Some Updates
 

Haven't been on the website in quite some time. Since I finally got my car on the road in 2015 I have done a few more things to it. I ended up putting a GPS speedometer in it after the second speedometer cable ripped the stem of the speedometer off where the cable screws onto. I also put a new Autogear M22W in the car after the old 4 speed started leaking real bad. The PO had stripped 3 out of the 4 screws holding the front bearing retainer on and besides it leaking at the counter shaft hole it was really leaking at the retainer. I did a few other small items here and there but nothing really big. Added some 396 emblems to the Cowl Hood. Some new pics

I like everything about your car ,always have . I wish I still felt that way about mine .

Thanks, don't feel bad I get that way too especially if something pops up out of the blue when driving it. I really don't drive the car as much as I should and I think part of that was because every time I took it out something else needed attention. I'm pretty confident about the car now and hope next year I drive it more. :banana: Bowtie smiley

Your car looks very nice.
Glad you have gotten most of the bugs out and its getting reliable.
How do you like the new speedo?
I went with the electric programable on mine.

I like it. The only thing it has to search for the signal every time you start the car which is no big deal. It is very accurate and has 9 different features you can scan thru. The one thing that is nice is one of the features is a clock which my car didn't have.

Your car is looking really nice. Need to tell Ric about the GPS speedo, mostly cause he needs a clock.

Thanks, in the first picture of the dash if you blow the picture up you can see the clock is displayed in red. That is where everything appears as you scan through the features. I keep mine on the clock feature.

Car does look very good.

Thanks, took awhile and a lot of work to get it where I wanted it to be but I'm satisfied with the outcome.

I think Im going to start driving my El Camino ,just cant get into the Chevelle Vert anymore . Hank ,which Speedo did you use and how hard to install it ?

First off they're not cheap but I was having problems getting the speedometer cable to come up to the back of the speedometer properly and it seemed to make the needle bounce. The first brand new cable ended up breaking in the first 25 miles. The second cable went about 1200 miles but ended up causing the stem to break off the back of the gauge which ruined the gauge in the process. I decided to go with the GPS speedometer to eliminate the cable all together. I bought it from Summit and they have a sale on it right now. The Summit Part # ATM 3982 it is an Autometer Gauge. It was fairly easy to wire in the only thing is it didn't come with a connector housing that I bought from American Autowire. Summit carries the connector also Part # 500585. It has a GPS signal box which is small enough and has a strong magnet in it that I ran up near the end of dash and have sitting at the base of my inner front window pillar. There are about 7 reviews of the gauge on Summits website. Here is a link to the installation instructions.

http://www.autometer.com/media/manual/2650-1597.pdf