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Alright, its time to get started on the car for Sick Summer 2024! This is my buddy Lous car, and has a great back story so lets start there. This is a 1968 Chevelle, and I think it was a 396 SS car. His Dad bought it in 1976 (see sticker) and raced it with a buddy for years. I guess the deal was it was his car, and he did all the chassis work. His buddy supplied the engine and drove it on track. They campaigned it for years, I think until the early 80's or so. I dont know a ton about it, but I hear it was a turbo BBC back then and went in the 7's. As the story goes he parked it when kids started being born. Eventually he had to sell the car I think in the 90s. I think his Dad had stayed in touch with the guy, and I know Lou did. Unfortunaetly Lou's Dad passed away, and not too long after the owner reached out to Lou to see if he wanted to buy the car back. He jumped on it, and bought it as a roller and its been sitting in his trailer just waiting ever since.
Once it became apparent the TA wasnt going to be ready in time for Sick Summer this year, I got after him to slap this thing together. It took some convincing but he came around. The general plan is I will work on the chassis stuff and he is taking care of getting the engine together. A few weeks ago I took my lil baby truck down to the hood to go pick it up.
We cleaned some stuff out of the trailer, and re-strapped it down.
Ready to hit the road.
The whole drive was fucking terrible. I think the triler was tonge heavy, and it was swaying me around all over the place. Then shortly into my 2 hour drive my truck started fucking up, which was the straw that broke the camels back on getting a new truck.
ANYWAY, I got it back home in one piece and just parked it in the driveway for a bit after a quick check.
I was terrible about getting any pictures of unloading it today. It was too damn cold. I should have taken a pic of it out in the street, but didnt have my phone on me. So you guys get the in the garage pics
15lbs of shit in a 5lb bag
I was pretty beat by the time I got eveything put away so that was all for today. I will go into the details on the next post with some more pics of the car.
Once it became apparent the TA wasnt going to be ready in time for Sick Summer this year, I got after him to slap this thing together. It took some convincing but he came around. The general plan is I will work on the chassis stuff and he is taking care of getting the engine together. A few weeks ago I took my lil baby truck down to the hood to go pick it up.
We cleaned some stuff out of the trailer, and re-strapped it down.
Ready to hit the road.
The whole drive was fucking terrible. I think the triler was tonge heavy, and it was swaying me around all over the place. Then shortly into my 2 hour drive my truck started fucking up, which was the straw that broke the camels back on getting a new truck.
ANYWAY, I got it back home in one piece and just parked it in the driveway for a bit after a quick check.
I was terrible about getting any pictures of unloading it today. It was too damn cold. I should have taken a pic of it out in the street, but didnt have my phone on me. So you guys get the in the garage pics
15lbs of shit in a 5lb bag
I was pretty beat by the time I got eveything put away so that was all for today. I will go into the details on the next post with some more pics of the car.
