Re: Progress on my woman's '65 Short/Fleet.
 

Sweet!

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Looks slick Joe, :metal:
I thought the weather in New Mexico was always good......
sounds like excuses to me:lol::lol:

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Lookin good Hoser.
Davids right. Isn't the weather there why they call it the land of enchantment?

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Thanks!

The weather hasn't been that great out here lately. It was horribly windy there for a while, we had a few late snow showers with few nice days in between. It's supposed to be nice here for a while now. Hopefully we can get some stuff done.

Re: Progress on my woman's '65 Short/Fleet.
 

Great work Joe. You and the wife make a great team. The covers and air cleaner look nice.

Re: Progress on my woman's '65 Short/Fleet.
 

that orange is nice on there...excellent work!

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Nice covers. I had a set of M/T covers on an old Firebird many many years ago. I did the same thing except with black.

It just gave it enough to make the covers pop. Just like yours does now. :metal:

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Thanks guys! I'll post more pics when these parts are on the engine...

Re: Progress on my woman's '65 Short/Fleet.
 

Friday, May 1st was a very good day. Me and my lady went up to Rowe to work on the '65. We started off by putting the new, pretty valve covers on the engine...:metal:

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Then I had to pull out all the plugs and squirt some WD-40 into the cylinders. This engine was rebuilt 2 years ago, and last time we tried to start it, it was too tight and the starter didn't crank it fast enough. So with the plugs off, I grabbed a battery and a few wires and cables and turned the engine a few revolutions with the starter to loosen it up. I reinstalled the plugs and used a little gas can to feed it... On the second crank, she fired right UP!!!! She's ALIVE!!!:metal: And the 350 sounds very healthy...It's gonna be a runner!!

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After hearing the engine run and playing with that for a little while, I remember I brought my steering wheel puller with me so I installed the deluxe steering wheels we purchased from LILRED66 a while back...:chevy:

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Then, I hooked up the '04 to the '72 chassis that the bed was sitting on and drug around to where the truck was...after making a few phone calls and found a friend that was willing to come up and give me a hand...Thanks Kris!!!

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Then after seeing the bed on the truck...we were even more excited! I had to mock up a fender to get a little preview. We are very satisfied with the stance/tire wheel size combo...:chevy::metal::chevy:

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Here's my babe under the truck, tightening the bed bolts... I'm a lucky guy, huh!!;)

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I'm not sure if this will work, but here's a short video clip of the engine running...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/11579456@N04/3501447332/

Re: Progress on my woman's '65 Short/Fleet.
 

Awesome progress! Truck is coming together quick now!

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Beautiful truck! Looks Awesome! Kuddos to La Mona Lisa, you guys Rock Joe!!! Killer!!!

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Nice work guys, it's looking good...

video link works but needs to be longer:lol:

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The weekend was very good to you. Great job.

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I'm so excited for you guys!!!
:cong:

so after you get it going are you guys gonna drive it and the yellow one out here? :devil:

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Hopefully. That would be fun! Maybe we will make it to your second meet. Are you guys going to have in annually?

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:metal::metal:Great news on the fire off - that mill couldn’t look better!:metal::metal:

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yeah that is the plan :metal:

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Cool! We're out for this year's meet, but hopefully we can be there next year with both trucks...:ito:

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Hells Yeah!!!!