Car is looking great. I remember when you bought it - it has come a long way under your ownership!

What a beauty.

Tony, it could only go one way LOL. She was rough as a cob when I got it. But thanks for the comments!

Thanks Tony. It was rough as a cob when I got it. It could only go one way! Lol. Thanks for the comments.

Here are a few more pictures, will be posting more in a few weeks.

Few more here.

I got the Chevelle home and happy with the paint and body work. There are some things I don’t like but can live with them. The repop passenger door is a pain to get 100% not sure it ever will be. The repop cowl seal is pushing the driver side rear of the hood up slightly so still on the hunt for a NOS cowl seal. The interior looks nice, combo of original and new stuff. All and all inside is ok. The Muncie stick is on a Hurst shifter and works well. The dash pad needed massaging but was able to make the garnish molding fit very nice. All the glass is original except the driver door where a tree fell on the car during the 78 blizzard per the second owner. The original stainless is dent free, polished up very nice and fits very well, happy with that. I installed and old Sun oil pressure and temp gauge set I had and that is helpful given it is a non gauge car. I am not going to put a tach on it I like the plain Jane look. The original engine is bored .060 and runs about as good as any BB I have owned. Can’t really say why? When we rebuilt the engine it was .030 over already the second owner told me the oil pump failed when he owned and he had the dealer rebuild the engine. We used a Standard brand L78 Cam and good components but nothing over the top. The M21 I had built for the car and it shifts well. The KK 4.10 is quiet, I am happy with it. I need to work on glass adjustment and the passenger door alignment. Overall I am glad I rescued this rusty dog, it is fun to drive. Here are a few pics. Thanks to Dan Vasic for the help and many returned texts and calls in the pursuit of this build.

Here are a few more pics

Looks great!

Another one saved, it doesn't get any better than that!!

That came along nicely.......well done Lawrence!

looks great! did I see somewhere that this was a Framingham built car? I recently brought home a car from NJ that was Framingham built L78 Bench seat car

Good looking car. Did it have the side stripe originally? If I missed it already being discussed then my apologies.

69 L78 Chevelle...
 

Very nice...clean and simple car.

Enjoy it :3gears:

Thanks Tim. Still have a nice punch list to work through.
Yes it is a Framingham car. Sold new at Monument Chevrolet Somerville Ma.
As far as I can tell it did not have a stripe. I have pictures of the car from 1972 and there are no stripes. I spoke to the second owner and he told me he did not remember stripes. I have a partial build sheet and I did not see it listed.

Beautiful Chevelle!

Thanks Ralph. I reached out to the seller for a plate.

I used to work for Penn Central Railroad back in the early seventies right next to the GM plant in Framingham some of the Oldtimers used to tell stories about the guys at the plant who parked the cars after they came off the assembly line in the late sixties they would race on Western ave in front of the plant on the night shift when nobody was around.

I see a lot of arduous originality under that hood, very nice. Great job.

I have been working through the last 10% of the resto of the Garnet Red car. I put (I call it dum dum) on the quarter tail light extension studs, and used the original nuts. They are much better than the repop ones. Not big surprise there. The shifter needed some tweaking got that dialed in. Had a real scare with a rocker nut coming loose halfway through a 25 mile run. Tightened that back up and adjusted the valve but need a new nut. Did an overall clean up under the hood and have plenty more to do. Windows need to be adjusted, paint the master cylinder, new pcv hose, air filter and more. The car does run well with exception of a lean surge. I will work on that soon.

Great story on your Chevelle, and nice save you've done on it. Thanks for sharing.