1973 Chevrolet Chevelle

Bought for $800 with a motor in cardiac arrest. It was totally frozen with a spun main bearing. Someone ran the motor with no oil and water. The transmission got so hot that the oil in it was discolored. It has 13,608.45 original miles...it was really miss treated for that many miles! The car was lowered to about three inches off the ground and the bottom was scraped up and had some descent holes and dings in it... The car was lowered by someone taking something very hot such as a torch and heating the springs up really hot so they collapse.

Its been polished, ported, balanced, blue printed, decked, align honed/bored, relieved, hypertec coated pistons, 4 bolt main, forged steel crank, TH-350 (B & M Transkit), roller rockers, 6 angle valve job, 1:6 ratio, comp. cam, Auburn high performance limited slip differential, 3:42's, boxed in upper trailing arms, Lakewood ladder bars, 3-5" raise over stock in back, front and rear sway bar, MSD ignition, Holley 650 double pumper, performer RPM manifold, Hooker headers, 8" harmonic balancer, windage tray, copper gaskets, high volume water pump, high volume oil pump, 2 stage glass packs, dual exhaust, covered hoses, very little rust almost everything's painted and a lot more. Several new parts! I personally polished the transmission, manifold, alternator and a collector tube for the air conditioning.

I am also doing a little Chevelle model that I picked up for 25 dollars at a local auto parts store...that's right a auto parts store. Who would think you would find a Model Chevelle at a auto parts store. I could not find any Chevelle's of my year at any Hobby store and they even looked in their catalogs and could not find any Chevelle around my year. It is not exactly the same as my year Chevelle but a little Bondo can work wonders! I think I can get it too look 95 or so percent like my Chevelle.

So I picked this as my senior project in school since I think it would be a great wide learning experience. I am not totally finished with it but it will be looking like the greatest street/hot rod around when I get done...=)

I picked some pictures out that I took. I have not finished it so there will be more to come! I hope you enjoy them for now...:o) Best viewed at 800x600 and these images are scanned for nice quality. These are thumbnails (click on them to see a bigger view).