Originally Posted by Greg Reimer 7376
Having built five Chevelles in the last 22 years, I know how much fun this has been for you.I can't seem to stay away from car projects even now. Isn't it rewarding to see it come together in the later stages like that? The really fun thing happens the first time you take it out and race it. I've followed your project since your first post, and you've made really excellent progress on it.
I just got hold of a '71 Monte Carlo, red with black vinyl top,black interior, and am doing it. It was a car I got in 1983 with a wrecked front end. Frame was OK,engine and trans were good, so I hit the self serve auto parts places and got a hood,a core support,a grille, a new radiator, a front bumper, and reconstructed it. It had been hit in the rear once before, it had a rechromed bumper and a different deck lid replaced previously,and about two weeks after we started driving it, my wife got hit at the bottom of a freeway offramp.New bumper, a tail panel, deck lid, and a bunch of aggravation. CHP wouldn't take a report because it happened on the offramp,not the actual freeway, city police wouldn't make a report because it wasn't on a city street,but on an offramp.We fixed it ourselves and had my painter friend paint it to match.The car got away from me, we made it into a bracket car, it sat about 20 years in a storage building, I just got it in May and went to work on it. It's going in for paint as soon as I fix the rust in the front fenders. It will be cranberry red,black top and interior,new bumpers and trim, can't wait to finish it and run it again.
Again,great Chevelle, fun project, this motivates the rest of us.
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