http://wwwcoastclassiccars.com/Chevy/id38.htm
Those are turn signal indicators...not sure if they were an option or not on Chevelles, but I've seen 'em on many a luxury car in my time.
Kelly Jana Hanna
HannaWoodworks
ClassicChevyCountry
You have seen those on Chevys?
Nope...usually Buicks, Cadillacs, Oldsmobiles, Lincolns and Chryslers, etcnever on any Chevy that I remember.
Kelly Jana Hanna
HannaWoodworks
ClassicChevyCountry
I have run the all metal units with success and experiencedfatigue failure with the plastic bladed type fans.
Yep, I've had one of the all metal ones (a four blade unit came with my truck)...in all fairness they are much safer, but I replaced it with a six blade fan and clutch and it cools much
dunno Vernon,
Everytime I've seen these hose covers, they just don't look very good. I doubt the problem is in your installation,
more than likely just a cheese product.
We just got back from Keller's in Dallas and we saw a 70 SS with the braided hoses...he told us that he wished he'd never put
What kind of motor do you have in front of that 200-R4? And where was your
trans built? I've read in the rags that they're decent for mild V8s, but
others have had serious trouble with them. Just curious..
I didn't catch this one the first time...200's are very weak transmissions...even built
Kelly right,. The ZZ4 Has angle plug heads and D shaped exhaust ports. Headman makes a few applications with the D
port flange. TryJim Pace Chevrolet.
Looks like I stand corrected on that. I thought they didn't have them since both the pictures and descriptions of the ZZ4's on all the crate
Anybody know of an Impala List similar to our Chevelle list here. A
buddy of mine is hooked - and is interested in a '59 Impala in the next
couple of years - I trying to get him some good sources for info.
http://www.hossimpala.com/
They have a link to Yahoo's list there...in fact for just
Larry, You were right. I got under the car and cleaned off the cover and it really said 308.The 3 was covered with
dirt.I think that is thegears.The welds all look factory except where someone has added a sway bar.It has a tag
that says something like use limited slip lube only.Maybe if I do
I think El Camino is the same as Il Cammino in italian and that means the walk
I'll bet a buck you're right, I know that Italian and Spanish are very closely related languages.
Kelly Jana Hanna
HannaWoodworks
ClassicChevyCountry
BTW, The Kingwould makea good license plate on an El Camino,but those that don't knowhow it relates to the car
would think your an Elvis fan! : )(and anyone that doesn't know who Elvis is, should ask their mom beforethey ask
thelist)
How about RD KING?
Kelly Jana Hanna
HannaWoodworks
Granted, these two Chevelles aren't everyone's cup of tea, but they aren't that bad.For that matter, I'm afraid to
askwhat everyone really thinks of my Elky!
Awesome would be a good start:) I'm all for customizing cars, but when they are cobbled up, I'm out. Those weren't the worst I've
El Camino = The King El Camino Real = The King's Road
El Camino was originally the path as the phrase was coined well before Cortez's time. Dan was correctReal means royal (hence for a king)the phrase El Camino Real translates into The King's Road in English
Kelly Jana Hanna
OOPS! You're right! I got em backwards. Was thinking of the
Coronet but thats another story.
Ah gettin' old...
It's great ain't it...I've got CRS (can't remember Sh*t), too...wonderful ailment...good thing we got others like us that remember certain things and keep us in line huh?
Kelly Jana
It's growing like a virus.better bookmark this one as most of the sites are either a must see or are asked about all the time on these lists...lot's of you guys are on it alreadyanyone else wanna link there???
Kelly Jana Hanna
HannaWoodworks
ClassicChevyCountry
Whoops...gettin' old and CRS
http://users3.ev1.net/~woodcat/CCCsitelinks.html
Kelly Jana Hanna
HannaWoodworks
ClassicChevyCountry
So put in AutoLite plugs...nothing special... and it
still does the same thing. Do i need to get plugs i can gap or what going
on here.
