I think this would be a good place.......

[68ChevelleSS]

Originally Posted by earthquake68

Thanks for the compliments guys. I usually don't like my own work, and aside from a couple small defects, I'm very pleased with how this one turned out.



.............it's for sale by the way!

Saw it on Craigslist again! My wife would literally shoot me if I came home with another car. lol

[earthquake68]

Originally Posted by 68ChevelleSS

Saw it on Craigslist again! My wife would literally shoot me if I came home with another car. lol

If you pay the asking price, I'll throw in my frag vest and kevlar!

[68ChevelleSS]

Lol I already have those. But I wouldn't go back in the house without it.

[earthquake68]

Ok, I thought I'd update you all on the car situation.

I finally traded off the Nova. A guy had to have it, so I got something I thought would be easier to sell. I really did care about the Nova, so when I made the trade deal, I wasn't very happy about it.

I brought home this '53 Ford Kustom. It was nice but it had a bunch of stuff wrong with it. Nothing worked inside except the CD player. Not even the radio worked. I spent a LOT of time making the car right, which made me resent it even more. Anyway, here are the pictures of it.

[earthquake68]

So anyway, I went to a couple shows and put a few miles on it, but never planned on keeping the car. I had it for sale since the day I brought it home. I FINALLY got a trade deal I wanted. Ironically, it was to the guy I got the car from to begin with. (we both trade cars pretty regularly) SO, I brought home 500 horse power for the Chevelle, and this.....









It's a '61 Bel Air. My plan was to fix it up enough to be a fun cruiser for the family. I really like these old B bodies. THEN I brought it home and my oldest daughter fell in love. What's a dad to do? I gave it to her. Now we have a cool father daughter project to tinker with. Someone's pretty happy about it, too.

[flash]

Your daughter has great taste in cars and is quite cute too, with her and that car you will have trouble keeping the young men away .Keep us posted on the build and I hope she jumps right in there with you to work on it.

[shadowgray396]

Looks like a fun project.

[carpoor]

That would be really cool with a 348/409 and a 4 speed! Multiple carburetors are a must!

[flash]

I would have to go back stock with that one if it were mine but it would also be a killer Sleeper with a big block under the hood.As long as its brought back there is no wrong way to do it.

[earthquake68]

UGH! Kids these days. That project didn't last long. It's my car again. My daughter will be 15 next month and I told her it was her car unless she screwed up. A few nights ago, we caught her smoking in her room with her mother and I home. This was just after we found out she's failing two subjects and she lied to our faces about the cigarettes.

The next day I searched her room, found her cigarettes and put the car up for sale.

When I was her age, I worked my butt off for every penny I could scrounge and saved up $800 to buy a rusty wreck of a '64 Chevelle that I poured dollar after dollar into, and worked on every day until it was road worthy. I GAVE her this car with the condition that she be the one to do the labor on it. It didn't even mean enough to her try and hide the fact that she was smoking.

I just don't understand. Anybody want a real decent '61 Bel Air. Cora did a good job of rebuilding the carburetor and I fixed the ballast resister so it runs decent now.

Kids can be disappointing.