..had some time on my way to a show this morning to pull over real quick. First time I think i've taken photos of this thing in 4+ years. Proud to say I put 1,000 miles on this thing in October alone!

 

Love it!

 

Nice, glad to see it moved with you. Brings back memories of my CL and joining car forums because you had posted it up with your CL before you had it resprayed (the CL that is). Any interior shots?

Oh, glad to see the Cali plates, looks like a west coast car.

 

Awesome. Thanks for sharing those pics. I have a soft spot for old hot rods.

 

Delicious!

 

wow. beautiful.

 

Awesome! I would love to see that thing in person.

 

Id love an older 50's or 60's project car

 

Sweet! Love the paint

 

Love it.

 

What's in it?

 

Flawless.

 

The color pics are better than the desaturated versions...you have a paint job to show off!


PS: Its never been my thing...but I could see some awesome pinstriping really setting off that back tailgate!

 

fire.

 

Love that thing!

Engine shots?

 

here are two pics I have of the car when we first got it

 

Here's an old photo, unfortunately these valve covers "disappeared" on my when I had a shop doing some engine work. they "don't know" where they went. Real big bummer. They then put on some ugly assed etched flamed valve covers and air cleaner. Luckily they did find this original air cleaner.

I just put new valve covers on the car last week actually, not sure I like them though.

Here is what I wish it still looked like:




I just put these on it, not sure i'm sold on them, but the orange pulls out the color of the flames:

 

Those are incredible shots man. I love it. Thanks for sharing.

 

Beautiful! Nice work.

 

+1!

Is the main paint color black or plum? I don't know if it's a special paint you have applied that changes color or you fiddling around with the colors on photoshop...

I know I've already said it, but you got yourself something real sweet there!

 

Gorgeous! Great shots, too.

 

Color shifts, base coast is a plum, top coat is a blue/purple that's hard to photo.

For example, when looking from the back the plum really comes out, this is pretty much all natural



this shows the blue that's hard to get to come out in a photo








it's a real hard car to get the various colors to come out in photos and even in person. Most people think it's black from a distance and walk up to it and go, oh it's purple, no it's blue...wait....


only photos 2 and 6 were really doctored away from the natural color

 

So I've been thinking about new wheels for years, when we bought these 17's were considered big, 18's were about the biggest anyone was doing.

I really want to do an 18" up front and a 20" in the rear. Here are what i've been looking at:

these in either polished or like this (I kind of like them like this)

 

I dont know. I like the current wheels. They fit well.

If you do it though...I like option 2. I see them on some Challengers.

 

i like them too, just want something much bigger to fill up that rear wheel space

 

Being a disc jockey, I looked at your photo's hearing The Eagles "My Old '55" in the background.

 

You should have made them buy you a new set. You entrusted them with your truck, they are responsible for it.

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/of...make/chevrolet

Pricey but they are nice.

 

Edelbrock also has a similar design.

http://www.edelbrock.com/automotive_..._classic.shtml

I found this other one at Summit:

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/trd-6603/media/images

 

Long story, basically the shop went out of business while the truck was still there. Second time something like that had happened with us. One shop caught on fire (insurance scam)...said our truck was in there, turned out we found out a few months later our truck was at his house....it was one of our doner cars that had burned up.

 

Damn, you've had some bad luck when it comes to shops.

As for wheels, I like the current set up, but of the two new ones, I prefer the second one.

 

Jelly.

 

Maybe try to find a set of your current wheels in the sizes that you want?

Otherwise I agree, second looks best to me.

 

who is that

 

Scott would you ever considering bringing this to the Cars and Coffee in Cary on the first Saturday of each month?

 

wheels are 15 years old, was actually the last set made

 

usually there every month

 

makes me want to actually go through with a rod project

 

alright, new wheels may come sooner then I expected. My current wheels are a two piece and are seriously out of whack (boyd made shitty wheels back in the day). The vibration drives me nuts and I'll probably be doing new wheels shortly or start of the year.

Here is what I think i've narrowed it down to. Will be doing an 18x8.5 up front and either an 18x10 or 20x10 in the rear

 

Btw...https://acurazine.com/forums/southeast-318/cary-nc-december-1st-late-fall-early-winter-meet-873764/

 

sweet, I'll see what I can do, have a big toys 4 tots event that day.