Went to the car show. I removed the stock radio attena as well, found a rubber plug to fit in it for now till the body gets done.

On the way back from it, fifty miles from home the tail shaft housing let go. It appears the bolts were to short and not loctited in and rattled out. I was lucky enough to find one bolt long enough to thread in. It only had a slight drip and allowed me to do 40 mph, but it got me home. Guess I got some more things to fix now 

On the upside, the underside of the car is rust proofed quite well 

and it's just off warranty I think? 

No real update, put the car away a month ago.  Got new boots on the back, some 255/60/15 radial ta's.  Its much nicer on the highway now, and at 3000 RPM its doin just a tad over 60 mph. 

Found a photo editor on my comp so I did a couple pics up tonight.  I put the spear back on/all 4 bezels earlier this summer. And of course the confederate flag:

Just a random shot from early spring:

On another note, Im highly debating on getting a Tremec 5 speed for the car.  Ive pondered the idea of buying a new car with a manual, or for a big fraction of the cost put a manual in the Beaumont.  Its a toss up between that or paint and body.....guess Ive got the winter to decide my plans.

It doesnt really bother me and never has on its looks.  That being said, Im hoping this year Ill be able to have the body done as well.  But time will tell.

Jesse.

-- Edited by bowtieboy on Tuesday 15th of January 2013 04:51:39 PM

Finally its spring, got the car home into the garage.



Tore into the front end, it had worn out shocks, control arm bushings, but new Moog ball joints. So after some cleaning, painting, poly control arm bushings, new hard brake lines its lookin like this:

Just have a few minor things to take care of and it should be ready to test out.

Wow. Jesse!,,,,,,,,, your looking fine!  Crazy parts....had no idea you were going tremec.  Did you buy the z bar kit as well?

same set up Tyler has with his 67 lemans with the 455...... Your going to love it!

Update:

Got the trans hump done, flywheel, clutch, trans, mount/xmember in. Everything went easy till it was time for pedals.

Everything I had read, said just pop the old pedals out and slide the new in. That was not the case at all. The brake pedal was held in by a 3/8's bolt and bushing inside the pedal. The po had rigged a clutch pedal in there some how, Im not sure how it was done but it was done as there was evidence of the upper clutch rod rubbing the mount.

So we removed the steering column and went from there. I had to enlarge the holes for the new pedal set to slide through the mount. While I was at it, I welded some washers on both sides of the mount to help strengthin it up a bit. Also made a spacer out of some umhw to space the clutch pedal off the mount. Installed it for mock up, the upper clutch rod was totally wrong(chinese re pop). The bend was the wrong way, and it was 2 inches to short.(I believe it was the Z bar having the top mount welded in the wrong spot). The little rubber bumper for the clutch pedal was in the way of the pedal travel. So I cut that off, and also had to make clearance for the rod to be installed in the clutch pedal. We re bent the push rod in a couple places so it cleared the firewall nice, and I welded in an extenstion on the rod. Its not factory, but it should work just fine. I marked/welded the tab on for the rubber bumper.

From than on everything went together like it should, and I now have a 3 pedal car!!!
anywho, onto the pic's:

Removed 45 years of paint over the last couple days, ended up with this:

Picked up a SD hood for it as well, the old one was full of bondo/rust and bent in half.  Put new hood springs in while I was at it.

great job on the clutch pedal. What you needed was the GTO style clutch pedal that uses a bolt and not a pin like the chevelle one. I did the complete oposite to what you did with my 69. The pedal I bought was the GTO bolt in style and what I needed was the pin style like you bought. I had to modify my upper bracket to mount the bolt in style. If only we could have swaped pedals would have solved both or problems. Had to make washers to make the hole smaller for the 3/8 bolt.

Slapped a set of ten factory shafts/TA performance Girdle in the 8.2 on the weekend.  Figured It is a worthy upgrade with the added stress of the tremec.

Also not much on the body progress, some dents have been pulled, some fillers been layed down as well.