November 25, 2011

The car is resting (my wallet is resting too) for a while.

All 6 windows work now, even though the drivers door is still not on the car. This was quiet an accomplishment since none of the window parts are made anymore. I was fortunate enough the find what I needed in junk yards.

I'm waiting to put the carpet and interior together until the dust from the body work is finished are close to being finished.

The engine is still at the machine shop waiting its turn to be worked over by Nelson. 

The front suspension is all together. The hardest thing to find for the front was the lower ball joints. I was able to find some on ebay from a seller that did not have them listed, but just happened to have a pair laying around!

November 18, 2011

Kyle and Steven started sanding the trunk lid today.

Jacob and IB started on the front brakes.

November 11, 2011

Today Kyle and Steven took a nap in the trunk!

Jacob and Paul “fixed” some holes in the floor.

Despite all this hard work the guys did get the rear brakes back together. And the front brakes and suspension are underway!

October 21, 2011

Last week and this week we worked on the brakes and suspension. Everything is worn out! All suspension parts and brake parts are shot! This car was a road hazard when it was last on the road, which was about 2 years ago.

Kyle is cleaning parts.

IB and Steven are beating the car into submission!

Paul is getting the rear brakes together.

October 6, 2011

Well, I said I wasn’t going to hot rod the engine… But… I guess I was wrong. So let the hot rodding begin! We got a Holley 4 barrel carburetor and an Edelbrock intake and a performance cam.

September 30, 2011 & October 1, 2011

We have the engine disassembled and ready too take to a machine shop. Don’t know which one???

Jacob and I went junk yard’n Saturday October 1, 2011. We visited Steve Ivester’s yard in Lawndale, NC. He’s been collecting Mopar cars and parts for 30 years. He knows his stuff. He took us to the “new” field, where there were only about 6 cars. We went to work on a ’66 Sport Fury and came out with a bumper, right fender and rear window regulator parts. So it was another sucsesful day of junk yard’n!

September 23, 2011

We started to disassemble the engine this week. Much thanks to my neighbor, Jim, for explaining the engine 4 strokes with his cut-away view engine. It was very helpful and the boys learned a lot.

I’ve learned that the engine we removed from the car is 1974 318, the donor engine I have is a 1968 318. We need a donor engine because the ’74 has a cracked block. So we will end up with an engine from ’74 and ’68 going into a ’66.