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very nice! what are your plans for the paint? leave it alone? how's the interior?

Very interesting! Thanks Got pics of your system?

Great information, Thank You!

That's what I figured. The question was really more about the expected best case mpg of the 348 when paired with a powerglide, vs the same engine with either overdrive transmission I'm hoping someday to go on long cruises with this car, and i'm trying to establish if it's going to bankrupt me...

The 200 has a deeper overdrive (slightly) Why would the 700 get better mpg?

here's some of the shots I took on Saturday

We're getting close to the day when we can put the 58 out on the road and start taking it places. We might have to pull the powerglide because it's leaking pretty bad, and that has me wondering if maybe the leaking powerglide is a sign that it's time to look into other options, like an...

LET THERE BE LIGHT! We also got the brake lights, tail lights, interior lights, and reverse lights to work today. If we threw the front seat in, we could go cruising! The radiator fan used to scrape the shroud, so dad thought we would have a hard time putting it in, so until now we haven't...

Nice day today. My son and I went over there after church to put the hood on. We got it on without to many issues, and only one small adjustment to get it to look really nice! we could have put the headlight in today too, but we're missing those concave washers that go under the ornaments...

I was there with my son. Dang that place is big.... Saw a lot if cars, but I was a little dissapointed in the 58's. Everyone of them had restoration problems, but don't think any of them met reserve

I don't claim to know everything about the Z11, but that car looks like it was actually restored. I'm going to Mecum on at least one of those days. If it's still there, I'll take a bunch of pictures of it.

Got a BUNCH done today! there's an outside chance that on Monday we might get the bumper and hood on (but more likely just the bumper and get the hood READY to put on) this is a short video... Click it!

here's the picture of the repair. Turns out it might not have had anything to do with the powdercoating after all. The tube the comes up from the bucket was not making contact with each other at all. Can't imagine how or why, but there was next to no connection there. I cleaned off a little...

did some grounding work today After taking everything apart, Turned out not only did he powdercoat everything, but also laid down a thick coat of shellac inside the chrome housing for the turn signals, all in the name of weatherproofing and getting the car ready for the next 50 years. So I had...

went over there today and tested the current to each wire, and it seemed good. The issue probably is the ground, because he has almost everything powdercoated up there, and it's probably messing things up. Not sure though, because we can get one filament to light up,(the dim one) but not the...