Car ****
- Thread starter threetango
- Start date
Help Support Homesteading & Country Living Forum:
I am up to page 65, thanks for all the great pictures.
This was my 69 Camaro I had for spring and summer in '89.
Day 1 when I brought it home, and just before I sold it. The guy had painted it but never polished it. I put a shine to it and refreshed the 327. My first engine rebuild, pretty much by myself, just had help with the cam and firing it up. It was in decent shape for 20 years old, would be worth a bunch now.
This was my 69 Camaro I had for spring and summer in '89.
Day 1 when I brought it home, and just before I sold it. The guy had painted it but never polished it. I put a shine to it and refreshed the 327. My first engine rebuild, pretty much by myself, just had help with the cam and firing it up. It was in decent shape for 20 years old, would be worth a bunch now.
I sold the Camaro and bought this 72 Chevy C-10, which I still have. In '95 I installed a 350 ZZ3 crate motor, rebuilt the trans with a some better springs for firmer shifts, I can floor it at 60 and spin the tires when it downshifts. I used to like playing with the 5.0 Mustangs when the light turned green, but only up to the posted speed limit. It's due for some new paint but it's still my baby. I still have the factory engine.
EDIT: This truck was bought new in Arizona, was traded in for down payment on a boat in Michigan. My brothers friend was a mechanic at the marina and bought the truck, garage stored every winter. I bought it in 89 and parked it every winter as well. It never saw snow until I moved to Las Vegas with a freak winter snowstorm in the desert.
EDIT: This truck was bought new in Arizona, was traded in for down payment on a boat in Michigan. My brothers friend was a mechanic at the marina and bought the truck, garage stored every winter. I bought it in 89 and parked it every winter as well. It never saw snow until I moved to Las Vegas with a freak winter snowstorm in the desert.
Last edited:
In '97 I bought this '64 Chevelle from the 72 year old original owner. He was driving on a two lane highway and when traffic stopped suddenly he couldn't and turned off the road to avoid an accident and hit the only boulder in the desert off the side of the road pushing the center of the bumper pack and crushing the radiator into the fan. I responded for the accident report and told him if he didn't fix I wanted to buy it. Two days later he called and and asked for $300.00. For a grand total of $1000.00 I bought the car, paid the towing bill, had the radiator support pulled out and straightened at a friends body shop, had a used original equipment radiator put in at another friends radiator shop, insurance, registration and title all in one day. The bumper was straightened and rechromed a few weeks later and a reproduction grill acquired for a few hundred more. The car is clean. GM records show only about 1200 station wagons made in 64, unknown how many were 2-door or 4-door, but it's rare, even if it is a wagon. I still have it, but it's been parked since my second child was born and it needs some attention.
- Joined
- Apr 4, 2020
- Messages
- 7,461
I was working for Motor Car Refinishers, And Custom painted a 1969 Camaro, black, that they put up a sign wrote backwards, said read the sign in the shine. It was put in Street Rod Magazine. I was in my 20's then. Also my fathers last truck was a C10 , like the one you have.
- Joined
- Dec 3, 2017
- Messages
- 27,297
I was working for Motor Car Refinishers, And Custom painted a 1969 Camaro, black, that they put up a sign wrote backwards, said read the sign in the shine. It was put in Street Rod Magazine. I was in my 20's then. Also my fathers last truck was a C10 , like the one you have.
View attachment 60676
You are a great auto body painter and everything else you tackle.
Remember the one where boss saw one of your paint jobs and told his painters " your fired and your fired,this is our new painter"
- Joined
- Apr 4, 2020
- Messages
- 7,461
You are a great auto body painter and everything else you tackle.
I remember, it was Central Paint and Body, Spring Street downtown Atlanta. They had about 5 painters, painting in a dirty spray booth and I went in behind them in a dirty booth and painted a totally clean and perfect paint job. He said you, you you you and you are fired. Looked at me and said name your price, you the head painter. I use to look out at that Coca Cola sign, and building everyday. Memories.
