Actually THX 1138 is goes way farther back in time than that.

THX-1138 was a futuristic science fiction prison movie by George Lucas, filmed in 1969 but released in 1971. It was his first movie made as a school project while a film student at USC

It is renowned for the Lola T70s used in the chase scenes (and their destruction)

https://forums.hemmings.com/stories/...8-real-or-fake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5nm...nel=Movieclips

Lucas used the THX and 1138 monikers in pretty much all of his movies since them, like the license plate on Milner's coupe and various Star Wars references.

I didn't know that our 66 Chevy II had a George Lucus THX1138 connection? Lol. The read on the Lola t70s was pretty neat though even if it's way off topic. Lol.

Well we finally fired up the Chevy II yesterday afternoon. This is the first time this car has been started since 2016.

It been a long road to get it all cleaned up and running. We had rebuild the original water pump as the front seal was leaking pretty bad. We were very careful not to disturb any of the water pumps original patina. As I mentioned before we flushed out the fuel tank as it looked like a swamp inside, it was pretty nasty. We took the fuel pump off and apart to inspect it and flushed out all the fuel lines. The fuel lines were full sludge and after taking the fuel pump apart it was good we did as the upper part of the housing was starting to corrode. The diaphragm seamed to be in good shaped so the pump only needed a good internal cleaning. We rebuilt the carburetor which was done back in 2016 but we thought it was a good idea to go through it again just to make sure it was all in good shape with all new gaskets and we also flush out the cooling system. After a fresh oil change and filling the float bowls, she fired right up and sounded great.

There are still a few things to button it all up, but we're getting close. Were waiting for a correct style battery and once we have that we can put the battery hold down all back in place It been pretty amazing carefully cleaning the car up. Things that were cover over with dirt and grim can now been seen.

Here's a quick video of it running yesterday and a few pictures of it outside in the sun. Its probably since 2016since this car has seen the sunlight.


https://flic.kr/p/2oyK7KJ

Pictures from yesterday outside.

Wow...

Now can I have it ? :-)

I have to admit I admire your persistence Charlie.

Looks amazing!!:headbang:

Most excellent!!

Awesome!!