My buddy who used to help me with old Chevies and who painted both my old cars died last year from the Big C. His headstone got installed this spring and I thought you would appreciate it:
It is an original car- long story but somebody gave it to him for a $1.00. It had plastic seat covers, like new in the back seat, 60,000 miles or so, 327-250 PG, with posi. Always garaged, never driven in winter, he's an old drag guy and when he got sick, he took the car to the drags. It ran in the 16's, then he broke a piston and had to rebuild it.
His son has the car now, he also has a 71 Chevelle SS, 350 4 speed, air, bench seat.
He never lived long enough to hear my 409 run. He was a great mechanic, worked at a Chevie dealership when 69 Camaros COPO cars when they were new. He could listen to an engine and tell you which piston had a miss and most of the time, why it had a miss.
Don
It is an original car- long story but somebody gave it to him for a $1.00. It had plastic seat covers, like new in the back seat, 60,000 miles or so, 327-250 PG, with posi. Always garaged, never driven in winter, he's an old drag guy and when he got sick, he took the car to the drags. It ran in the 16's, then he broke a piston and had to rebuild it.
His son has the car now, he also has a 71 Chevelle SS, 350 4 speed, air, bench seat.
He never lived long enough to hear my 409 run. He was a great mechanic, worked at a Chevie dealership when 69 Camaros COPO cars when they were new. He could listen to an engine and tell you which piston had a miss and most of the time, why it had a miss.
Don