What's your 2020 ride?

[67 Malibu]

Drove out to the shop that is doing the body & paint on my '70 Nova SS to deliver the NOS front bumper today. I like the job that they did so well that I may try to get it done to make the tour next year. I bought the car complete in 1989 & it has been put away until a couple of years ago when I thought that I would make it an original patina type tour car but discovered that I could not stand putting a bunch of new parts onto a car that looked that bad. This is the shop that had previously put the quarters on my '57 & later put a complete trunk floor in the '67 Malibu that was our tour car for years. All of that 15+ years ago. So here is what is done so far; NOS quarters, fenders & doors metal patched & boy do you find a bunch of hidden things when you put a car on a rotisserie & completely strip it. I left them alone to do it & spent most of my time trying to find parts that I had put away for it over the years. And I had purchased a bunch of NOS parts for the car over the years. A couple that I knew that I had I never did find. But now that I have spent time running down & buying the same thing somewhere else, I'm sure that I will find them. After we got home we discovered that in going over it with a fine tooth comb, we had only managed to take one picture. Here it is;

[Monster]

When I was a kid, I thought for sure that by 2020 we'd have flying cars, a la George Jetson. I'm hoping the quad-copter development will go a long way toward those ends.

[Swags 68]

We are taking the 77 on the long haul this year. Super excited because we have missed the last couple of tours. Looking forward to seeing everyone in June.

[corvettedad]

Drove out to the shop that is doing the body & paint on my '70 Nova SS to deliver the NOS front bumper today. I like the job that they did so well that I may try to get it done to make the tour next year. I bought the car complete in 1989 & it has been put away until a couple of years ago when I thought that I would make it an original patina type tour car but discovered that I could not stand putting a bunch of new parts onto a car that looked that bad. This is the shop that had previously put the quarters on my '57 & later put a complete trunk floor in the '67 Malibu that was our tour car for years. All of that 15+ years ago. So here is what is done so far; NOS quarters, fenders & doors metal patched & boy do you find a bunch of hidden things when you put a car on a rotisserie & completely strip it. I left them alone to do it & spent most of my time trying to find parts that I had put away for it over the years. And I had purchased a bunch of NOS parts for the car over the years. A couple that I knew that I had I never did find. But now that I have spent time running down & buying the same thing somewhere else, I'm sure that I will find them. After we got home we discovered that in going over it with a fine tooth comb, we had only managed to take one picture. Here it is;

That's almost the same color as my 68.

[67 Malibu]

That's almost the same color as my 68.

It was an original #28 code, Fathom Blue car. Since it was completely stripped, including the door jams, firewall, trunk & bottom, I considered changing colors. I went from Tuxedo Black to Cortez Silver to Butternut Yellow & even the Forrest Green that my '69 big block Nova had been. Then I started noticing some of the new blues out there that were closer to the original. Even considered a new Ford color but it turned out to be a tri-coat & about twice the cost of spraying any of the others. This is Kinetic Blue Metallic. A 2019/20 Chevy color that we saw on a new Colorado pickup. Very close to the original Fathom Blue but it has a bit of pearl & the metallic which gives it more pop than the Fathom has.

[a_d_a_m]

Walked past the wagon, which has been sitting around doing nothing for the past three weeks, and noticed a very faint gasoline smell...crawled under it and whaddya know, the tank is leaking! Fun! So I'll have to tackle that before I wrap it up for the winter. Come springtime, I'll have some small projects to deal with (or just leave them be and fix them during the trip)

[cstmwgn]

...or just leave them be and fix them during the trip ...

That would give you something to do on tour. You could run with Keith and have double the fun!

[Captain]

I'm very excited about running the Hot Rod Power Tour next June. These are all great cars so far. I also seen that there are 4 others from Wisconsin going,
Planning on getting to Norwalk, Ohio Saturday late afternoon. And taking the long way to Miss all but the bottom of Chicago. I-39 to Ottawa, Illinois, then I-80 over.
For me Google says its 560 miles, So I will be "Blasting Off" First Daylight Saturday Morning. Any others want to run in a pack, let me know, or even meet on the Indiana Turnpike Burns Harbor gate.
I'm going to run the "Indy Racer" (Titled as a 1906 Mitchell Roadster). Its a open cockpit car. Pray for good weather, this year Sucked Here, Rained 5 days out of a week.

Sorry, I will post a pix later of the car, all the pix on my laptop are to large in data to send. OR look in the Unoffical Power Tour Board posts.

[Captain]

See if this works, sent pix to my phone, send to here......

[silver_bullet]

straight 8?

[moparjim71]

We’ll be going through Wisconsin with a friend from Green Bay and picking up more friends along the way in Rockford. We’ll see how the timing works out to cruise out together.

[Captain]

1st,
Silver Bullet, It's a Ford Truck 300 cu in six, with a Cliffords Intake System, with Twin Weber 38's, a Upgraded Cardone Dual Advance Distributor (Anyone who wants to build a Ford inline Six, the original "Load A Matic" Distributor is MATCHED to the Autolite Single bbl carb as it has NO Centrifical Advance) and a Judson Brothers Mag.

[Captain]

2nd, Moparjim71,
Sure, we can Zero In as it comes closer. I also have some"Tentative" friends who say their coming. But you know how that goes, they'll Bail at the Last minute and I will already have a OVERPRICED room in Norwak,Ohio for Saturday Night.

[silver_bullet]

1st,
Silver Bullet, It's a Ford Truck 300 cu in six, with a Cliffords Intake System, with Twin Weber 38's, a Upgraded Cardone Dual Advance Distributor (Anyone who wants to build a Ford inline Six, the original "Load A Matic" Distributor is MATCHED to the Autolite Single bbl carb as it has NO Centrifical Advance) and a Judson Brothers Mag.

Sorry, Looking at it on my phone, it was difficult to make out how many plug wires there were...

[a_d_a_m]

Walked past the wagon, which has been sitting around doing nothing for the past three weeks, and noticed a very faint gasoline smell...crawled under it and whaddya know, the tank is leaking!

She's fixed. Having a friend with a lift helps.