At his apartment storage / garage
All loaded up for the trip to it's new home
This is the only picture I have of it so far at my house
The drive down was not bad, used about $40 in gas to pick up the trailer and get down there. The bad part about the drive down is that the shocks on my dad's truck are SHOT and it was actually quite scary to drive it as some of the roads were pretty bumpy and the truck was all over the road because the tires were constantly losing contact with the road... yea, dangerous :shock:
Luckily though, with the added weight of the car on the trailer, the ride home was MUCH smoother. Of course though, we did get stuck in rush hour traffic in Grand Rapids, took about 20 minutes to go one mile :evil: I thought the drive home would be MUCH worse on gas going 70 with the overdrive off, but to my surprise I think we
might have used $10 more, if that. I do have one thing to say about my dad's truck though, that 318 is a completely gutless wonder. It could hardly move out of it's own way :lol:
Before we got home, we also stopped at the auto parts store that I always go to and picked up some shocks for my dad's truck that I will be putting on in the next couple days. It needs it :lol: While we were at the parts store, the guys there went out to check it out, I tried to fire it up for them, but no go :angry7: After a quick diagnosis, found the accelerator pump is bad on the Edelbrock carb. Went in and bought a can of starting fluid, gave it a quick shot and it fired right up. Now I know why he was outside getting it started before I got there... Oh well, it just so happen to have a good accelerator pump for that carb that will likely go on
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I still can't quite get my camera to get a good picture of the paint, however, the first pic of it on the trailer is about the best one so far.
It is already plated and insured, drove it to the gas station yesterday then to the shop to get the rust fixed. That will be done next week, then the interior work will hopefully start, that will likely be a work in progress though as I will be driving it as soon as the salt is cleared from the roads. There really isn't much salt right now, but still more then I want to daily drive on.
I tell you though, even though it was just about a 20 mile drive, I am absolutely crazy for this car! While at the gas station, there was about three people walking in that about broke their necks looking at it as they walked by, even had a guy stop me on my way out and chatted for about 15 minutes, finally told him I had to go to work! Yup, this car has "it" 8)
When the weather gets nice, it will get a two stage buff with Menzerna polishes and then probably some Pinnacle Souveran wax, it is going to look incredible, trust me.
