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**Classic Heartbeat** · 09-07-2003, 05:57 PM

We worked on the Panel off and on this last weak. I spent part of today updating the artical that I am writing about it. You will have a chance to meet our little freind that we found in our Panel also..

Take a look.... and tell me how you think that it is going. We are trying to identify and answer a lot of questions that we see asked all the time.
Here is the link: http://www.classicheartbeat.com/67_panel_project.htm

WES www.ClassicHeartbeat.com

**BIG ORANGE** · 09-07-2003, 06:11 PM

Wes great job and attention to detail,as far as the rat I've found my share of them and its a dead giveaway when you buy a truck in the winter months and cut the blower on to smell the rotten varment blowing through the vents.lol
Keep us postwed on the undates some of the new guys could really learn from this!!!

**Classic Heartbeat** · 09-07-2003, 10:14 PM

Thanks BIG ORANGE... I have found several mice in these trucks and I even found a few live ones with babies in the nest, but that was my first rat... That sucker was bone dry too so he had been there a while...lol Scared the crap out of my daughter in law too..

WES www.ClassicHeartbeat.com

68lnb · 09-07-2003, 10:40 PM

So is the truck RAT powered?

**Classic Heartbeat** · 09-07-2003, 10:46 PM

Hmmmm... Well it will have a 396 when done... I am unshure of what modifications I will be doing to it though. WES www.ClassicHeartbeat.com

Piper71c10 · 09-08-2003, 02:34 PM

Wow, Wes! You are really kicking butt on that. How long have you been at it?

Piper!

cojnit · 09-08-2003, 04:56 PM

way to go. I will probably never be able to do all of these things to my sub, even though it needs it bad, but I love living vicariously through you guys who can and do!

**Classic Heartbeat** · 09-08-2003, 10:36 PM

I have had my Panel for a year and a half, but had been rat holing parts even befor then. I always knew that I would own one so it was a more of a matter of finding the right Panel and not the parts. The work that has been done has been over a period of about 6 months and I have been taking pictures all along, knowing that I would publish them for all to see sooner or lator. Where the update is now is where I am at now on the project, and from now on progress will be more "Real Time".. I have a lot of parts at the powder coaters that I was expecting to recieve today, but somehow that didn't materialise. Once I recieve those parts, then I will install them and make some modifications to the firewall that I want to do. So there will be more progress to report on soon... I hope.. LOL Anyway, I thank you for your interest, I realy do appriciate it, and I hope everyone learns something from this Rodstoration. WES www.ClassicHeartbeat.com

09-07-2003, 05:57 PM	#1
Classic Heartbeat Project Junkie! Fishing Poor!! Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Olympia,Wa. 98512 Posts: 10,766	I updated our Panel Project section. We worked on the Panel off and on this last weak. I spent part of today updating the artical that I am writing about it. You will have a chance to meet our little freind that we found in our Panel also.. Take a look.... and tell me how you think that it is going. We are trying to identify and answer a lot of questions that we see asked all the time. Here is the link: http://www.classicheartbeat.com/67_panel_project.htm WES www.ClassicHeartbeat.com __________________ On-line catolog Classic Heartbeat Pickup Parts WEHEPP@comcast.net Call us Toll Free (888) 338-2502 Like Us on Facebook No appointment necessary. 72 BB Chevy Custom Deluxe / Custom Camper 67 I-6 (Soon to be 5.7 LS1) Panel 68 BB Chevy Short Bed 72 6.0 LQ9 Short Bed Chevy 4X4 Olympia's fastest growing truck parts supplier. Olympia's home for Wayward Chevys

09-07-2003, 06:11 PM	#2
BIG ORANGE Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Lancaster S.C. Posts: 4,754	Wes great job and attention to detail,as far as the rat I've found my share of them and its a dead giveaway when you buy a truck in the winter months and cut the blower on to smell the rotten varment blowing through the vents.lol Keep us postwed on the undates some of the new guys could really learn from this!!! __________________ Things happen for a reason!

09-07-2003, 10:14 PM	#3
Classic Heartbeat Project Junkie! Fishing Poor!! Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Olympia,Wa. 98512 Posts: 10,766	Thanks BIG ORANGE... I have found several mice in these trucks and I even found a few live ones with babies in the nest, but that was my first rat... That sucker was bone dry too so he had been there a while...lol Scared the crap out of my daughter in law too.. WES www.ClassicHeartbeat.com __________________ On-line catolog Classic Heartbeat Pickup Parts WEHEPP@comcast.net Call us Toll Free (888) 338-2502 Like Us on Facebook No appointment necessary. 72 BB Chevy Custom Deluxe / Custom Camper 67 I-6 (Soon to be 5.7 LS1) Panel 68 BB Chevy Short Bed 72 6.0 LQ9 Short Bed Chevy 4X4 Olympia's fastest growing truck parts supplier. Olympia's home for Wayward Chevys

09-07-2003, 10:40 PM	#4
68lnb Registered User Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Chino Valley AZ Posts: 25	So is the truck RAT powered? __________________ 68 C20 lnb

09-07-2003, 10:46 PM	#5
Classic Heartbeat Project Junkie! Fishing Poor!! Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Olympia,Wa. 98512 Posts: 10,766	Hmmmm... Well it will have a 396 when done... I am unshure of what modifications I will be doing to it though. WES www.ClassicHeartbeat.com __________________ On-line catolog Classic Heartbeat Pickup Parts WEHEPP@comcast.net Call us Toll Free (888) 338-2502 Like Us on Facebook No appointment necessary. 72 BB Chevy Custom Deluxe / Custom Camper 67 I-6 (Soon to be 5.7 LS1) Panel 68 BB Chevy Short Bed 72 6.0 LQ9 Short Bed Chevy 4X4 Olympia's fastest growing truck parts supplier. Olympia's home for Wayward Chevys

09-08-2003, 02:34 PM	#6
Piper71c10 Unending Project Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Sequim, WA Posts: 337	Wow, Wes! You are really kicking butt on that. How long have you been at it? Piper!

09-08-2003, 04:56 PM	#7
cojnit Nothing clever Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Kailua HI Posts: 828	nice way to go. I will probably never be able to do all of these things to my sub, even though it needs it bad, but I love living vicariously through you guys who can and do! __________________ Got "the Midas Touch!"

09-08-2003, 10:36 PM	#8
Classic Heartbeat Project Junkie! Fishing Poor!! Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Olympia,Wa. 98512 Posts: 10,766	I have had my Panel for a year and a half, but had been rat holing parts even befor then. I always knew that I would own one so it was a more of a matter of finding the right Panel and not the parts. The work that has been done has been over a period of about 6 months and I have been taking pictures all along, knowing that I would publish them for all to see sooner or lator. Where the update is now is where I am at now on the project, and from now on progress will be more "Real Time".. I have a lot of parts at the powder coaters that I was expecting to recieve today, but somehow that didn't materialise. Once I recieve those parts, then I will install them and make some modifications to the firewall that I want to do. So there will be more progress to report on soon... I hope.. LOL Anyway, I thank you for your interest, I realy do appriciate it, and I hope everyone learns something from this Rodstoration. WES www.ClassicHeartbeat.com __________________ On-line catolog Classic Heartbeat Pickup Parts WEHEPP@comcast.net Call us Toll Free (888) 338-2502 Like Us on Facebook No appointment necessary. 72 BB Chevy Custom Deluxe / Custom Camper 67 I-6 (Soon to be 5.7 LS1) Panel 68 BB Chevy Short Bed 72 6.0 LQ9 Short Bed Chevy 4X4 Olympia's fastest growing truck parts supplier. Olympia's home for Wayward Chevys



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