I'd be happy with the lr fender off a little red express
Let's hear your "black widow" part story.
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My buddy says….”I have this old Harley that Chucky Boggs used to own, it’s all in pieces, do you want to buy it for $800”?
That started this snowball effect that lasted for 35 years, and continues to this day. I decided I would put it back together using only swap meet parts, so I spent the next 2 years building it. Rode it for one summer and the primary chain broke and took out the case. As fate would have it, my buddy says….”Chucky would like to have his bike back, so I’ll trade you this 64 Belvedere for it”. Deal done and I take the Belvedere and commence to swapping a 440 into it, drive it to the Nationals, and put it in a hole in the show field, bigger than a 55 gallon trash barrel. K&K fixes it and pays to have it repainted and all is well.
One day I’m sent to a job, and across the street sits a 67 GTX and a 69 Sport Satellite convertible. I spend my lunches going over the GTX and decide to drive my Belvedere to work one day to show the owner of the GTX. I offer a trade, his non running GTX for my running Belvedere. Done deal, I fix the GTX, paint it, and drive it for the next 25 years until I get the bug to find me a 70 Roadrunner. Low and behold one pops up in the next town over, so I offer a swap, GTX for Roadrunner. That was 5 years ago, I think I’m done with that saga, but, no more snowballs, I’m leaving the RR just the way it is!
Somewhere I have some pics of the Harley, but here’s the progression of each car from the day I got them and the finished project before I traded.
That started this snowball effect that lasted for 35 years, and continues to this day. I decided I would put it back together using only swap meet parts, so I spent the next 2 years building it. Rode it for one summer and the primary chain broke and took out the case. As fate would have it, my buddy says….”Chucky would like to have his bike back, so I’ll trade you this 64 Belvedere for it”. Deal done and I take the Belvedere and commence to swapping a 440 into it, drive it to the Nationals, and put it in a hole in the show field, bigger than a 55 gallon trash barrel. K&K fixes it and pays to have it repainted and all is well.
One day I’m sent to a job, and across the street sits a 67 GTX and a 69 Sport Satellite convertible. I spend my lunches going over the GTX and decide to drive my Belvedere to work one day to show the owner of the GTX. I offer a trade, his non running GTX for my running Belvedere. Done deal, I fix the GTX, paint it, and drive it for the next 25 years until I get the bug to find me a 70 Roadrunner. Low and behold one pops up in the next town over, so I offer a swap, GTX for Roadrunner. That was 5 years ago, I think I’m done with that saga, but, no more snowballs, I’m leaving the RR just the way it is!
Somewhere I have some pics of the Harley, but here’s the progression of each car from the day I got them and the finished project before I traded.
Shortly after I bought my cuda in 1995 I found a guy selling an original set of 383 exhaust pipes locally, so I bought them. I had raced with every A engine 273/318/340/360 up until then and decided I wanted to do a big block. The original build was a 400, which eventually morphed into a 500 stroker. The ironic part was I never did find a reasonable deal on exhaust manifolds so the car started with Hedman B body headers and eventually got a set of Tti's. I never did use those exhaust pipes and ended up selling them.
Kendog 170
Let the boy go !
Basket cases..rollers...others needs total resto===== money pits!!! Life would be so much easier and simplier to just go to the bank and buy a DONE car!!!! But what fun is that!!????
I told the wife the other day, see that intake??? It is the start of our next Classic!!!! Then I find pout she chunked it in the trash!!!!! (not really) ...<Maybe I should just give it away!!???
I told the wife the other day, see that intake??? It is the start of our next Classic!!!! Then I find pout she chunked it in the trash!!!!! (not really) ...<Maybe I should just give it away!!???
ESP47
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Saw an ad on CL for an 8 3/4 . Watched it for a few months then thought I might be able to pick it up cheap. Drove to the small Idaho town in the mountains only to find out it was still attached to a car buried in snow…. Urgh… didn’t want to hassle with it in 3’ of snow !
Looked at the VIN and realized it was a 69 Swinger 340 4sp ! With no front clip and suspension dangling perched atop cinder blocks . I knew if I pulled the rear end the car would get scrapped .
So I bought the whole car for 1200$
Now after rotisserie blasting and going over every nut and bolt its home to a 408 W2 with 3.91s .
That was the most expensive A-Body 8 3/4 I know of !
Looked at the VIN and realized it was a 69 Swinger 340 4sp ! With no front clip and suspension dangling perched atop cinder blocks . I knew if I pulled the rear end the car would get scrapped .
So I bought the whole car for 1200$
Now after rotisserie blasting and going over every nut and bolt its home to a 408 W2 with 3.91s .
That was the most expensive A-Body 8 3/4 I know of !
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