First real drives in the 1 year and 3 month rebuild phase, first time its been registered since 95.

Runs goodish, needs a lot of carb and linkage tuning, but damn, it is finally on the road.

Although, I almost Fuched up bigtime and was one lug away from loosing a rear wheel due to not torquing down on the bolts. Dodged a big one there.


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Congrats , car looks great!

Congratulations Its a long time coming but you made it. Now enjoy

.... Yup, looks great - especially with all the wheels still attached!

Very nice!

And THAT was a close one. Wheel started coming off on a city street at low speed. Had been on the freeway. And of course, i did not have a lug wrench, but a guy who heard the commotion (wheel locking up and skiding, me cursing at the top of my lungs) came to the rescue with a big socket wrench, blocks for my tires (was on a slope with only the lame stock jack) AND he was just working on that block (plumber) and he chased the threads on one of my lug bolt so it would thread. Oh! AND in my freaked out state of mind he suggested i rob a bolt off another wheel so i could limp home on more than two bolts. Lost a couple of them on the street, and when i went back to look for them, hunted down the guy and brought him a six pack of blue moon.

Do not want to fuch with this sort of karma.

Congrats! Hope to see you on the road soon.

I like the look without the side marker lamps, BTW.

kkid

Yeah losing a rear wheel sucks!
Here's after I unfolded this section of the fender and pounded out some of the creases:
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Was really close to this. As it turned out, just a minor "flaring" of the rear fender from the tire. Cannot really even tell.

Thanks man. Did all my own body work.

I was thinking the same thing when I saw the pic. They look sooooo much better without the wart.

LOL!! Never thought of it as a wart. Damn, maybe a Cindy Crawford beauty mark?

Would there be any weber gurus in the east bay willing to check out my set up and give me some direction? Kinda feel like the car is running sluggish, and should have more poop. Will supply your choice of beer!

Lucky! I had to drill out that little bracket inside the fender and untwist it

Losing front wheel bolts does not do any harm. At least if you are driving slow you only have to find bolts from road and continue driving..

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[quote name='OmaPossu' date='Aug 9 2010, 11:11 AM' post='1354180']
Losing front wheel bolts does not do any harm. At least if you are driving slow you only have to find bolts from road and continue driving..

Found 3 out of 4. Retraced my route, could not find the 4th. Never realized how many rocks look like 914 lug nuts, LOL!

Going to try and source a single bolt from EASY.

Jeffdon,

It is indeed a sign when you are "DESTINY'S CHILD" you must just go with it, don't think about how lucky you were, just learn from it and hopefully it will never happen again. (Because you will become super ANAL about tourqing down your lugs). It's kind of like putting a boat in the water without the plug secured...it only happens once.

Car looks great enjoy!!!



Vysoc

LOL! Did the boat plug thing once too.