Try AC plugs that you can gap first, then see if it still does it.
Kelly Jana Hanna
HannaWoodworks
ClassicChevyCountry
Don't get me wrong, I'm not technophobic or anything (heck, I manage a group
of engineers in the medical device sector), but I believe this kid hit the
nail right on the head. I am confident that our hobby is in good hands
going forward...not that I'm ready to cash in or anything (at age 44).
WHAT ARE PEOPLE DOING TO THESE CARS?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1848392347
scroll down and look at the interior pic. pay attention the the pedals.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1848081832
also look at the interior pic.
F'n
It is a copy of that articleabout the '70 LS6 w/aluminum heads.
Kent, can you send a copy to me as well? I've got a buddy in our local car club that would love a copy, but he has no email. Thanks, Kelly
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kelly Jana Hanna
HannaWoodworks
ClassicChevyCountry
But, I will get this sorted out.
Gotcha..thanks.
Kelly Jana Hanna
HannaWoodworks
ClassicChevyCountry
Is that price crazy or can he really get that kind of $ for that car? That's incredible!! Must have a diamond
studded shift ball or something!! I've never seen that kind of price for even a Yenko. Fully restored old vettes go
for 60-75k. I recall seeing a Z-16 fully restored a few years ago with
try the link below
Suicide doors huh? Interesting car, thanks for the link.
Kelly Jana Hanna
www.hannawoodworks.com
If it's just the upshift and down shift you don't like save your money. If you have to back off the gas to shift, then
I would replace it.
Thanks Richard...it's the shifting that's not perfect, but I can live with that. Other than that it shifts very well. I'll wait til I get the tranny shift
So, at least that's my read on a couple of Chevelles that are unique and over time have become somewhat mythical...
but ultimately, not verifiable. If anyone knows any more info on either of these cars (anyone, especially in the
Lubbock, TX area), I'd like to hear from you and consider any
Hey guys, hopefully I'll be remembered.Josh from Ky that had his car ruined by some punks.I finally got all the
bugs reworked out of my computer and I changed my e-mail account.Hotmail was driving me nuts.Anywho let me update
you all on what I have done.I am finally ready to start driving the
Kelly, it sounds like the detent switch on the carb is bad or stuck. This switch controls the down shifts. If it's
bad the trans will still down shift, you just won't be able to feel 3 to 2. It won't hurt the trans to drive like
this, it just doesn't feel right. If the switch appears to be OK
1970 SS 454 LS-6none better
Kelly Jana Hanna
www.hannawoodworks.com
Guys, you have probably never heard of Troll, the only norwegian car ever
built (except the electric ones).
You got that rightgot any pics of it?
Kelly Jana Hanna
www.hannawoodworks.com
Someone wrote asking about a downshift
problem. I accidentally erased it. Can you post the question again?
Richard...it was me...
I have a TH-400 in my 73 C-20 that will downshift into 1st from 2nd, but not to 2nd from 3rd...got any idea
why? It also shifts very quickly from 1st to second
Steve Park and DEjr danced in the grass and Park's car went 2.5 barrel rolls after hitting the guardraillooks to be ok, but I'll bet he's sore for awhile. Wallace said someone hit him from behind...anyone see who it was? I wasn't looking
Kelly Jana Hanna
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I just saw the replay...looks like Rusty turned in front of Park and pinned him up against the wall.
Kelly Jana Hanna
www.hannawoodworks.com
That was unnecessary blocking on the first lap. I am sure Rusty will say that it was not his fault. Someone could
have been killed. That was just pure stupidness.
Yep I agree...after watching it again awhile ago, it was pretty obvious. He's already said someone got into the back of him
If I know Rusty, he probably did cut him off and then complained that everyone was racing too soon.I wonder why his
crew is allowed to work on his car if there's a red flag?If they want to put it back on the track to get laps and
points would they make him wait the same amount of time (the red
There is nothing and I mean NOTHING, like the thrill of driving a big block 4 speed car!
