Previous owner '68

[zicc1835]

all looking real good ..... nice the narrative and pictures illustrate the attention to detail

[raggedjim]

Thanks Zicc! The last couple of days I have spent thinking about scrub-lines and blowouts. Honestly, I have had one blowout in 48 years of driving, and that was my first car that I was given by my dad. I'm pretty sure he bought the tires from a farmer who lived down the road who had deemed them not safe for his tobacco wagon (some of you guys are familiar with tobacco wagon tire quality). Am I just lucky? Well, the internet says there are 11,000 blowouts a year. There are 283,000,000 registered cars on the road and I'm going to assume most of them have 4 tires ( I know! Some deviants have 3 wheeled vehicles but this is some rough numbers to work with). So that's about 1,132,000,000 tires on the road. That's .000009795 of all tires on the road having a blowout. Worrisome...

[raggedjim]

So I started working on a way to change the rear shocks so I could reduce the amount of low hanging items. None of this is new, it's been done before. I'm going to have to get some different shocks but I think it will work. It really opens up the area for mufflers too.

[raggedjim]

Pics of the rear trailing arms now. Would it still scrub if I had a blowout? I'm thinking not because the outer edge of the blown wheel would be the lowest point. If I had an unmounted 5 lug rally I'd throw it on there to find out.




Awww, who am I kidding, I don't worry about scrub-lines at all! I did all this to simplify running mufflers, and stabilize the rearend.

[raggedjim]

This is what I started with.

[MySons68C20]

Beautiful work well done!!

[raggedjim]

Originally Posted by MySons68C20

Beautiful work well done!!

Thanks! I struggled with it for a minute or two!

[raggedjim]

Plug wires... what are you gonna do? I'm going to hide them as much as I can. I'm running an hei that looks like an old school points distributor. Hopefully once I get an air cleaner on there it will all blend in.