Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Plugging Along


Can only do bits and pieces at a time, but finally making some progress on the remaining floor pans underneath.


While it is a real bear getting almost 50 years worth of grim off, it's a real sense of accomplishment when it's finally cleaned off. After scraping, degreasing, wire brushing, touching up, rust encapsulating, and priming with red oxide primer, the final "Professional Grade" undercoating goes on. This stuff dries on like fingernail polish. A little more touchup, and on to the front suspension. Donor A-Arms have been acid dipped and red oxide primed. A friend is pressing out the old bushings and pressing in the replacements. Once I get those back, I can compress the coil springs and remove the old and install the new.

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

It's Out, Finally


Appreciate the time a couple friends took today helping remove the old Slim Jim transmission and 421 powerplant. Engine needs to be freshened up. An original T-10 4 speed from a low mileage 63 GP donor out east will be going back in. On the back side, a 3.64 posi will be replacing the 3.08 open rearend. With all of the big stuff out, I hope to clean, wire brush, encapsulate, and undercoat the remainder of the floor and frame--which is in remarkedly great shape.

Sunday, January 2, 2011

17 Seconds of Pure Pontiac Excitement

The wicked laugh at the end sums it up nicely:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-zJ_gDdggk&feature=related

Sadly, this video was found through a Craigslist post that simply stated:

broke the valve in the head and ruined one head one piston and the block selling all the rest of the parts minus the carb everything else will go body parts engine parts rearend seats all of it, let me know what your interested in and ill price it for you. Engine was a 400 stock bore but tons of performance stuff