69 BB identification...."PICTURES ADDED"

[All American Racer]

Guys, my girl came home today with a digital camera. As soon as I figure out how to use it I'll post the pics I promised. Thank you guys very much for helping me verify the car as an original big block car. I'll keep looking for a build sheet but my hopes are slim. The front end needs a rebuild desperately. I have about 3 quarters of a turn of freeplay in the wheel and the control arm bushings look like terrible. I almost started a new thread for my next question but I'll give it a shot here. Who to buy parts from? I would like to support NNN as much as possible but they only had about half of the list I compiled. I would like to hear what you folks have to say about other vendors. I have a Year One catalog but man aren't they expensive! Is there truth to the saying "you get what you pay for" in this case? One manual I want goes for $41.95 at Year One - $25.00 at NNN. Looks like the same one to me. Any thoughts? Marc

[Belair62]

Ron Normann at McHenry Classic Car Parts....very knowledgeable...815-648-1700...he's a little cranky on Mondays !!! (sorry Ron)

[Schonyenko2]

Ron is very good. We also get a lot of front end parts from PST. They have a super kit thay has just about everything you'll need in original material, or poly graphite. S.

[All American Racer]

I've seen the polygraphite kits but I am not familiar with them. I guess in my mind anything but rubber would make the ride harsher. For instance, my old 73 had rubber body mounts and my buddy's 73 had urethane bushings. When I rode in his car it seemed like I could feel every bump in the road go right up my back. This was 1986 and I'm sure technology has changed a bit but this is why I'm hesitant to use anything but rubber. Any thoughts on polygraphite guys? Marc

[lzdick]

Belair,
You are both right and wrong. Right: Ron Normann at M.C.C.P. is a very knowledgeable and helpful guy. Wrong: Monday is officially "happy day" around the shop. You just need to give him a buzz and he'll probably tell you exactly how happy he is to hear from you. You go..."Mini-Mayor".

[All American Racer]

I took some pictures of the car tonight but I can't post them because the smallest one is 220KB. 100000 bytes is the max allowed here. I'm new to this digital camera. What do I need to do to reduce the bytes? Marc

[Xplantdad]

go to Easy Thumbnails and download the free software.

You can configure how many "bytes" that you want your pictures to be, and also what dimensions. I think that the moderators on this board would like them to be scaled to no more that 640x480? I scale mine to 500x500.

Hope this helps.

Bruce

[Belair62]

That is really east software too...I use it now myself...

[Eddie M.]

I went though this with Rob on my pics to. see if you can resize them on your camara then download it,it worked for me anyway
Eddie

[Nova Research Project]

Send them to me and I can resize them and post them at Chevynova.org too.

Greg