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Hey Mike you do help on all my projects!!! Your good advice helps to keep me from getting too radical on them!!!!

Im still buting sheet metal for my truck...latest purchase is windshield and bench seat, which i want to recover myself...not sure quite how yet. Engine and tranny is in the future...nothing sandblasted primered or filled as of yet either...

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Hey Mike you do help on all my projects!!! Your good advice helps to keep me from getting too radical on them!!!!

the older i get the less radical i like. i built a camaro in the late 80's, for a guy, with a 502 cu.in. that held the fastest st. car a few yrs. at the richmond drag-way. 10.8 closed up and st. tires. it had the have a st. insp. sticker to run. but it won't fit to drive everyday. he sold it to a guy, that said he was gonna go faster, so he carried it to his man, they pulled the motor and reworked it and slowed down .2. thats the reason i used blowers for 20 yrs. basic stock motor with a plenty of power when needed.

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If the seat your wanting to recover has a coveron it now you just need to take it(the cover) apart and use it as your patern

Nice dash Dave, you are finally figuring your way around a chevy!

Lt1s10, is it really that simple to just bolt it on to a stock motor and go? I would love to have a blower system but I don't know anything about them.

Originally Posted by brickman

Nice dash Dave, you are finally figuring your way around a chevy!

Lt1s10, is it really that simple to just bolt it on to a stock motor and go? I would love to have a blower system but I don't know anything about them.

keep the boast down, timing low, and be sure you have enough carb. and show it some respect and you can ride anywhere you want to. the white el camino had was a stock 454, with a 671 on it. drove it all over the country. did a lot of profiling and no racing.

Hey all, I haven't posted to this particular thread in quite a while. So anyway, not much has changed with the Firebird, I roughed in the fit for the front fenders just to see how they would fit back in August and other than spending more money not much more progress has been made on it since then.

As for the Cameo, I have (finally) realized after all these years, that its' soul is one that I must have made really angry in a previous life...Then again, maybe I bring it on myself....

The simplest damn things seem to cause me so much grief with it.

Back in the spring, I got the rear bumper pieces and front bumper guards on it which was a much bigger pain than I could have ever imagined. Actually, the rear pieces went on great (of course they are orignals so it makes sense). After they were on, I was supremely confident that it was a downhill battle as the front bumper guards are simply 2 bolts each. I was thinking 15-20 minutes, if I nurse a beer between them, no problem.

Now I'll admit, if I would have just conceded and modded the inner front bumper brackets when I first realized they were probably going to need the mod, it would have been quicker and much less frustrating. I'll bite the bullet and admit it though, I was feeling lazy that day and tried like hell to get it to go on without pulling them out and just doing the mod. The more I tried to coax it, and "sweet talk" (read curse the h*** out of) it, the more p.o.'d I got.

Finally after about 20 minutes of this nonsense, I realized that the definition of insanity was starting to look pretty damn close to the image in the mirror, so I removed the inner brackets, modded them and put them back in.

Next, I put the first bumper guard on and *SURPRISE!* it , went on just like it's supposed to. At that point, (and believe it or not I can still remember thinking this to myself)..."that's right..#$%#$..mess with the bull, you get the horns..." Juvenile, I know, but at the time, it made me feel so much better.

So, with smug satisfaction, I grabbed the second one and went about mounting it to the bumper. This is, ironically, the exact moment, that the Cameo decided it was time to put me in my place. I put the bumper guard up to the bumper, and to my absolute horror, realized that second one wasn't even going to fit the bumper at all. It wasn't cut the same as the first one. If I matched the cut of the guard to the bumper, the top of it stuck out (forward) about an inch farther than the other one.....Shouldn't have tried saving the $30.00 going with a different supplier than I usually do for that kind of stuff for my truck.

So, broke down and spent the extra money for a good set and I chalk it all up as a lesson learned.

Here are a couple pics I took during the summer after this whole fiasco.

Everybody keep up the good work.

Cheers,
Dutch

The Cameo looks great Dutch. Know what ya mean on the little things eating up a bunch of time!!!!

nice ride!

Thanks guys. It's about due for another round of resto though. I don't know if I am ready for it, but it is. I am also quite certain that any budget regarding the project that I submit to the capital finance comittee (chaired by my lovely bride) will most likely be denied. Especially after all the $$$ I have dumped over the past year or two into the flaming chicken. So, I'll just keep driving it when the weather is nice and eventually, I'll work it into the things to do list.

If I could just convince my wife that the priortization of the honey-do list should be topped by my projects.....

Cheers,
Dutch

If I could just convince my wife that the priortization of the honey-do list should be topped by my projects.....

Good luck on that happening, BUT if it does you'll have to let us know how.

Good luck with that cffisher, my wife doesn't mind moving her honey-do's around the list as long as they are on top!

Sweet looking truck there firechicken, got her looking good. Yes there are alot of trials with these old rigs, but hell if it was easy everyone would be doing it!

Yup. I suppose if you married guys don't do what is on the honey-do list you wil wind up on the wifey's do-do list??????

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Yup. I suppose if you married guys don't do what is on the honey-do list you wil wind up on the wifey's do-do list??????

is that the same thing as being on the alimony list?

Originally Posted by lt1s10

is that the same thing as being on the alimony list?

I would imagine the alimony list is equally expensive. Still costs money, just don't have to put up with the nagging!!!!!!