I gotta agree with this statement...I drove an LS-7 BB 1967 Camaro in 1976 for about an hour. It was for sale in El Paso, Texas for $6k and I didn't buy it (stupid). It had the M-22 tranny...WOW! To this
Back in 71/72 I worked a parts counter for a Chevrolet dealer and whether it was law or not then I can't say but it
was a truism then as well.GM generally kept most repair/replacement parts on the books for cars up to 10 years
old.A lot of common parts are still available from GM as many have
Forgot to answer your question on what do I do. I'm a group mgr in manufacturing on the 4L-80 trans. I have worked
for GM for 29 years and 10 years at Ford. I have worked on every automatic trans GM made except the 325 and 2 speed.
Question for ya...I have a TH-400 in my 73 C-20 that will
hey anyone have an extra 2.5 mil laying around i can borrow?
eBay Motors item 1845205365
Wowwish I had it, talk about being set for life. Half the fun would be cleaning up everythingthe other half would be putting a few cars together out of the parts...no telling what you could have!
Is anybody else going to be watching the NASCAR BGN NetZero 250 (From
Fountain, Colo.)? I am working but will have it on over my shoulder.
Yep, I'm building an attic stairway to match one built in the 30's (I get to keep the original one for my attic storage in the garage...it's gonna get
Well, I finally got a few pages up (3) of the new Chevy site. I haven't gotten to the links or friends cars or club links and such yet, but will get them up soon. The second page is photo heavy and takes about 90 seconds to open with 56k. I'm amazed that I could find a pic of every car I've
Wish I could swing this one...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1846757593sspagename=ADME:B:SS:US:1
Kelly Jana Hanna
www.hannawoodworks.com
What does a steering wheel have to do with a state inspection anyway? This just sounds like another ploy by some
states to make the hobby go away. I was stationed in Texas(love the state) back in the early '60's and I had a '49
Olds. If they had required inspections back then they wouldn't have
In PA they have a required minimum diameter of 15 inches for the steering wheel. They state that in an emergency
situation with a smaller diameter wheel you can not control the car properly. I have seen some of the smaller
steering wheels come through my sop, and the people never installed a
2 of our towns state inspectors got fined $1200 plus the business was also fined $1200 for passing a car with a
aftermarket steering wheel. This has everyone scared. I live in a very small town 5k people.40 miles out of
Austin.
Going even more rural to get my sticker.
I wanna know why they
I certainly see this as an option. The TH400 I had in the car is beautiful. I would have no trouble with it in there
again, except for the hard spot I find myself in with $2000 in the 4 speed I have now. The place that did the trans
is in the link.What do you think about their 700 Raptor?They
Kelly, I have a supercharger and this makes it difficult and you have to have original steering wheel also. The
inspector showed me it to me inthe book.
Yep, the supercharger would make it difficult...you should probably register the car elsewhere (rural) and get out of that crapI've never
Does anybody have any advise?
Yep, but you and others on the list may not like it. I had to rebuild a 2004R twice last year for the same reason. These little smog car four speeds are not made for anything over 250hpeven when they are rebuilt by so called performance companies, they rarely
Agreed...
JDHall
So how come you guys aren't answering his questions or pointing him to the web for answers???
Kelly Jana Hanna
www.hannawoodworks.com
I believe several people have tried. I have answered a couple of his questions. I choose to ignore most of them.
Don
I know you have and a couple of others have, but I meant the guys that are complaining about the rest of us who are tired of the twenty questions routine. I answered a couple of
Please explain more.
Texas has a rolling 25 year exemption. You shouldn't have to get anything more than a safety inspection for a 68.
Skip,
There's no sniffer test or visual inspection for cars over 24 years old here in Texas. The current emissions test is not applicable for cars that were
Instead of the constant: What is this? What is that? type of posts with no
contributions to the list.
