Dave Belk's 1973 Nickey Camaro! WOW!!!!

[Xplantdad]

Hi Dave-thanks for taking the time to share your wonderful Nickey supercar with all of us! What wonderful history, vintage pictures and documentation...All I can say is WoW! (And I want a ride in it sometime) [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img] [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]

[hvychev]

Wow neat car. I never even heard of it till now but then again I'm out of the loop here. Nice to see a Nickey car with actual bullet proof paperwork. Where do I get a copy of the &quot;Chicago Dealer&quot; magazine? Also, one of my favorite &quot;barn find&quot; muscle car stories of all time is the Deuce that Dave found and bought from Marsha in IA. I have searched for that thread a bunch of times and can't find it.

[DBelk]

Thanks for the comments guys. Frank, that Marsha deuce was a riot. My neighbor kept asking me to ride along next time I was closing a deal, and he lucked out that that was the next one. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img] The magazine was muscle car review, November 2012. Cover says Chi-Town Muscle. I was a little off on the title.

[Tenney]

Cool car!! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]

[SS427]

Here are some shots of the car before and during the work we performed. Oddly enough I did not take any shots of the final engine compartment upon completion. We did not 'restore' anything here but rather it was mainly a clean up and correction deal and not a restoration. This is why some areas still look unrestored.

[DBelk]

Hi Rick! Ricks work was purely &quot;correction&quot; items. Very pleased with his work. I never intended on a sub-frame off restoration as I just didn't feel it needed it, and it was going to be driven. Interior was main thing that needed finished. I found 1973 vintage interior parts, all on E-Bay. Those seat belts are not easy to find. They are the &quot;exploding buckle&quot; one year only buckle. Lucked out and found a mint dated set. I called a guy that had a 1973 Camaro for sale and I asked if he would part with the seat belts, and I couldn't believe it, but he had an extra mint set dated for my car. That was a needle in a haystack!

The 2 engine shots above are before / after. Rick rebuilt a distributor and got rid of the MSD set-up, mfg'd a fuel line, blasted intake, replaced some incorrect bolts, got rid of the brake booster as it never had power brakes, distributor cap/wires. Nothing to major. Just wanted it to look like the original picture of engine bay posted above. I have the fly eye air cleaner, but just don't run a car with those on, for show only. I started to do the guage cluster myself, and in about 5 minutes I was calling Rick. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]

[Xplantdad]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: DBelk</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> I started to do the guage cluster myself, and in about 5 minutes I was calling Rick. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img] </div></div>

I know that feeling well!