboy's salary. I vetoed that quickly. Tire had less than 10K on it and was a decent tire on a decent wheel on a decent car. I told him to worry about the suspension before the tires because they will let you know when they don't work so well anymore.

Anyhow the beauty of that is not listening to Dad ended up in him changing a tire in 19 degree morning weather, being late for work AND paying $112. Nothing like those expensive lessons early in life eh?
 
Ikarus1 said:
Cool, like a real life Gas Monkey Garage eh? I think I have seen most of those threads on the resto cars. I am past the build it/buy it/race it life so far that driving my daughters Honda accord to work is a luxury now :D
My middle kid would love it, he's been bitten by the bug so I'm working to temper that enthusiasm with some sense. For instance, he experienced his first flat tire because he wouldn't listen to me about cold weather and slow leaks and get it fixed (for free...at Discount Tire), so after the inevitable blowout he wants to do custom wheels and tires....on a busboy's salary. I vetoed that quickly. Tire had less than 10K on it and was a decent tire on a decent wheel on a decent car. I told him to worry about the suspension before the tires because they will let you know when they don't work so well anymore.

Anyhow the beauty of that is not listening to Dad ended up in him changing a tire in 19 degree morning weather, being late for work AND paying $112. Nothing like those expensive lessons early in life eh?
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Yeah kinda like a real life Gas Monkey. My boss is so much like Richard that they could be brothers. I’ll bet next time your son may listen to you. Definitely need to repair suspension before customs wheels/tires. Don’t temper the enthusiasm too much. Wrenching on classic cars can be very rewarding, especially when the project is completed. Nothing like bringing back a nice classic piece of Detroit muscle. The good thing is I get to do it on others peoples dime, not mine. I have a few projects of my own. May see a thread in the future about one. I have a Cutlass that needs some attention and a Monte Carlo. I’m thinking LS swaps, maybe twin turbo one and blow the other one? Both mid 80’s models. I can’t afford anything older....:D
 
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