Rust Bucket Deployment

[WapitiTalk1]

Wait... what?  Two nice days coming up in a row.  Time for big red to stretch her spring legs  .  She only goes out with dry roads and clear skies.  The old gal will be gracing JBLM with here shiny self tomorrow. Ahh, spring is in the air which means September is right around the corner! 

[wadu1]

"O" no I see a spot of dust in one of the reflections Nice ride, I wish I still had my 55 C-10.

[Seahawk12]

What a tease!! 
The little she shows sure looks pretty.

[Elknut1]

Geez Rory, what a sweet ride! What's under the hood spinning the wheels?

  ElkNut1

[BULLBLASTER]

Nice bucket of bolts you got there! 
  looks good! Have fun! I take my 72 out on nicer days also!

[Shawn Ryan]

A sound bite would be great. And stop with the strip tease and let us see the whole thing.

[pd]

RJ, I hate to say this to you, but if you move back to God's Country you won't have smooth asphalt anywhere to display this queen.  You have decisions to make, or at least compromises to consider.  You know that, don't you?

[WapitiTalk1]

Begeezus, I'm trying to watch the Mariners game here (and will them to a win)... you bunch of damn hounds  .  OK, red is a 68, the first year of the rounded Chevelle body style.  Got her about 3 years ago as a true rust bucket/project car.  Only thing that was pretty much done was the engine.. PO was building her as a street racer.  Although logoed as a SS 396 in and out, something much more potent lurks under that pretty hood.  Let's just say when the fart exhaust Subaru's pull up beside me and hear the cam chugging thru the headers and 3" exhaust, they slink away like a whipped coyote pup.  Pretty much a ground up resto.. (had to sell my fishing boat to finance the project..  ..).  Here's a few more pics.  Go Mariners!



       

[WapitiTalk1]

RJ, I hate to say this to you, but if you move back to God's Country you won't have smooth asphalt anywhere to display this queen.  You have decisions to make, or at least compromises to consider.  You know that, don't you?

No trout about that....

[coachcw]

Crate 445 hp 454 ? Sweet ride and cool to 400 floor shift.

[ridgefire]

That thing is sweet

[TommyH]

Very nice! Good work!

[Woodchuck]

Very nice ride. 

[Encore 280]

The way the M's are playing you might as well take the ol gal for a ride and forget about the Mariners, waste of time.

[Seahawk12]

That's a ride to be proud of. She's beautiful.

[b23]

She's a looker, that's for sure and seeing that engine bay stuffed full of big block, for me, puts the icing on the cake. 

I know you can build HUGE HP with small blocks, especially some of the big cubic inch SB motors but for me, they just don't look right sitting under the hood of those 68-72's. 

[Fl0und3rz]

Nice ride.  I love the big blocks.

[Todd_ID]

Any pics with an elk on the hood/trunk?   

[724wd]

My company is doing this again...

http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php?topic=147702.0

[WapitiTalk1]

Any pics with an elk on the hood/trunk?   

Not yet   

[WapitiTalk1]

Crate 445 hp 454 ? Sweet ride and cool to 400 floor shift.

Coach, it's a 1973 454.  Ya, it had a B&M ratchet shifter in it and wifey kept saying she wanted to drive it so I put the resto horseshoe shifter in... she still can't drive it 

[Shawn Ryan]

Nice. Thanks for the pics. We still need to hear the thunder.

So do you need to change your handle from Phantom16 to 68Chevelle?

[runamuk]

oooohhhhh aaahhhhhh so pretty....now can you make it purr please pretty pretty please ... I need video (yes I like auto porn do not judge me)

[WapitiTalk1]

I'll try to get a noise clip up for you car hounds later. Gotta get the  property chores done first.

[jackelope]

That really nice car got a lot nicer when you popped the hood, that's for sure.

Nice ride.

[Netminder01]

WOW. Gorgeous car!!

Have you posted the basic specs & build background on a previous thread? If not, would love to know on this thread or via PM.

[WapitiTalk1]

Here's your sound bite guys.  Since the engine was drowning me out (I'm pretty sure I'd make a crappy movie producer), here's the skinny on the old red car. Red was born a plain old Malibu (shhh, don't tell anybody).  Who knows where she's been and what she's seen but she fell into my lap three years ago.  I was actually looking for a 70 Challenger like my older brother had when he got out of the Army in 78 but that was not in the cards.  Wifey found this old thing on line one night and we went and bought her the next day.  She was in bad, bad shape (rust bucket as it were) except for the engine the PO was almost done building.  After almost 6 months with my body/paint guy, she came out beautifull.  Oh, specs.... 454 bored .30 over (68's did not come with 454s), Edelbrock semi-high rise manifold, Holly 750 double squirter, HEI ignition, Crane cam/rockers, Hedman headers, rewired from nose to tail, 350 TH tranny shift kitted, Yukon locker in the rear end with freeway friendly gearing, and some add ons to try to keep her running cool (4 core radiator, HO waterpump).  Nope she's not a racer but will still put a kink in your neck going thru her three hard gears. I've kept the SS 396 logo'ing in and out just because (grin).  Thanks for looking and your interest in my old red gal... she's my fourth favorite chick in the world. 

 

[runamuk]

OHHHHHH thank you....

sitting in corner smiling.  I may not be getting to the shows this summer because of moving otherwise I would remember that sign.

Some of the only photography I mess with that isn't rated right off huntwa is of cars at the car shows.  Had to look real quick and see if that was the red chevelle I was stalking last year its not, lol.  But it could be 

[Shawn Ryan]

Thank you.  I love that sound.