Recent content by gdrill

My definition. Patina: Sideways on gravel in 3rd gear. Ya, I like patina.

When my Nova was sold new it was $3297.70 with options to the dealership in Utah. Pretty close to its weight. I call it “Buck A Pound”. Do you recall what your SS sold for new?

Regardless of brand, you have to respect reality. That Nova would walk all over a Duster or Demon. That is not taking anything away from Mopar. Just giving credit where it’s due. Just like the fact that the Duster / Demon are copies of the Nova styling cues. They had a good thing. Obviously the...

I just made an agreement with a fellow on marketplace on a 1970 383 block I have. Good for rebuild. His buddy needs a block for his Challenger. He is driving 12 hours to get it! All good by me. Price is quite cheap and he can't find anything closer. Tonight I dig it out of the corner and start...

There is likely nothing dangerous about that type of repair in certain parts of a car. But, if somebody is doing that, might they bondo a rusted frame rail? YES, they will. Seen it myself. Body work is work for a reason. A repair like that will need to be repaired again at some point if the car...

LOL, I forgot about the torque squeak! I'm sure it is in the FSM.

This is where they really dropped the ball……IMO of course. The scoop was a near perfect match for the bumper. They both have the sticking forward attack shape.

Way overthought. I have three different types of wheel wrench that could be in a any of my vehicles, you know, the ones that don't "click"! The standard bar that came with the car, a 1 foot crossbar and an 18 inch crossbar. Never gonna be the same with any of them. I use and impact on all my...

OK great. Thank you. This will be very helpful in confirming my suspicion.

I found this post again. I used the info to install a front clip as you showed. These 8 dowel points you use would be common to all 67 - 76 A-body chassis dimensions I presume? You mentioned you could share the lengths (Difference in height) of each point but I did not see that. I would like to...

Sell for profit and buy a nice block and rotating assembly.

Nice car. Very similar to Leanna's. She was in Tennessee.

In this case, it's worth a reputation apparently.

Another car then

73 340. It’s nothing yet. But this winter it should have a home.