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Well it looks like my original post got locked. https://gbodyforum.com/threads/revisiting-the-57-plymouth.66016/ I didn't give up on getting power steering in the 57 Plymouth, but between healing up after my hand surgery and putting in a new house the PS conversion kit sat in the trunk for...

I hate being bored. With the 37 Dodge PU on the road I decided to revisit the 57 Plymouth I built 10 years ago (with an eye on driving it back to Illinois for my 50th HS reunion in a couple of years). The car has a 1956 354 Hemi, Tri-Power, Overdrive 4 speed, and Chrysler 9 ¼ Rear end with...

Just in case you ever wondered what a 507 Cubic Inch Cadillac motor with a stuck mechanical advance can do to a starter when it kicks back......I have the answer! Starter 1 by M Patterson, on Flickr Other side starter 2 by M Patterson, on Flickr I dodged the bullet, the only damage was...

15 years after the 37 Dodge came to live with me it’s finally driving !!! As photobucket decided to hold my images hostage and they are gone from the original thread I was doing I figured I’d just do a brief recap. This is what I brought home in 2002. 37 Dodge PU by M Patterson, on Flickr...

I think I’m about finished with the little Ram 50 project. The last thing I wanted to add to it was a bed cover so my tool box. spare and jack don’t walk away. Nobody makes a hard cover for these little trucks anymore. I got ahold of Peragon and after talking to their tech department ordered...

Not a good week, the wife munched the front end on her 83 El Camino. Looks like I'll need a passenger side front fender, hood, front header panel, grill, and passenger headlight bezel (I already have a bumper). I just started looking but so far haven't had any luck finding luck finding usable...

Here’s the most recent project taking up shop space. It was my daughters’ first vehicle. When the Ex-boy friend knocked the rods out of it shortly before they broke up I picked up another car for her and took this in as partial trade on it. I never got around to selling it or parting it...

I hope this is the right place to put this. I figured some of you guys either have or someday hope to have a MIG/wire feed welder so I thought I post about the one I just pick up. Last week my Harbor Freight (Chinese - Chicago Electric) MIG welder gave up the ghost. This was my first MIG...

With Christmas coming up shortly I thought I’d post the most rewarding build I’ve ever done to give some of you dads/granddads out there some ideas. It was done primarily with my oldest grandson, but his brother and sister also got in on the act. I’ve been building cars for almost 50 years now...

I’ve seen several engine builds/upgrades on the site since I joined. A lot of guys are using tried and true hotrod parts and several are using updated technology to build some pretty impressive engines. Driven suggested that some of you might get a kick out of how we old guys used to build...

Here's hoping everyone has a great holiday season. Thought some of you might enjoy this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxDdz7fez18

When I built my El Camino a couple of years ago I bought a Craftec Tonneau Cover from an E bay seller. I use my El Camino as a truck, and most of the time the cover is stored, but I still use it frequently for cruise nights and especially on long trips. I took the El Camino on a 4000 mile...

I thought some of you might be interested in one of my ongoing non-car projects. It’s the office area/secondary work area in my shop. It all started a couple of years ago when I restored my Granddads old forge and kind of took on a life of it’s own after that. I grew up on a small family...

Hey if any of the local members are going to the swap meet at SIR on Saturday (tomorrow), swing by and say HI. I’ll be there in the burgundy El Camino with the Monte Carlo front end trying to get rid of some stuff that has been sitting around way too long.

The old El Camino got a chance to get out and stretch its legs a bit. I went back to Illinois to visit family, attend the local home town car show and bring back a new engine project. It’s just about 2000 miles each way so It looks like tomorrow is oil change day LOL.

It's been about 4 months since I started driving the El Camino and I am really happy with the way everything turned out. I just got back from a mini vacation to see family back in Ill. It was cold enough I had to run the heater most of the way up (I ran into SNOW in New Mexico) and hot enough...

Someone was asking about doing a clip and door swap on an El Camino this morning. I thought it would be interesting to start a thread showing some of Gen 5 El Camino front end swaps. I pulled some of the pictures from the customs gallery here and have some others I downloaded from other sites...

I’m getting ready to put some things together to take to the swap meet in a couple of weeks and one of the items is a 68-72 12 bolt. The biggest market for it will probably be the A Body crowd but in case I get some interest from a G Body owner I want to have the correct information to give...

I broke down my El Camino/Monte Carlo front clip/500 Caddy conversion at the request of a couple to make it a bit easier to read. The first 2 parts covered the body work portion and 9 in Ford rearend setup. viewtopic.php?f=41&t=25429 viewtopic.php?f=14&t=25389 This thread will cover...

To make it a little easier to follow, I've broken my build down to three parts. This thread, the body; The 500 Caddy Swap: viewtopic.php?f=13&t=25458 And the 9" Build: viewtopic.php?f=14&t=25389 This started when I bought an 83 El Camino to use as a parts truck on an 84 El Camino...