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Hey everybody, my name is Mike. For Christmas this year I got my wife a 1972 Chevelle, it was a field car and needs a lot of work. But it is her dream car and I am no fan of easy projects.

A little about myself, I'm an Army recruiter right now, before that I was a combat engineer, I also have been messing with cars for my entire life, so I plan on having fun with the car

welcome to the site! post of some pics of the chevelle :)

Here are some shots of the car, and me and the wife putting some work into it

Welcome from Georgia and keep the pics coming .

Nice I lived in GA until April 2011, fun place


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Welcome Mike. 1972 Malibu driver here. I like that you bought the car for your wife. She should become a member here too. Need to build some girl power. lol.. Can't wait to see the progress of your build.

Yeah it's her dream car, her dad had one when she was a kid and she has always loved them.

I tried to get her to join. Maybe I can get her to eventually


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Welcome to the site. Looks like a fun project. Seems to be a lot of 72 owners here.

Ray

Small world. Welcome to the site from another Sapper. I'm working on a '64 SS myself.

I'm not in anymore. I was med boarded with a crushed spine. Most days you can't even tell. What unit were in?

I was in the 63rd engineer company 11th engineer battalion, fort Benning GA

I am out on Recruiting duty because I trashed my ankle in Iraq, can't run anymore and I hate recruiting so I think I might get out


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Thank you for your service

Thanks for the appreciation, been doing it for a long time it pays the bills.


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I was with 84th engineers with 2nd ACR in Ft. Polk when we stood up 4th brigade, 10th Mountain. Then I was with Alpha Company.

Thanks for all you have done as well. Recruiting isn't a super fun job, but with the economy the way it, at least it's a job. (it looks like it's gonna get rough this year.)

Hey thank you too, good to see the castle out and about. Recruiting is a job but I think I'm gonna get out and enter the world o small business I got a buddy and me and him build nasty cars

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Did some work to it, she is getting better but a long way out still, I have new quartersfor it those should be goin on soon, I have sheet and will be making patches, but here is what I did so far
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Did some shaving



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And now she has doors
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And they open


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Howdy and welcome.

I was Air Force, but really, do you combat engineers really know how to put things back together, I thought you primarily destroyed things.

Sorry about the recruiter thing, I avoided it myself. I was much better at fixing radios than talking people into joining.


My sympathies that you had to be at Polk. My dads family is down in that area, about 20 miles from Polk, along 10 heading towards Oakdale. We left that area when I was still a kid.

Great progress. Love the pics.

Keep up the good work and keep the pics coming .

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Looks like you are making good progress. I have a friend who just got back his wife original 72 chevelle she had in high school and it too was sitting in some field. He just completed putting all new quarters on it and now is working on the patch work area's. Looking at your pictures, I'm guessing you are in the Reno area?

Yeah, Carson city to be exact, I could make alot more progress but I only work at the shop on the weekends and I only mess with the chevelle on days when we play with our own stuff


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Still picking away at it
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You are making some great progress, especially if you are limited on the time you can put into it. Keep posting the pics.

Yeah slowly but surely, luckily I have access to a fully stocked shop (tube benders, lift, welders, ever thing a boy could dream of) and I get help from my buddy


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Got a hood off the discount rack at summit, still havent picked it up yet, but I got a cowl hood for $120


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