1960 chevy parkwood wagon!

[68basket]

I fired up my engine and broken in the cam this weekend. I have a video but dont know how to post it here.

I finished up the engine and front light wiring, wrapped the harness with factory style wrap and used factory style mounts.

[68basket]

Driveshaft is installed and parking brake cables installed. STarted installing all the rear wiring this evening but have no pics of that.

[yahoos]

Hope you have better luck then me! Lol Woah someone cut a square in the bottom of your frame?

[68basket]

Yea. I hope I don't have the issues you are having. I am guessing they cut that hole to get access to the carrier bearing? After the car is done I may weld a plate over it.

[yahoos]

Originally Posted by 68basket

Yea. I hope I don't have the issues you are having. I am guessing they cut that hole to get access to the carrier bearing? After the car is done I may weld a plate over it.

That's just crazy. Pulling these driveshafts isn't that hard. lol I would weld it up. These frames aren't that great to begin with lol

[Heavy Evy]

Just went through the whole thread and man you got me itching to work on my 67 wagon. I'm very curious to see your bag setup in action. There's a 60 sedan delivery in my hood that is just crying for a similar setup but the guy won't part with it.

[olblue60@aol.com]

I have 3 1960 Chevy sedan deliveries. One is a daily driver the other two are not running. Fun to drive and 60s seem to get a lot of attention!

[BigMike]

Oh how I miss my 60. Had big plans for it but with 6 other cars at the time I have to thin the herd down. 60 is my favorite year, great lines.

[68basket]

Your car looks sweet! I am kinda partial to the tasco turquoise

Originally Posted by BigMike

Oh how I miss my 60. Had big plans for it but with 6 other cars at the time I have to thin the herd down. 60 is my favorite year, great lines.

[68basket]

Have not taken many pics recently but there has been a lot of progress. I got the car driving and on the road last week, i did an alignment and calibrated the speedo. Drove the car about 100 miles so far. I am loving it. Dropped it off sunday at the upholstry shop! Cant wait to see what they do, i am like a little kid waiting on christmas. Here is where the car is now www.sewntight.com Oh and we got a pile of snow a couple of weeks ago, but now its all gone and 65 degrees now.

[68basket]

Did a quick alignment to make sure i dont destroy the tires. I am going to tweek it some later on.

[sean1969c10]

Awesome work!! That is the color combination I am planning on painting my 60 Impala sedan.

[lolife99]

Did you put a slip yoke in the rear driveshaft?
Those billet carrier bearings don't have much flex to them like the stock version does.

http://www.iedls.com/Driveshafts/Sto...riveshafts.asp

[68basket]

Originally Posted by lolife99

Did you put a slip yoke in the rear driveshaft?
Those billet carrier bearings don't have much flex to them like the stock version does.

http://www.iedls.com/Driveshafts/Sto...riveshafts.asp

Yes I used the cpp rear slip shaft. There is a pic of it a page or 2 back.

I pick it up from the upholstery shop tomorrow and can't wait!

[68basket]

I Have been slacking on updates. Here are some recent pics. I got the car back from the upholstery shop and love it!! I have bout about 300 miles on it and having a problem with the transmission. Its currently at the trans shop waiting on a verdict. I went to training for work and got to meet Bogie from the tv show All girls garage, She is a great person and took time to talk to me for a little bit. Here are some pics cause thats what everyone lines to see!!

[68basket]

Got some striping done also, I am loving this car and it turns heads everywhere it goes. Hopefully will have it at its first show in the next week or two.

[68basket]

A couple shots of it laid out in my drive way, and a shot of the cluster driving down the road. Loving it.

[68basket]

wow, i just screwed all those pics up, way too small. Oh well, i may try to fix them later on if anyone wants them any bigger.

[nlped]

Pics are a bit small, but I totally dig what I'm seeing. Love it

[Advanced Design]

Yeah, your wagon looks really good!

[RDrancher]

Thanks for the update. It's looking great and the pinstriping turned out awesome!

[KevsClassics]

Wagon is sweet Taylor. Great job on everything.

[chevyrestoguy]

What was the deal with your transmission issue? Hopefully, you got through it without killing your wallet.

[68basket]

Thanks for all the kind comments.

I Took the wagon on the Hot rod power tour and did the long haul!! I put 3000 miles on the car in one week! Ran into a great board member crawdadfox and his wife, It was awesome to run into you guys in baton rouge. No major issues during the trip other than a cracked wheel and another bent one.

A little feedback on the unisteer rack kit is don't buy one. It leaks like crazy and seems to be pretty twitchy at higher speeds. I am now getting parts together to put a gearbox back on the car.

[68basket]

Took all 3 kids to a local cruise in last sunday. Fun stuff.