My '69 Chevelle/Winston cup car
 

had this car in the mid 80s.....LOVED IT!.....had cut springs (no such thing as drop spindles in those days) I had the bodyshop cut out and move the fenderlips higher like a stock car....had 275/50/15 T/As on all corners....built 350 4 gear.....slid off the road in a freak Sept snowstorm and basically totalled the car.....always said I wanted to do it again

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last year I drove all the way to Mooresville NC and picked up this ex Cup/Arca '99 Monte carlo

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Im going to cut the body off the racecar and I have this '69 Chevelle and Im going to put that body on the racecar chassis and make a track and later a street car out of it.....

Im less than a half an hour from Mosport Park roadrace track......I want to take it out and do some track days with it....also my friend owns a 1/3 mi paved oval and i want to take it out there also and have at 'er.....

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I have a 300hp 350 that I'll put in the car to get it up and running.....once that is done we'll look fot the big hp "Bullet" prob somewhere between 5 and 600 hp.

Im getting at it in the garage......its really not that dark..must be the camera settings

imagine the last pic of the Nova as a 69 Chevelle and thats the look and stance Im going after.......

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Dude, that is Bad@ss! It would be cool to build some flares over those, but the "open" look is wicked too.

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very cool project... put some turn signals on it and make it street legal!

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Cool project

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some updates....got the chevelle body on the racecar chassis now....the last pic shows how low the car is compared to my Montana

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Holy crap that's awesome!

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That is sick!

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Makes me wish I still had my 68 Malibu...then again, I wish that a lot:lol:

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i remember back in the early 70's bobby allison used to run one of those in the modified/sportsman classes on the east coast// i'll look thru my pics and see if i still have a pic of his at langhorne

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this one?...
thanks for the kudos btw guys....!

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that's it but never looked that great when he was racin it. i seem to remember alot of scrapped paint and his front bumper always seemed a bit beatup

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that is a cool project. nice to see sumptin being built differing from the trends :metal:

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I got your paint job.

Shake and Bake!

http://www.imcdb.org/images/047/716.jpg

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I hate what they did to that poor car. It looked killer! Of course, movies use several cars and the "Hero" car stays "pristine."

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Afew more pics, the brakes are Wilwood GT6000's and the exhaust is from a Hooters Cup car.

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awesome project!

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That is a gonna be a fun ride when she is done..

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That ride looks killer :metal:

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I love your car, it reminds me of the 70 Monte Carlo in the opeing scene in Fast & Furious-Toyko Drift.

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This is cool on soooo many levels.

Get out in the garage and get at it, we need to see this one done---and soon.

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Subscribed. Awesome project. And we should all be lucky enough to have a friend with a personal racetrack!

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hey thanks for all the replies.....should have known a bunch of truck guys would "get it" !.....in the last pics the body is just sitting on the chassis.....next order of business is to take the body to the media blasters and have the roof and some specific areas blasted, I'll go for a "driver paint job" as opposed to a "show winning paint job" I intend to drive the heck out of this car

I also need to freshen up the underside of the car (wire wheel/ prime/paint) then take the rolling chassis (only) to Peter Gibbons's race shop about 45 min from here and have him put what amounts to a road race set up in the car as opposed to the oval set up it has now so it can turn left AND right lol

I'll keep you guys posted thanks Doug

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Biased opinion being a Chevelle owner myself; the '68-'69 are by far the "meanest" styling of the entire Chevelle line. Yours absolutely adds to that! What a combination, great work! I'm looking forward to more.

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I had a 68 too!.....agree def the meanest era....followed by the 66'.....but I do love em' all

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I love old round trackers, and that has got to be one of the coolest builds ever. Very original, I can't wait to see more :metal:

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In!!

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This is the coolest build i have ever got to lay eyes on.

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Wow thanks!.....I can remember going to a little 1/3 mi paved bullring called Peterbourgh Speedway in (you guessed it) Peterbourgh Ontario as a teen in the Late 70s and seeing the whole field of Late Models being 68 -72 Chevelles!.... I thought they were so cool with their wheels all hanging out, their nasty smallblocks and the bodies right down on the ground....thats where it all started....and that track btw is still in operation.....I'll post some more build pics tomorrow

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Do u wanna lend me some money to build one of these lol??? jk
Awesome project man.

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I know projects go slow but i can't wait to see any updates. This is so cool to see two recycled cars married as one and then put on the street using the old race chassis.

You have seen it for years where guys buy old drag cars and put em on the street, but its VERY rare to see it done with a circle track car.

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Very cool build! Have you chosen a color combo yet?

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heres some build pics....pulled the sheet metal off the racecar
http://i962.photobucket.com/albums/a...DSC02150-1.jpg
http://i962.photobucket.com/albums/a...k/DSC02151.jpg
http://i962.photobucket.com/albums/a...k/DSC02228.jpg

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then removed the body from the Chevelle
http://i962.photobucket.com/albums/a...k/DSC02184.jpg
http://i962.photobucket.com/albums/a...k/DSC02186.jpg

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sold the rolling chassis to a guy for $750 then cut out the entire rusty floor and trunk pan out of the Chevelle with a sawsall and a torch.....the one pic is smokey had a decent little fire going on......the Chevelle came with no motor/trans, interior, wiring, cluster, not even a steering coloum...the car was parted out years ago and sat in a barn, nobody wanted it.....perfect car for me....It does have new quarters and came with a full title. speced out to a 307 powerglide car.
http://i962.photobucket.com/albums/a...k/DSC02186.jpg
http://i962.photobucket.com/albums/a...k/DSC02212.jpg

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Took a whole box trailer full of metal to the dump ,rolled the racecar underneath and slowly started lowering the Chevelle body over it.....on the first drop the body stopped about halfway down the A pillar of the cage, I estimate it took about 2hrs of work(cutting, measuring, eyeballing) for every inch it went down after that.....had to thin the rockers to get it to fit over....the good thing about the racecar is the rectangular frame rails are all perfectly straight, makes it easy to measure and work with.
http://i962.photobucket.com/albums/a...k/DSC02215.jpg
http://i962.photobucket.com/albums/a...k/DSC02216.jpg

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I am really looking forward to seeing the rest of this build! Keep up the good work!

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one more..
http://i962.photobucket.com/albums/a...k/DSC02247.jpg