66 L79 Chevy II first real drive in 35 years

[flyingn]

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]

Originally Posted by flyingn

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]

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

[Jamess113]

Originally Posted by flyingn

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]

Originally Posted by 69Z11Pacer396

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]

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

[Jamess113]

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]

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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

~ Pete

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[Formula455SD]

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

[Jamess113]

Originally Posted by PeteLeathersac

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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

~ 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.