The 57 in its natural habitat. In the garage and up on jack stands


NH by M Patterson, on Flickr


Actually just an oil change and a check over. Last year’s 50th High School reunion got cancelled and rescheduled to next month. I’m still planning on driving the car back to Illinois. I really haven’t driven it that much since I got it ready last year so it’s basically ready to go. I ‘m going to make a trip to Tucson in it sometime in the next couple of weeks mostly just to check the gas mileage since I switched to the dual quads.

I’ve been driving it around locally over the last couple of months just to see if any bugs show up…..so far so good, for the car anyway. For me it pretty much depends on the day. Some days are great and on other days my left leg gives me fits.

I’ve actually been kicking around the idea of turning in my man card and pulling the 4 speed and throwing the 46RH I had built in it. On the bad days it sure is tempting . The 46RH was built for a future project that’s back-burnered for the time being. I figure I’ll hold up on that decision till after the reunion and see how that trip goes.

I did pick up half a Hemi a couple weeks ago. Dave and I went halfs on it figuring to either sell it at some point of just keep it around for parts in case either of us needs something. It’s just a 331 but it’s complete and has a decent pair of heads.


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