FIRST DAY HOME FEB. 27, 1996
We bought this car from my wife's brother. at the time
it didn't run, stop or handle bumps do to the struts were
dead, the interior was trash to a point really just needed
cleaning.

 FIRST ENGINE          SWEETY WITH 1st ENGINE
On this glorious day of dropping the engine in to the car and I mean dropping
when putting the engine in we didn't have the legs extended out enough and the
engine dropped in and I mean it went right into place bolted and done.

The first engine was stock and straight out of my 1971 Chevy Cheyenne
pickup. Painted it black for less heat out put, at lease that's what I was
told, myself it hid a lot of imperfections. The first time we put the engine in
I had the alternator on the driver side of the car, meaning that I would have
to route the the wire along the tower strut, which I made out of a old bed
frame.

1986 CAMARO RADIATOR
This radiator is from a 1986 V8 Camaro the dimensions are 25 x 19.
The radiator is made of plastic and aluminum, it is light weight and does
an excellent job of cooling. Myself I decided to go with the Black Magic
Flex-a-Lite 150 electric fan, which the electric motor 14 amps and is
rated at 2400 cfm. I have note had any problems with this set up for cooling
and believe me I have ran this engine hard in over 100 degree weather , high
speeds and steep slops of canon and passes.

RADIATOR SUPPORT FRONT VIEW   RADIATOR SUPPORT TOP VIEW
The radiator support was made from 2" flat mild steel and 1"x1" angle.
Bent the flat with a vise and little bertha, welded the angles and bolted it to the
frame rails.

REPLACED CORNER PANEL (NOT ME) FIRST TIME STRIPING
LOTS OF BONDO
When we brought the car home the body looked in good shape. The floor
boards had minimal damage, but when I started to strip the cracking paint
I found that the driver corner panel was replaced the door had mass bondo,
both corners were damaged, hidden by bondo. For who ever that did this body
work the first time did a real nice job of hiding it.
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No. 2 ENGINE
My second engine came from 1974 Chev pickup. 4 bolt main, 194 heads
nothing special was done except tanking, seal, guides and a couple of
valves, don't have the money to go all out with aluminum heads, all in time.
I'm using a Edelbrock Performer manifold and Holley 80457.  The block is
bored 30 over using Crane Cam 272. Hooker block huggers 2001 headers.
The engine is not special or a lot of power, but you don't need much to
this car fly.

1st PROTO COUNSEL
Built by first console with 1/8" plywood and then cover it with some left over
counter top material. I'll be changing this.

PRIMER RED AND READY TO GO
This is the place that I tested the car to see what it could do, This place is
located by Mansfield Washington about 175 miles northeast of Seattle.

This is the day of finding out what it would do.
With this car you don't have to power brake to get the tires spining, even with
the tires smoking and spinning the car is still a wild ride. The car went straight
as an arrow shifting at 5000 rpm and braking the tires loose in all three gears,
I'm using a turbo 350 trany with a B&M  MegaShifter part no. 80690, myself
I like this shifter I was able to locate it in the counsel were it best fit me. The
dollar test works great in this car or what ever bill you can afford. What you do
is put the bill on the dash and tell the person in the passenger seat to try and
grab it, then at the same time punch the gas and watch the heads fly back.

As you can tell this Stage is Done!! V8 and runs Great

Zya8ter