F-Body Europe

New parts: Be Cool aluminum radiator, Performer RPM intake, Edelbrock 600 carb with elec choke, Mallory HEI with MSD wires, and a few other goodies like the chrome front bumper. Top half is just about done, just gotta finish the lower half in the same color as the front. I think that it'll have flames separating the two colors. Grill, headlight bezels and grill upper support was sandblasted and powder coated in Gieb. ($100 and they added a clear coat, they did a great job) Yup, that's a 12 bolt under there. Too bad it's an open diff with 2.73s. Blue dot tailights on either side of the handmade roll pan. Yes, I made a hitch for this truck. It'll be pulling trailers before riding them.

Sure will be a beauty when you're through! Looking good already!

Thanx!
BTW, is there a way to avoid having to scroll left to right to see the whole pic? (I understand about the up and down and if the pic is huge) I think that there's a sig somewhere that's like that as well.

actually, it's a feature I added to the board some time back ... When people posted large pics, or long links, the text of all posts in the thread would wrap outside the display area, making it hard to read ... if you have a larger display, it won't display the horizontal scroll bar, it adjusts to the window size ... (my 1024 width screen shows it, but on your pics, hardly any scrolling is necessary)

So you want about $10,000 for it? That thing is awesome, man!

this would mine if I wasn't stupid



Hopefully i can talk my dad into letting me have it when i go back to the states

and it is already paninted just dirty
it is candy apple red
it needs dropped and the interior and the bed and then it would be completed.

I think I'm in the wrong country ... all this stupid country seems to have (and want) for cars are Golfs, Opels and the likes ... :yuck:

Talking about Opel - did anybody see the new Opel adds on TV for their new cars? If I'm not mistaking, they have an early second gen Firebird right at the beginning ... though I doubt he could catch up with it with one of the cars he stopps

Very very nice 57 !!!

Hope you get it. Nice truck and yes, they do sit up kinda high! Yours seems to be higher, but that could be because my front springs are worn out. No more arch at all. IFS coming soon...
Garry, I wouldn't mind owning an old Diplomat. 327 Corvette, TH400...that would make one great sleeper!

yea it is almost done. just little crap. we have already done all the the big stuff. relocated gas tank. removed door handles. roll pan with billet tail lights. tailgate cover with a embossed bowtie on it. put a newer 12 bolt in it with a detroit locker. frame off resto it just looks bad because it has been sitting in the same place for alteast 6 years. but hey if I hadn't been a stupid teenager I wouldn't be into f-bodys like I am now. I will look to see if i have any more pics but i don't think i do cause a gave up my old computer before i was done with it.

and on the height the trail ta tires that it's sitting on don't help much.

SSZ28,
Comin along NICELY!!!! Can't wait to see it when it's finished!!!!!!

Neither can I! Should have been finished several years ago...

How does it run? I'd just leave it primer if it was mine- at least until I got it back to the 'States!

Bottom half will be in primer and possibly some clear to seal it for the boat ride back. Truck ran great before the mods, just gotta get the timing and the carb set up right. PITA without a timing light and vacuum gauges.
Hard to believe that I have just about every tool but the important ones.

Isn't that Appendix B or C to Murphy's law or something?

Actually, the big problem is that I can't leave things alone. Even if there is nothing wrong, I want more out of it. Now I'm having a hard time finding the time to "fix" my upgrade.
BTW, all of this madness started when I was about 12 and tried to modify our 8hp riding mower. I also used one to many moth balls in the gas tank. (Naptha is like a form of nitro, works better in two-stroke dirt bikes than the mower. At least that's what I was told back then...) Mower ran like a raped ape, but wouldn't run after I shut it down. Pistons weren't to happy and melted a bit. Dad was not amused...

It's alive again!!! Finally had time to go play under the hood. Looking for vacuum leaks, playing with the distributor and finally I noticed what was wrong. I had a couple of plug wires crossed. Damn thing still ran OK, idled great and everything. Just ran like dookie at higher revs. Now the truck really wants to scream. It did one hell of a smokey in front of the house. The cloud was still present after parking the truck a few minutes later. Just got to fine tune it at the craft shop to ensure that I'm getting better than 2 mpg or that I'm not running so lean that it melts the pistons. This way I can play with this Cobra that's running around post. There's also this Mach 1 (new, not the cool old skool) that won't play with the SS. (chicken, or he knows better...) Wonder if I can get him to lose-I mean play with the truck?
The bottom half is now dark gray primer with a clear coat. Still needs body work, but I wanted to "seal" it up before it goes on a boat for the long journey back home. It looks a LOT better than the 13 different shades of primer before...

That primer does a good job hiding the imperfections! Yep, it's "shiny" due to the clear coat. Had to seal it up before the long boat ride. Just gotta clean it up to get it ready to go this week.

I love the way 57's look but I might be alittle biased.
good luck with it on the boat and treat her right when you get her home.