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Hey, I'm Weylin. I live out in Apache Junction Arizona. It's the Pheonix/Mesa Metro area... Anyways I'm 17 and a junior in highschool I'm the oldest junior at my school I started a year late. I've been driving for a little over 3 years and I know very basic mechanics; oil change, radiator stuff, fan, ignition, dash board, I also know the basic into how an engine and transmission work to make your tires spin. Right now I drive a 1973 (not a really popular year) Chevelle El Camino. The guy I bought it from was a complete moron. Omg, its just unreal how stupid he is. It was well worth the buy though. $750 for the truck in its condition. And $800 to replace the transmission which the guy I bought it from wore every peice in the transmission down so much that my tranny guy had to replace everything except the tranny case. It's also paint white/baby blue. I'm going to change that soon just some black primer will do until I can afford a real paint job. Right now I just wanna learn about cars, I dunno a whole lot but I'm really interested. Plus back in the 70's my dad worked for a Chevy factory in Indianapolis so he knows alot about what I wanna learn. In 5 years, what I want out of this truck is true muscle. I want it to run a 10 second quarter mile (because thats the fastest I can go and still be street legal)

Anyways.. any questions just hit me up. I'm cool with meetin new people and all that jazz.

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Welcome to CHR, Weylin. Lots of knowledged to be gained here, some very intelligent hot rodders hang out here. El Camino sounds neat. have fun with it.

welcome to CHR Weylin.
have any pictures of your Elky?

sweet car. I just finished the stripping of my 53 chevy pickup truck.

I think 11.60 ( maby it's 11.50 ) is the fastest you will want to go for a NHRA sanctioned race, cause you won't need any safty gear other than the factory seat belts and a helmey. Sounds like a nice elky. I'd keep the paint for now, primer will draw moisture and cause surface rust. flat black paint would be a diffrent story.

Heres my beast.




Me and the El Truck.


Oh ya, it has door mirrors now, the right ones to. The guy I bought it from wanted to keep them for some odd reason <_<...
I'll get an engine picture later on if I rememeber.

The car looks great!! but who's the funny looking guy standing in front of it blocking my view???? Do you know if that is an original color combination on it??? Nice colors for an Elky.

Lol thanks, haha the funny lookin guy is meh a few months ago when I got the truck running. No actually the original colour cominnation was a 2 tone Green and Blue. The guy I bought it from spray painted it white and light blue, and you can see underneither the ends of the hood and some other body spots where the original colour still shows.
Also the bumpers and the side panel on the doors (the top one) are supposed to be chrome, but he spray painted those as well.
The body of it is definantly straight, there is only one small dent abve the drivers side headlight, and the drivers side rear tire well, theres a chrome lining around it, that got a little smashed up but ill repalce it later.

Well, sounds like you have some work to do on the car, enjoy the project and keep us updated on your progress.

thats a cool ride! i had a 77 GMC sprint(same as elky) almost 10 years ago. paid $230 for it and drove it for 2years! it was a great car but rough, then i bought a nice 76 elky with a rod knock for $150. started to swap motors then gave up and sold them both. oh well. good luck on your ride! good to see young kids that arent into ricers!

Aww I hate Ricers!!!!!!!! Loud, Obnoxious and no real power.

This guy I know sold an 83 Camaro, 350ci engine with a turbo 350 transmission. He sold it for $1200 and a pair of rims that are worthless, then he bought a Nissan Sentra for $600, spent $800 to get it driveable because of thermostate problems, radiator issue and all new breaks. And he wants to turn it into a ricer racer.
So his lil Nissan has a lil 5 speed tranny in it, and he rides the clutch so much you can let off the clutch in first gear and it won't die. He can't even get it to burn out in the dirt and he thinks its all baddass and stuff. He let me drive it and I got it to burn out easy on the street.

I can't wait till I put a 4 speed Muncie transmission in the El Truck and dump the clutch in his front yard, I hate that kid.

Originally posted by weylinthedirty
Aww I hate Ricers!!!!!!!! Loud, Obnoxious and no real power.

This guy I know sold an 83 Camaro, 350ci engine with a turbo 350 transmission. He sold it for $1200 and a pair of rims that are worthless, then he bought a Nissan Sentra for $600, spent $800 to get it driveable because of thermostate problems, radiator issue and all new breaks. And he wants to turn it into a ricer racer.
So his lil Nissan has a lil 5 speed tranny in it, and he rides the clutch so much you can let off the clutch in first gear and it won't die. He can't even get it to burn out in the dirt and he thinks its all baddass and stuff. He let me drive it and I got it to burn out easy on the street.

I can't wait till I put a 4 speed Muncie transmission in the El Truck and dump the clutch in his front yard, I hate that kid.

A super T10 will be easier on your wallet, as long as it don't make an overly outrageous amount of HP, the T10 will take it.

Ill have to look into that. Thanks for the advice. Iunno right now I'm dealing with the engine rebuild first I think so the transmission is going to be a summer project.