- Joined
- Apr 4, 2020
- Messages
- 7,461
That is a beauty. My car had a straight body, no rust or dents, but the paint job was never polished and the surface was like 500 grit sandpaper. I was working in a detail shop polishing cars every day so I figured it was worth my effort. I used a bunch of rubbing compound and then went around the car 5 times with progressively finer polish and finished it with a polymer sealant. The dark metallic blue glistened in the sun.I was working for Motor Car Refinishers, And Custom painted a 1969 Camaro, black, that they put up a sign wrote backwards, said read the sign in the shine. It was put in Street Rod Magazine. I was in my 20's then. Also my fathers last truck was a C10 , like the one you have.
View attachment 60676
One day I hope to paint the C-10, after I practice on the Chevelle. I used to work in a cabinet shop finishing cabinets so I have plenty of practice with the sprayers too.
- Joined
- Apr 4, 2020
- Messages
- 7,461
You can do it, and experience in cabinet shop will help. Can't go wrong repairing a classic, and antiques money is there in value.
Last edited:
- Joined
- Sep 4, 2020
- Messages
- 10,759
I will call this" car **** wannabe"
In garage there is what I believe is an 83 camero. It was there year just prior to the IROC Z was released. Looks a lot like an IROC Z but year earlier. It suffered from air pollution gizmos and hoses... Yuck.
It has been garage kept most of its life and has no rust on the body. A few small dents but in great shape.
Reinforcing braces were welded along the bottom to keep the unibody from twisting up like a pretzel.
Dropped a LS crate engine in it which just barely fit. One of the coil packs punched a hole in the air conditioning housing but that has been patched. The rest of the drive train has been upgraded. Moved the battery to the trunk to gain a little room up front to accommodate the air filter.
My buddy plans to toss the IROC Z style flarings and go with a more classic muscle car look. This is an image of what we are working toward.
Ben
In garage there is what I believe is an 83 camero. It was there year just prior to the IROC Z was released. Looks a lot like an IROC Z but year earlier. It suffered from air pollution gizmos and hoses... Yuck.
It has been garage kept most of its life and has no rust on the body. A few small dents but in great shape.
Reinforcing braces were welded along the bottom to keep the unibody from twisting up like a pretzel.
Dropped a LS crate engine in it which just barely fit. One of the coil packs punched a hole in the air conditioning housing but that has been patched. The rest of the drive train has been upgraded. Moved the battery to the trunk to gain a little room up front to accommodate the air filter.
My buddy plans to toss the IROC Z style flarings and go with a more classic muscle car look. This is an image of what we are working toward.
Ben
Now that's my kind of car!
Jim
- Joined
- Dec 3, 2017
- Messages
- 27,297
Daytona beach 1967 I was in a 1964 Chevelle with a 396 and 4 in the floor. Up pulled an old station wagon reeving his engine. I looked at my friend and laughed about how I was going to leave him in my dust!
Hot Rod Rod [ his name was Rodney] was always messing with our cars,nor sure if it was stocked or invented by Rodney my new husband.
Long story short,his front end came up off the ground as his tires skidded and left us in smoke. It was a souped up 55 Nomad. My friend got a real kick out of that,she laughed about it for days.
Hot Rod Rod [ his name was Rodney] was always messing with our cars,nor sure if it was stocked or invented by Rodney my new husband.
Long story short,his front end came up off the ground as his tires skidded and left us in smoke. It was a souped up 55 Nomad. My friend got a real kick out of that,she laughed about it for days.
- Joined
- Dec 3, 2017
- Messages
- 27,297
Another bad experiance in a car just like this one,only it had a 327 auromatic on the colunm. I still liked to pretend it was a fast car.At light again in Doraville Ga. Pulled up too far under red light,backed up to wait. Car pulled up racing engine, I floored it,right into car behind me..
Forgot to take it out of reverse.did a number on his front end. Most of my raceing was not successful.It wasn't a race car to begin with.
Forgot to take it out of reverse.did a number on his front end. Most of my raceing was not successful.It wasn't a race car to begin with.
Latest posts
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
US Navy submarines to re-arm with nuclear cruise missiles after 3 decades- Latest: UserNameTaken
-
