 - 2021 - Was going to
by a 55 from a friend, found this on FB that
night
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 - 2021 - Drove 3
hours to go look at it
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 - 2021
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 - 2021
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 - 2021
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 - 2021 - Took off
work the next week to buy it
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 - 2021 - Got
confronted by a Karen while trying to tie down
the car
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 - 2021 - In it's new
home
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 - 2021
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 - 2021 - New factory
style interior
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 - 2021 - 5.7 1999
Vortec
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 - 2021 - Previous
owner didn't keep it very clean
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 - 2021 - Lots of
dirty aluminum
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 - 2021 - As I got it
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 - 2021 - Polished
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 - 2021 - Dull
radiator overflow
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 - 2021 - Polished
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 - 2021 - Dirty plug
dividers
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 - 2021 - Polished
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 - 2021 - Valve cover
bolts
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 - 2021 - Heater hose
clamps
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 - 2021 - Dull valve
cover
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 - 2021 - Top Polished
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 - 2021 - All polished
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 - 2021 - Dirty motor
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 - 2021 - Polished
motor
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 - 2021 - New tail
light lenses (old ones were broke)
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 - 2021 - New vs old
reverse light lense
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 - 2021 - New arm
rests
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 - 2021 - New sill
plates
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 - 2021 - New vs old
kick panels
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 - 2021 -Dented
passenger door trim (I ordered a new one)
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 - 2021 - New vs old
window regulators
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 - 2021 - Somebody
loved their Turtle Wax (this is the underside of
the antenna cap)
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 - 2021 - Underhood
brace was missing
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 - 2021 - On my
brothers lift to swap out fuel tank and check out
the suspension (he says FU!)
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 - 2021
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 - 2021
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 - 2021 - New vs old
filler neck
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 - 2021 - Old dented
tank
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 - 2021 - New tank
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 - 2021 - First time
at work
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 - 2021 - Back home
next to the SS
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 - 2021 - Radiator
went out, started leaking and had to buy a new
one
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 - 2021 - Painted over
the door catches
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 - 2021 - Removed,
stripped and polished
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 - 2021 - Interior
door trim screws, suppose to be all the same,
none of them match
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 - 2022 - Shifter
plate for a turbo 350, car has 700R4
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 - 2022 - New
- plate with correct
shift pattern
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 - 2022 - Speedometer
apart to replace plate, didnt notice the old was
was broken
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 - 2022 - New vs old
trunk alignment plate
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 - 2022 - Trunk latch
cover was missing
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 - 2022 - Installed
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 - 2022 - New truck
latch, I boke the old one cleaning it
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 - 2022 - New tail fin
stainless
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 - 2022 - New quarter
window frames, original ones were pitted
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 - 2022 - Installing
the old glass
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 - 2022 - In the car
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 - 2022 - New
stainless side trim,old ones were dinged up
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 - 2022 - Old trim off
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 - 2022
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 - 2022 - Top piece on
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 - 2022 - Bottom piece
on
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 - 2022 - Starting
passenger side
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 - 2022 - Felt the car
needed the rocker trim
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 - 2022 - Had to drill
holes for the clips, kind of scary
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 - 2022 - Clips
mounted
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 - 2022 - Rocker trim
on
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 - 2022 - Reat corner
stainless dented
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 - 2022 - Hammered it
out and repolished
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 - 2022 - Took it for
a few shots
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 - 2022 - At the
museum
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 - 2022 - At the
Middle School
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 - 2022
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 - 2023 - Trunk mat
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 - 2023 - In the car
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 - 2023 - New vs old
grille emblem
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 - 2023 - Didn't
intall very well.