Bingo...you hit the nail on the head! I no longer see these messages thanks to filtersI don't have the patience some of you have!
Kelly Jana Hanna
www.hannawoodworks.com
Sorry, it should have read this way
There's no sniffer test for cars over 24 years old here in Texas. The current emissions test is
not applicable for cars that were made prior to 1979. When Jan 1st hits it'll be 1978. All they do is a safety
inspection ($12.50)...You remember the old
I'll take some new pics of the car tonight and post
them up on my page as soon as I get my cable modem hooked up
Very nice Tom...can't wait to see the General.
Kelly Jana Hanna
www.hannawoodworks.com
Congrats to you and your chevelle. Glad that there was a turnout. I haven't been to the dallas show in a couple of
years. Last time I went it was very disappointing.
It's been bad here for awhile according to others in the club I'm in...we went this year and no one missed anything (only about
Kelly:
the question was for a z16. The statement was one was for sale for 200k.
Whoops...missed that, sorry. Blows my mind to think that they could go for that much.
Kelly Jana Hanna
www.hannawoodworks.com
Maintanence items, such as alternator, water pump, brakes, tires, etc I
think would be OK... as long as they were OEM replacement parts.
What are your opinions??
They should be okay, but then again, those who are into restoring EXACTLY as the factory built the car will tell you there's
I already have a few people interested, but again I don't have much time
to focus on a club.
I have the name, logo and preliminary by-laws, but no members or dues
structure, or input from prospective members. I could use some help
here.
Maybe hit some cruise spots in your town and talk to other
Where did you see one for 200 k? In all my years dealing with chevelles I have never seen one sell or actually for
sale for over 90 k.
The highest price ever paid was a shade over $160k...recent;y at auction a super rare LS-6 convertible (6 made so they say).
Kelly Jana Hanna
Oh no...Don't do it!If there's any other alternate route - take it!You will be too upset... :(
We lost a fortune on the East Texas house, so I went for two loans (one at a higher rate for the down payment)try this avenuedon't sell the car
Kelly Jana Hanna
www.hannawoodworks.com
Kelly, know it well!! have a bunch that come through the shop complex, let me know if ya have any luck with the game!
I gotta find someone to program it...wish I knew how, it might be a big seller!
Kelly Jana Hanna
www.hannawoodworks.com
Besides the gas can thing, STOP TALKIN ON YOUR CELL PHONE WHEN FILLIN UP!!!
Speakin' of cells, I wish they'd make it illegal to talk and drive...it causes many a folk not to have a brain for payin attention to the road.
Kelly Jana Hanna
www.hannawoodworks.com
Many of them don't need the help!
Yep, good point.
Kelly Jana Hanna
www.hannawoodworks.com
Not to change the subject to cell phone, but I also think that talk and drive should be stopped. Kelly, I still
wonder if this is how your car got reared. I hear of another story about someone getting hit in the rear by a car
going 40 mph. The guy did not know what happened, until he came to in
1: People don't take pride in their cars anymore, (would you blame them)
They all look the same are designed to only last a few yrs , you have
to take them to a dealer to get them fixed. How many yrs do you think
they will stock the computer chip that runs that car? Sorry that chip
is no longer
That sounds like fun to me,where do we sign up?
How many points do you get when you hit a cell phone user?
Not nearly as many as when you hit one of those ice cream cartsextra points when they are ringing the bells (which is ALWAYS). I wanna get someone to program a video game called the
The great thing about this list is the fact that members are allowed to express non-Chevelle topics. As a software
developer, I belong to many lists. None of theselists willallow something even close to off-topic. The moderators
will not post these messages to the list, and will often suspend
I respectfully disagree.
Politics religion or any other topic should be discussed as long as it's
kept clean (so juveniles can read it) kept to a reasonable amount. If
someone wants to have a full blown discussion or debate on something other
than chevelles then ,yes, it should be taken off
I have to agree with Herb. To me, glass packs sound like an angry pack of
bumble bees. I want my car to have that deep mellow sound, and not be
obnoxious while driving through the neighborhood.
