March 09, 2003 : As of this date, all new entries will be placed in the database instead. Its much easier to update this way, at least for me.
March 08, 2003 : Ok, its been a while, but we are back to work. Over the course of the last 7 days, we have mounted the steering column in a temporary position, and cut/connected/configured all the Borgensen universals and steering shafts. The overall look came out quite good, I think, since we ran it under the frames motor mount. You can see the spherical rod end fits quite nicely under that frame mount, and actually does a good job. We may have to get a longer one since the threads dont come out too much above the top, but that will surely happen later. It was a tight fit around the headers though, I can tell you that - it took a bit of patience to find a way to get it just right. We have also finally got the proper end caps on our driveshaft/rear end universal so the driveshaft is now in the car as well. Not a ton of work, but progress none-the-less.
March 30, 2002 : Starting today, there is a new layout to this site, one which is much more common for me - like my pluzzi.com and my work websites, and all the others that I have published over the years. Its design is old and traditional, but effective. So with that said, now to the car's progress ....
The new Denny's driveshaft arrived today, and we tried to put it in, but they sent the wrong endcaps and U-joint bolts. Instead of 1-1/16" they are 1-1/8" and that just wont do at all. So we couldnt do much today.
March 23, 2002 : We put the Chevy up on the lift today - first car up on the DRP RodShop lift. Wow that was a big day for us. We were able to see a car from the underside for the first time today. Like this new view of the Currie rear end. So as we lifted it up, a little higher, and then up up all the way up, I will confess to being a bit nervous. But once we were past that, we installed the new Aldan front coil overs today - here is a low and a high shot of them. They are quite nice really. I think I like them better than the Carrera "coil-overs" that we installed in the Ford, because the Aldans are fully self contained. By this I mean that I can take the whole coil-over out of the Chevy fully intact. In the Ford, the spring uses the coil-over for its bottom mount point, but the top mount point is the original spring cage from the original coil spring. Therefore that coil-over always comes out in two pieces. We also cut off the strut rods (aka reaction rods) mouting flanges and ground the frame back down, because we are going to use Heidts tubular lower control arms.
September 24, 2001 : This is the story of the new 1934 Chevy that we won from Outlaw at the North Jersey Street Rodders Association event on Fathers Day this year (2001). What a sweet deal that was ...... And as promised, a new clickable index of all Chevy pictures, posted on September 24, 2001. Repeating the message from above, I have noticed that Microsofts Internet Explorer consumes all system memory to load this page, but Netscape (any version) works better. It is recommended to use Netscape to view this page if you have it.
Not to get too much into this one yet, because it is so early in the story, but I will show what we have. We do have many extra parts from the first build of the Ford, so this one should go quicker. So without further ado, here are the first, second and third pictures of its earliest shots. Notice the similar wheels in that first shot? Like I said, we have many extras - motors, trans's, rear ends, from tubular arms, wheels, tires, seats - you name it !!!
Not much yet, but here is an early shot of the dirty "old" LT1 that will be going into this one. And much like the Ford, we just love the rear, so here are two shots of the rear of the Chevy - first from under and second from the back.