New build for shop system
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One is ready for paint. The second one has putty drying still but will be ready later this evening. I might sand it tonight to let the dust settle overnight then paint tomorrow. Swapped out the paint, they mixed me a neon baby blue ffs... not at all what I asked for! Going similar colour to what they were. A little more pale blue/green. I think I’ll paint the lowmax boxes black and use the blue/green paint on their trim rings. I dunno, I’m not a designer but all one colour in the living room would be a big wall of black or???
Also picked up wire and some hardware to make my own quickie binding posts.
Got the old biscuit back with some new shoes. Drives better but sure feels different after an alignment. Had excessive toe in which I figured, but never got around to it before the tire scrubbed bad enough to say eff it.
Also picked up wire and some hardware to make my own quickie binding posts.
Got the old biscuit back with some new shoes. Drives better but sure feels different after an alignment. Had excessive toe in which I figured, but never got around to it before the tire scrubbed bad enough to say eff it.
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Took it to the local race track a year or two ago, tracks abandoned, made a couple laps! The old “turbo thrift” 250ci was singing! Also to it to the operating race track on a day when you paid by the car load, there was 9 of us in her and pretty comfortable still. Two guys were big, but I bet we could have got two more skinny chicks in!
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_straight-6_engine
Scroll down to third gen for the 250. This car is base model, farmer bought. Manual steering and brakes, three on the tree, radio delete, no clock. He kept a note pad in the glove box of repairs and the last entry was “119th tank of fuel, aug xx, 1981” thought it was kinda neat.
Scroll down to third gen for the 250. This car is base model, farmer bought. Manual steering and brakes, three on the tree, radio delete, no clock. He kept a note pad in the glove box of repairs and the last entry was “119th tank of fuel, aug xx, 1981” thought it was kinda neat.
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I’ll have to look again but the “proteca plate” card is in the owners manual if I remember right. Car is a little rough, did some metal work and the interior started to show wear after I started driving it daily. It was pretty mint inside but the seats and door panels getting rough from age and sudden return to service! Car had 46,xxx miles on it when I put her back in the road.
Almost ready to sling some paint on these boxes, just a couple touch ups with putty that I’m waiting to dry and good to go.
Almost ready to sling some paint on these boxes, just a couple touch ups with putty that I’m waiting to dry and good to go.
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- Broken beyond repair but highly affable
I had service dovuments and manuals a plenty in the Chevy and my first car, a 1969 Dodge Dart 4-door with a factory leftover 1968 225 Super Slant Six I believe and that was really helpful to me when I had to replace shocks etc as I knew nobody had touched the Dart's shocks since probably the Carter administration. Another bonus was that they were lower mileage cars under 70,000 miles when I got them and not total basket cases. The Dart was actually owned by the car lot owner's grandmother and could be verified. The CHOKE lived up to it's name though.
