Dartnut
Don't hate me because i'm beautiful
It looks great, George.
What a positive difference...
What a positive difference...
Member’s 1968 GT "personalization".
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Thanks Tom. It is a different car altogether now. Small changes do make big differences.
Newest acquisition.
I will get back to that later. I had to weld StuBBle’s skin back on the frame. Pretty happy with my first hood skin remove, repair and reinstall.
Spring time. StuBBle and Uncanny had to trade spots. Can still roll StuBBle out to work on but now I can take Uncanny to work on the nice days.
I have driven Uncanny through the later summer when it wasn’t way too hot to enjoy. He has low oil pressure when warm. I have a 1973 340 and matching 727 trans from a road runner. That will be the winter upgrade. Along with an 8 3/4 I have here. Getting it ready for paint. It will remain stock with the thermobog and all. The engine was in good shape. Quite clean inside, no sludge. I installed a new timing chain, it will get a new water pump and the rest looks ok. But I have to put it on a run stand to determine the true condition.
Can’t wait till Spring time……
Can’t wait till Spring time……
missing linc
Loose nut behind the wheel
Is that a Little Red Express?
It is, but it is buried until spring time in somebodies storage.
missing linc
Loose nut behind the wheel
Cool!
Dartnut
Don't hate me because i'm beautiful
Far out!
It needs another coat of pumpkin. I put Chevy orange underneath as a base because it covers well. Then Hemi on top. But it isn’t quite pumpkiny enough. Cuda Chic’s handy work will top the heads.
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mygasser
Well-Known Member
looking good 
i'd be tempted to block sand the tops of the valve covers to highlight the fins and lettering if they were mine.
neil.
i'd be tempted to block sand the tops of the valve covers to highlight the fins and lettering if they were mine.
neil.
You keep pretty busy for a guy that’s “I’m getting bored of working on them.”
I hope I can maintain that energy once I’m “bored”.
I hope I can maintain that energy once I’m “bored”.
4spdragtop
Well-Known Member
Looks great George! Awesome work as always!
Ok, now I might have seen everything…….well, definitely not but this is a new one on me! And I bet 99.99% of you too.
And a Black Widow to boot! Her mate may have just outlived her.
Kendog 170
Let the boy go !
That's nuts.
How did you get that paper towel in there George?
I had to do a double take! I guess it wouldn't really hurt anything, but wow.
I looked at the vin on it and it is not the trans that matches the 340. So at some point in it's life they replaced it. But it does have the factory high stall converter so at least they did that when they swapped it out. Must have done a filter at the time and stuffed that up there, crazy. Not sure how to tell if it has any perf perks.
That orange sealer was a clue someone was inside before. Back in the day the high volume transmission shops would have rebuilt ones on the shelf and just swap them. Nobody was concerned about matching numbers.
4mulas
Fixem'up
That’s just the special very very rare extra ‘loose filter’ option to provide triple filtering on the fluid. You can get replacement filters from bounty.
Motor is looking good!
Motor is looking good!
Looking great, and wow! I bet a technician was in to big of a hurry and panned it up , only thing I could think of.
Kendog 170
Let the boy go !
Or he stuffed it there to keep from getting dripped on then forgot.
Kicked outside for a few minutes when the lights were actually visible.
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