| Author | Message | ||
     Iamike |
I always wanted one of these.   | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
You suck! What year? '69? | ||
| 12x9sl |
Nice!! What year and motor? | ||
| Sifo |
It's a 70! You bastard! Just don't tell me it's a 454 with a 4 speed. | ||
| Iamike |
Well I have to admit it's my neighbor's. He painted his floor and I offered to let him keep it in my garage for a few days so it doesn't have to sit outside. It is actually his car from high-school. I think it is a 396 and started out with a 4-speed but he changed it to an auto (not sure why). He tore it down to the frame and started over. Most of the metal was still in good shape since it was stored in the barn for the past 35 or so years. As he approached $35k fixing it up he had to draw the line on making it as close to original as he could. Since it was his as new he just liked having it running again. It really sounds nice when he lights it up. | ||
| Ducxl |
They may have called it a 396 but it actually displaced 402 in 1970.I know everything SS Chevy from that era. Does the hood still work? (Message edited by ducxl on May 10, 2012) | ||
| Danger_dave |
I bought a new Honda yesterday. 25cc OHC 1.1hp 4-stroke. Boy is my yard tidy.  | ||
| Cityxslicker |
I know where a 69 396 SS with a 4 spd Muncie sits... up on jacks, wrapped in a plastic bubble.... sad really - it needs to be on the road. Last time I checked - the price to play was 17K.... It was his highschool car. It is in much better condition than the 69 429 Mustang that also sits on blocks (no - that motor aint original, and it ain't a 'Boss'.... but it has all the goodies - at a fraction of the collector price) | ||
| Etennuly |
My son came home with a 454 big block for his ole' Chevy 4x4 the other day. We got to checking the block numbers and found it to be a 1970 396 out of a pickup. A scrap yard find, semi dirty and nasty looking, nobody knew it came with a Weiland aluminum intake, Crane roller rockers, chrome cam chain covers and valve covers, and recently installed soft plugs. The scrap guy was going to save it for himself but decided to let it go. It came in in an old truck that a tree had fallen across. When he gets it in his truck, which now has 42" tires, it should keep him from bogging in the bogs!  | ||
| Ltbuell |
..Iamike, clean garage.I can barely park the bike in there.Wish mine was at least half as cleared out as yours is.Our vehicles have NEVER seen the insides of a garage in way,way too long.Coincidently,i have been slowly(read thatS.....L....O.....W....L.....Y.....  )purging boxes of"stuff" to make room to at least have some work room at least.I had,in the mid 70's(after high school), a '66 SS 396 Chevelle,4 speed with the infamous"knee knocker " tach on the dash(was a odd place for a factory tach to be located-to the right of the column on the face of the dash).Was a pretty cool car(heavy but cool).The guy i bought it from messed up the original hood(flew open going down the road scenerio),so he put on a "plain jane" hood.People wanted so much for that original type hood that i just left it that way even when i sold it several years later.That thing loved to"eat" starters all over the place(hated having the headers wrap around it so it really hated the heat),i'd have to let it sit for a while after cruising it down the main in Walnut Creek,CA then fire it up.Still despite that i really loved that car and the times back then.Met some pretty cool,fun people then with other pretty cool cars and such.Got so many good times and stories from that era. | ||
| Iamike |
I wish it was clean...I see some of these guy's garages and how organized they are. I have too many hobbies and too much stuff to support them. It was fun watching him put it back together. I noticed they had heat shielding around the starter. I was amazed at the condition of the trim. Usually it is all pitted but his is stainless and in real good shape. Most of his electrical stuff was bad so he replaced all of it, plus all new interior, paint, lines etc. I still haven't driven it yet but will soon. He was laughing because his son couldn't get used to having to step on the gas to set the choke. Ah, the old days. | ||
| Ltbuell |
...ah yes,the good ole days.Remember them very well(grew up back then) and still had to do that through the years working on some of my own cars as well as customer's cars(not so much nowadays).Do miss working on them though.Great times and memories.LT |
