Thread: My new one is home!

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back in `83 we had moved to where we are now, I was in between projects at the time, she had wanted this house we`re in now, Ok to me it was an ok deal it had a three car garage attached, she had said at the time if we bought that I could buy another project, well what I did not tell her I already had one picked out, `34 chevy coupe, ex gasser, 394 olds with injectors, bm hydro, 12 bolt, with the old style MH racing slicks with the pie cuts on the outside edge, black steel rims with an old faded painted on sponsor CAL Speed shop, this car had been sitting outside this building for ten or so years sinse the first time I saw it, I work on the owner for about two days, he finally agreed, two days later I show up with a trailer, and now he won`t sell, he did by the way pay for the trailer, he decided he could`nt let go of it. At the time I knew I would`nt have changed much of anything on it, just would have made it streetable.

Dave - that's a, a , a - gasp- Chebbie!! OMG

Hmmm- Ford, V10, C6 or Tremec, 9", just enough space. Keep the natives stirred up

Besides that - great looking beginnings

Dave do what I've been threatening to do! Put a Ford in the Chebbie!
When it's on the track and people ask what's under the hood...a 454?
You could say naw I got a 460!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by stovens

Dave do what I've been threatening to do! Put a Ford in the Chebbie!
When it's on the track and people ask what's under the hood...a 454?
You could say naw I got a 460!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now, that would be interesting... Not sure I'd live through it, but interesting!!!


Thanks for the links, Don! Whatever I do with it, keep it, build it, sell it, trade it I'm going to be quite fussy that it's history is preserved and it comes back to life as a gasser--even if in street form.. I remember them running as a kid, when I got the car home yesterday I just sat in my chair and looked at it for an hour or so and enjoyed a lot of really great memories from my first days at the track! I was a MoPar guy running Super Stock, but the gasser's always got everyone "up to the fence" when they ran--wheels up and a bit out of control, but putting down one hell of a good race!!!! I guess for me the thing is it doesn't matter that it's another one of them dreaded Chevrolet's, it deserves to be put back to it's former glory and be out there on the track for other's to enjoy... Now, anybody notice where I left my old 'Nash 5 speed and my Racemaster slicks???

hey dave, put a big bad ford in it you dont care about, fix the front suspension, then have fun, drive it like you stole it, i sold a belair post in 1997 still regret it, a 460 would lok good in there

Originally Posted by simpsongreg68

hey dave, put a big bad ford in it you dont care about, fix the front suspension, then have fun, drive it like you stole it, i sold a belair post in 1997 still regret it, a 460 would lok good in there

Got to admit that thought has crossed my mind any number of times, Greg!!!! I dunno, probably won't do a thing with it until I finish researching the history of the car.... The "vultures" have descended on me alreay though.....most of the chebbie guys in town have cruised by to check it out, some made some really silly offers for the car. Got to wait and see what I can dig up on the background.....