I'm with you boys on that, but am beginning to despise the flowmaster sound as well. Every truck in
I've been on this for a year now - Chevelle-less. Wanting a Chevelle since
I was 16 (now 37)
Cool, congrats on the score...sounds like a nice ride.
Kelly Jana Hanna
www.hannawoodworks.com
Well, I just sold my fourth car on ebay! We got a reasonable price for the car and everyone seems to be happythat makes me four for four now. This one sold to a guy and his daughter from Carrollton. I'm going to be doing this for people who would like to sell their special interest car,
cool... I am in The Colony... Where neighbors... What kind of car did you sell?
A 1996 Camaro RS convertible with 60k miles. It was in very good shape and only needed a few things to make it showroom condition. \
Have you heard of the Metroplex Muscle Car Club? We have a Yahoo discussion group
Well, this morning I have an official announcement to make. As of Saturday Oregon chevelles and el camino club has 100
member! we also just celebrated our first year.
Congrats! That's a good number to hit in one year
Kelly Jana Hanna
www.hannawoodworks.com
Kelly:
didn't u try to sell that car some time ago?
No sir, I listed it on June 23rd and after the end of the auction (it had some small issues that precluded it meeting it's reserve) we had an offer from one of the bidders for $1600 less than the reserve (just a wee bit under what we'd figured
Did we talk about this car some time back? Like maybe when I called you?
No, I hadn't met this girl then. She's a friend of a friend in our car club. I did tell you about selling my MCSS on ebay when we talked and the fact that I was going to try it for other people.
Kelly Jana Hanna
I hope it's clean...
An answer to that might just come under the head of too much infohahahahaha
Kelly Jana Hanna
www.hannawoodworks.com
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1843422309sspagename=ADME:B:SS:US:1
Kelly Jana Hanna
www.hannawoodworks.com
1. Extreme differences in technology. We are about to see a drastic change in technology. It is gonna make the switch
to FI look like nothing. The new larger electric systems with alternators on the flywheel, cars that no longer idle
but shut off while the brake is held, cylinders that stop
I just wish they had better power plants in the 78-87s.
Mine does...320 ponies beats the 170 hp stocker any day (and it's the original motor)on the looks issue, that's purely a matter of taste. I can think of several cars that looked great after '72. Fact is that the smog crap started
I too would like to thank Rich for going out of his way to make sure I
received this valuable resource! Your the real deal Rich, Thanks!
I have to agree...even scanned it into paint for me since I couldn't read .doc files...very nice!
Kelly Jana Hanna
www.hannawoodworks.com
gotta love it...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1842442004
Hilarious, I gotta find these relatives and get in on this!:))
Kelly Jana Hanna
www.hannawoodworks.com
What is up with this? Definately interesting.
He's spoofing all the crap mods that promise more poniesfunny.
Kelly Jana Hanna
www.hannawoodworks.com
I checked this site out and it is legit.When I checked (and added my name) there were only about 250,000
signatures. Given that we have a population in this country of over 280,000,000 this is not a good turn out.
306,325 now
Kelly Jana Hanna
www.hannawoodworks.com
i personally dont like the idea of the gto coming out again.i didnt like it when the malibu came out-particulary
cause its a 4 door 4 banger, so at least this GTO will have a V8 with 300+ HP. :)
The last new car I liked was the Monte Carlo SS 83-87...then I owned one...what a mistake that was.
In a message dated 7/11/2002 10:51:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm stickin' to the pre '79's from now on. The new re-releases are sad...wanna Goat? Get a real one...they cost less!
Kelly Jana Hanna
www.hannawoodworks.com
This is so true, that is why the next car
Aim sticking to pre 72s
I wanted to as well, but they've gone out of my range price wise...at least for a daily driver anyway.
