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wow did i win the lottery with this one... aside from the master cylinder
and tires, it is all original and has been sitting here for 25+ years.
for a 60+yr old she is in AMAZING shape and plans are to patch the 2
silver dollar sized holes in the forward bottom rear inner fenderwell and
wash the dust off everything else.
i will try to get the original v8/powerflite running so they can go in hemmings
because someone somewhere must need them desperately,
and then we are going to stuff her with a nasty 454 and a 4 speed muncie.
hey silver buick, guess where that 2x4 intake is supposed to go now? see,
good thing i didnt put it on the 454 vette, hah hah....
hopefully 55 chevy fenderwell headers fit, the cars are very similar.
a straight axle front, 3 feet of lift and a small 'moon' type tank hung under
the front bumper, and the 15x4 ansen slots i got hiding in the closet should
work great on the front end. widened stock rears and pie-crust 30x11.50 repops
should work great on the back end. looks like a mopar 8.75 type axle, but
everything i read says that started in '57 not '55-- i wonder what it is?
worse case i hit the junkyards and look for a dana 60 truck rear, right? right !
i lamented in an earlier post how it just didnt seem like there was any way
i could pull this off. (and honestly, the build itself may take much longer than i want )
yet, somehow the planets aligned right and we got it for (drum roll please).......
$3250.00..... with a clean hawaii title and plates in storage so NO back taxes.
stay tuned, we are bringing her home this saturday morning....
and i really need to go do something nice for my wife as shes my partner in crime
in every crazy scheme i get us into. she was all for this one, no hesitation at all
when we rolled up to the guys house--we didnt even get out of the car yet and she said
"if he will take less than the $5k i got in my purse, BUY THE DAMN THING- we can worry
about how to get it home later"...
hey, anybody want to buy a vette with a snarly 454?
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