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flyingn 08-25-2025 12:02 PM

what do you do for gas? The crap we get today lasts a few months. The additives you put in to preserve it dont seem to work like it once did.

RPOLS3 08-25-2025 12:35 PM

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Originally Posted by flyingn (Post 1678014)
what do you do for gas? The crap we get today lasts a few months. The additives you put in to preserve it dont seem to work like it once did.

Frank I can get 91 octane no ethanol gas around my parts and it seems to work well, no issues in several years with 3 old cars. Put in all my yard equipment too.

69Z11Pacer396 08-25-2025 12:35 PM

Beautiful '66! Good to see it is being exercised & enjoyed!

Jamess113 08-25-2025 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by flyingn (Post 1678014)
what do you do for gas? The crap we get today lasts a few months. The additives you put in to preserve it dont seem to work like it once did.

We have a fairly local gas station that sells 100 octane right at the pump. Think it's Cam2 or Vp racing fuels. Much longer shelf life, well over a year, and you don't have to worry about damage that today's fuel will cause.

Jamess113 08-25-2025 01:22 PM

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Originally Posted by 69Z11Pacer396 (Post 1678016)
Beautiful '66! Good to see it is being exercised & enjoyed!

Thanks! Only thing that scares me are the tires, don't want to push my luck with any long drives. But some short local drives I think are ok. Amazingly once the tires got a little heat in them things really smoothed out a bit.

markinnaples 08-25-2025 04:11 PM

That is just one Beautiful Chevy II, wow, nice car.

Jamess113 09-01-2025 12:03 AM

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We had the Chevy II out again the weekend. Drove it over to our 24th annual Cruising Downtown show early Saturday morning with a few other cars. We were pretty lucky to have our friend Bob bring out his beautiful 67 Indy Pace car to the show.

PeteLeathersac 09-01-2025 12:51 PM



For anyone that missed it also worth going through again, here’s the thread when Jay first shared this amazing Survivor w/ us also took it to MCACN for Vintage Certification…
https://yenko.net/forum/showthread.php?t=175006
:beers:
~ Pete

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Formula455SD 09-01-2025 04:20 PM

Tires should be fine on a cool day with speeds under 45mph.

Jamess113 09-01-2025 04:50 PM

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Originally Posted by PeteLeathersac (Post 1678525)


For anyone that missed it also worth going through again, here’s the thread when Jay first shared this amazing Survivor w/ us also took it to MCACN for Vintage Certification…
https://yenko.net/forum/showthread.php?t=175006
:beers:
~ Pete

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Thanks Pete for posting that. I have a ton pictures, over 2000 of them. I tried to photo document the car best I could as we throughly detail it and looked for a build sheet.


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