Kelly Jana Hanna
www.hannawoodworks.com
Bummer. Hope your able to get your DEAD beat agent to respond to your needs. In PA a must have insurance You do not
want to run out of insurance for any reason. you get thrown into the HIGH=RISK pile and get assinged to a carrier
,at two to three times your old rate. This can happen for a number
I didn't think the normal fan woulda done this...
http://www.speedwaymedia.com/Articles/071002fans2.asp
Kelly Jana Hanna
www.hannawoodworks.com
Looks like the only thing they should have had to drink wasPepsi.If that ~was~ the case, PepsiCo should issue a
formal apology to NASCAR specificallyand racing fans in general.
Yep, they shouldI wonder if these people got a chastising yet from the company? I'd sure be embarrassed if I had
Kelly,
A while back I switched insurance companies and was informed that it was illegal to have two policies running at the
same time. I don't know if that is only an Ohio law, but you may want to check that out. Take it easy,
I think we have the same law...trust me, I'll be a cancelling the
Don't do it sooner, you don't want to be one day without insurance or they can raise your rates.
No, I meant get the new policy earlier...I'd never go a day without it...that's asking for it!!
Kelly Jana Hanna
www.hannawoodworks.com
premiums to cover the losses.
We are all in the wrong business. Always being screwed and forced to
keep paying.
Kelly C. Hanna wrote:
It seems as thought there's never a week without some kind of crisis
going onthis week, I cannot get anyone in car insurance to return
my calls about a new policy
This is something I'd like to know too.
Cuz if I have a different engine in mine than the original, I'm pullin that
sucker and going to a 350 at least.
BYE, BYE 305!!!
You should do this anyway...you'll be happier with more cubes and a much more reliable engine.
Kelly Jana Hanna
Craig; If you just turned the ignition to ON it will
show 12 v. And if you dropped to 10v after connecting the pig tail, I assume you mean the field wire, thisis
normal. The bat. wire may do the same. If you send me your off line address I'll send you an article on how to
trouble shoot it. it's
It seems as thought there's never a week without some kind of crisis going onthis week, I cannot get anyone in car insurance to return my calls about a new policy for my two cars. As most of you know, we had someone rear-end Jana and we had to go to a lawyer to get anything out of the
Who has your homeowner insurance?? I would think that if a insurance company had your homeowners insurance, they
would want your car. I have State Farm, I will call my agent.
That's a thoughtnot sure of the agent but it's Safeco...
Kelly Jana Hanna
www.hannawoodworks.com
Did you try Hagerty Insur. ? I hear a lot of guys have them and like them. I
am thinking of switching my cars to them.
web site
http://www.hagerty.com/
The web site is not working...will try them again later, but I've had trouble trying it once before in both browsers...
Kelly Jana Hanna
The 350 hp is complete and was running when it was pulled.
Its also available at a steal for 600 bucks. The 375hp is just a shortblock
and is extremely pricey at 1500 bucks. Both are correct numbers for a 69
Chevelle. I'm not loaded by any means however I can afford the right choice.
All input
Thanx for the reminder. I forgot the race ..been watching our local flooding. My son father-in-laws homes are in
the path of rising water. I need a distraction.
The flooding here in Texas is really bad...I watched a house roof float away just now on a clipI feel for those folks. We'll be
25 hit the wall hard. Just as hard as Dale Sr. did. Hopes he is alright.
That was a VERY hard hit...front-row Joe is ok thoughanother miracleI have a lot of disdain built up for those God-forsaken plates
Kelly Jana Hanna
www.hannawoodworks.com
Abilene in west central texas. We are 4 hrs north of all the flooding you see on TV. We got 10-12 inches of rain
last nite this AM. Not near as widespread deep as in the San Antonio area, but a damn problem to us. Thanx for
your concern.
BTW- I live on high ground. we can't go far, but are dry
Kelly, You said the G word; Be careful.
Damn the torpedoes!
Kelly Jana Hanna
www.hannawoodworks.com
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