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 - 2023 - Fitech EFI
controller
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 - 2023 - EFI went out
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 - 2023 - Getting
ready to send to FiTech to be fixed
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 - 2023 - Repainted
the manifold while I was waiting for the EFI to
come back
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 - 2023 - New vs old
trunk emblem
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 - 2023 - Old emblem
was broke
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 - 2023 - New vs old
hood emblem
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 - 2023 - Chevrolet
dirt under old emblem
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 - 2023 - Cleaned and
waxed
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 - 2023 - New emblem
on
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 - 2023 - Round 2 with
the grille emblem (got the backing plate this
time)
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 - 2023 - Installed
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 - 2023 - Old vs new
trunk battery mount
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 - 2023 - Old bracket
was welded angle iron and a rubber strap
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 - 2023 - Mounting the
billet hold down
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 - 2023 - Installed
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 - 2023 - Reat deck
lid had cheap Audivox 6x9 speakers mounted under
the deck lid
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 - 2023 -Still had the
factory holes
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 - 2023 - Cutting the
holes for the deck lid cover
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 - 2023
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 - 2023 - One hole cut
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 - 2023 - Test fit
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 - 2023 - Both holes
cut
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 - 2023 - Both
speakers installed
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 - 2023 - Whoever
painted the car hit the trim a lot with the
sander
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 - 2023 - Hard to tell
but sanded out the scratches, hammered out the
dings and reapolished
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 - 2023 - Getting on
the lift to remove, sand blast and paint the
rusty headers
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 - 2023 - Ranchero
back in garage till ready to reistall headers
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 - 2023 - Fairly rusty
headers
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 - 2023
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 - 2023 - High temp
primed
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 - 2023 - High temp
painted aluminum
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 - 2023 - Back on car,
while trying to burn in the paint, the paint
popped off like popcorn
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 - 2023 - While on the
lift, I noticed a string sticking out of the
passenger side of the frame, I pulled the string
to see this
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 - 2023 - This is what
came out of that frame rail, some mouse had a big
nest.
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 - 2024 - Wanting to
get some billet wheels to replace the Cragars, so
I put on my S10 billets to check the backspaceing
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 - 2024 - Random front
shot
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 - 2024 - Starting to
mock up a center console and to mount the EFI
controller
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 - 2024 - First piece
that mounts under the gauges
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 - 2024 -
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 - 2024 - Had to make
it slide on itsself so the bench seat can move
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 - 2024 - Slid forward
and deciding where to put the cup holders
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 - 2024 - Cup holders
mounted
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 - 2024 - Making mount
for EFI controller
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 - 2024 - Bent into
shape and welded
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 - 2024 - Controller
in place, it can come out with the cord so you
can use it from the drivers seat
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 - 2024 - Bought these
when I got the side trim but the shape didnt
match so I reused the original ones on the car,
these will be sacrificed for the console
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 - 2024 - Front
upholstered, storage hole cut and side trim cut
to fit
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 - 2024 - Wanted to
match the trim on the outside of the car, so I
got sheets of stainlees
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 - 2024 - Sand blasted
and tape removed
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 - 2024 - Matches
pretty close
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 - 2024 - Cut to fit
the side of the console
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 - 2024 - Back half
upholstered
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 - 2024 - Side trim
installed
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 - 2024 - Finished
console except the trim for the storage hole
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 - 2024 -
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 - 2024 - Hole trim
installed
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 - 2024 - New 18"
Nitto tires
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 - 2024
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 - 2024 - Back space
tool to figure out rims
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 - 2024
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 - 2024 - 18"
Boyd Coddingtom wheels with titanium colored
spokes
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 - 2024 - Test fit and
had to have the centers machined out
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 - 2024 - Back wheels
meed a little machining also (shout out to Worley's
Welding)
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 - 2024 - Protective
plastic removed
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 - 2024 - Needed
longer and bigger studs, some of the old ones
were stripping out anyway
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 - 2024 - Mounted and
balanced
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 - 2024 - Cragars
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 - 2024 - Boyds
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 - 2024
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 - 2024
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 - 2024 - Back to the
Middle School for more pics
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 - 2024
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 - 2024 - Outside my
garage
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 - 2024
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 - 2024 - Golf course
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 - 2024
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 - 2024
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 - 2025 - New ceramic
coated headers
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 - 2025 - Old vs new
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 - 2025 - At the
exhaust shop as the flanges didnt qutte line up
now
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 - 2025 - Needs to be
lower in the back
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 - 2025 - 1"
blocks installed
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 - 2025 - Napa car
show I entered
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 - 2025 - Show pics
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 - 2025
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 - 2025
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 - 2025 - Made the
front page of the paper
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 - 2025 - Taking it
out to paint the El Camino
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 - 2025
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 - 2025
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 - 2025
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