Recent content by jlmjr1986

I'll post more info as we get work done and new pics. When we finished with the cleanup last week, I left my kid with the question of do we patch it up and get it running or go all the way and completely restore it. About a week later he told me that he wanted to completely go through the car...

Here's some pics of the engine. The first is the original engine that had a broken off starter bolt in it and was smoking. I've still got it sitting on an engine stand in the shop. The second is what things looked like after realizing that the replacement 350 was seized. I started pulling...

And here's what sitting in the sun for ten years in the rain will do to a perfectly good car. And when I say rain, I mean about 80 inches a year. Water got into it from a couple of small pin holes around the front windshield and one of the rear side windows. I had an 86 El Camino that did...

We bought this car back in 1992 as a daily driver for my wife. It served us well for a long time, but had a started bolt break off in the block at about the same time the engine started smoking. So we let it sit up in the yard while I changed the engine. I got the engine swapped just before a...

Here' a picture of our car when we bought it for my wife in 1992. It was a good car for a long time, then had problems and it got parked in the back yard for years. Sitting up in the weather has not been good for it, but I've finally got the time, money, and a reason to work on it again. I'll...