Its ALIVE!

[67Mach1]

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Posted this as a new purchase some months ago. Well she fired up this past weekend and seems like she has a strong running motor. After six years of sleeping, and trying to get it running with the old carb, I got a "new" rebuilt quadrajet, and she started on the second try.

Lots of smoke on start up and slight smoking during run but sounds great. The old Flowmasters still work and sound great.

Spent the rest of this week gutting what was left of the interior and pulling out not one, but two rats nests from behind the nasty side panels in the back and tons of poop under the seats. A quick trailer trip to the car wash got most of it rinsed out but not the smell( anyone got any ideas for that one?).

Rebuilt rear brakes and installed a new/rebuilt master cylinder too. Learned that on trucks that have been modified by the PO it is best to take the exsisting part withyou before you go to the parts store as you never know what truck the part may have come from.

Turns out my M/C and power booster apparently came from a late 70's or early 80's Truck.

The first test drive should come this weekend.

No new pics at this time but I will work on that. Should have taken some of the rats nexts and the wierd stand offs he had use to lift the non origional seat high enough to fit.

Hopefully I can update this before the list drops off the board next time.

Cant wait for my new interior parts to come in thanks to Hart-Rod.

Unfortunatly the Rear end bounces and swings around like the shocks are dead. Since I dont know what kind of drop he used I will have to post pics and see if I can get some input. I dont think the shock mounts are not relocated and I know the panhard bar is almost horizontal. Will deal with that next, I guess.

Thanks for reading!
Thomas