What did you do to your non g-body project today [2025 edition]

Picked up an old set of US mags slots of the facespace

15x7 and 15x10
5*4.75 non unilug

I can't use them as both my cars have ls1 front calipers and the rears have 3" of back space so unless I want to go full 1977 and fiberglass flare my quarters or build a custom width rear I can't fit them.

But non unilug 15" slots NEVER come up for sale around here and for $100 for the set, I can get past no lugs or center caps 😉

81cutlass said:

Picked up an old set of US mags slots of the facespace

15x7 and 15x10
5*4.75 non unilug

I can't use them as both my cars have ls1 front calipers and the rears have 3" of back space so unless I want to go full 1977 and fiberglass flare my quarters or build a custom width rear I can't fit them.

But non unilug 15" slots NEVER come up for sale around here and for $100 for the set, I can get past no lugs or center caps 😉

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I love aluminum slots!

I have two 14's 5 x 4.75 if anyone needs... There is a 15" set of 4 in Phoenix, $200. If some one needs them I can pickup... Pay me later...

Yes I think they are unilug. I'll find the ad again but IIRC... 5x4.5 & 5x4.75 is the spec.

Current available Tucson Craig List

People still use CL?

I dig CL but its just sketchy part of town trans rebuild shops advertising bottom dollar rebuilds and boomers with used oily & corroded SBC valvecovers that they expect to get 95% new price for.


If I had a dollar every time I saw a set of unilug or 14" slots I'd be a thousandaire
If I had a dollar every time I saw a set of 5x4.75 15" slots for reasonable price I'd have exactly the 3 pairs I have (I buy them all when they are affordable)

Down pour last night and this morning, so mud. Got hood of Vette in primer.

Shovelled snow and then went out to the shop to sand down some filler work that I had done on a saddle bag lid a few days ago. Brought out a tool normally used to check curvature and shape as they evolve during fabrication from a pattern and found that I had actually managed to match the shape of the lid to another that I had on hand.

This was sort of remarkable in that the lid on which I was working had been blown off its body on the perimeter highway and had been badly smashed by its contact with the asphalt at speed. So bad in fact that a lot of the front facing had to be recreated from glass matt and resin as what used to be there had pretty much exploded into shrapnel and dust on contact. About the same as what happens to a Corvette when it gets shmucked by a semi rig. The original reconstruction had been gathering dust for as much as a decade when I dug it out as something to fiddle with during this winter, and I knew that it would require some further modifications to be able to properly drop into place on the rim of the bag body I was using for fitting.

Some people purely hate sanding, particularly 'glass and bondo, but it can be mentally soothing once you get into a rhythm; takes your mind off the mundane and the banal and lets you concentrate on generating dust and achieving that perfect shape or curve.


Nick

Just bought a 2025 Renegade.