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Thank you Sam, it was my privilege. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: VintageMusclecar</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Just had the Chevelle weighed at the local grain elevator--scales are accurate within 20 lbs. With me in it and ~1/2 tank of fuel, 3960 lbs.
Yep. It's a tank. </div></div> 3960!!!! Are you serious?? DAMN you a "portly" guys Eric. I know a few guys that RUN 67 Chevelle's, John Wilson Red '67 was 3615 and "Crazy Dave's '67 is 3508. John's was pump gas and OEM oval port heads and motor from VortecPro Mark Jones. Crazy's '67 was a Struab tech pump gas hyd roller with were auto trans too? My '61 Pontiac with 409 and 4 speed was only 3780, me 218 and a half tank of gas. Man that car is your is heavy!!!!!!! |
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----Red Alert was 3980 with my 200lbs in the drivers seat and about 5 gallons of 110 octane aboard......Bill S
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"Portly"???...wtf? Now I'm a fatass...that's nice.
The car weighed 3680 without me in it and with ~ 1/2 tank of fuel. That's with an iron head big block, bench seat, steel wheels, a (heavy-ass) Legend 5 speed manual gear box, a Quicktime steel scattershield & block plate, and a full 3" exhaust out the back. |
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Wouldn't describe Eric as portly. Just a big guy.
Eric, is that cross section of the new trailer hitch 3" or 4" square tubing. I am getting ready to make a hidden hitch for my 68 El Camino, using a 69 Camaro fold down license plate to hide the receiver. I have some 4" tubing I think will do for the cross piece. |
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Thank you Lynn.
For the record (but not that it matters), I'm 6' and hover somewhere around 275-280. Yes, I've got a bit of a belly--but I can also bench & squat (ass to ankles, no chicken-shit 1/2 squats) 315+, and that's with bad knees, a bad back <span style="font-style: italic">and</span> bad shoulders...I think that's fairly respectable for a 50 year old fart. I'll get a measurement on the hitch for you shortly. |
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Dude, I've got corns older than you.
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OOPS. This was meant as a pm.
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LOL sorry Eric, didn't know "how" to word it, so just used "PORTLY"?
Was away on vacay in sunny Arizona and away from my computer, or better stayed AWAY from it. That's pretty go with the weights. I too just turned 50, also 5'10" but I'm only 225. Can still "preacher curl" 4 plates on a bar on the bench as well. I have ALWAYS had a belly but also 50" chest with it. |
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Nothing like doing a job over because of garbage repop parts.
Notice anything--eh--amiss here? https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics...-42393-001.jpg https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics...-42394-002.jpg https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics...-42395-003.jpg Notice how the frame bracket for the clutch Z-bar has bent severely inboard towards the engine. To recap: someone had pilfered the original Z-bar bracket from the car's frame before I bought the car. Naturally, I was unable to source a good original bracket (we won't even talk about the rest of the clutch linkage...), so I was forced to go with a repop. At the time, there was only one available, and it was notably thinner (--1/8" to be specific--) than an original component. Something told me this was going to come back to haunt me later...as usual, I was right--as the pictures show. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/rolleyes.gif[/img] Thankfully, someone now reproduces the bracket in the original 3/16" thickness. I picked one up a couple of months back and called in a favor from a friend to cut off the old bracket and weld the new one on for me (he's a far better welder than I am). New bracket in place: https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics...-42396-004.jpg Remnants of the old bracket--effortlessly crumpled like tinfoil. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics...-42397-005.jpg Now comes the fun of trying to get the inner fender back in place w/o borking anything up in the process. Can't let the cat out of the bag just yet, but there may be more updates in about a month. More soon--I hope. |
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