Last Saturday was prom night for my oldest son Jeff and his girl Aubrie. Spent Friday night and Saturday getting the old silver slug ready for him to take Aubrie to the prom. It'd been since sometime in early 2008 that I had the car out so it was good to get back at working on & driving it. I need to drive it more often than I do. Just never seem to have time to enjoy it.
Cool! I bet it made his night. My granny let me borrow her z-28 for my prom, definitely made the night that much more fun!
Great picture, Lon! As I told a buddy of mine, these old cars are meant to be enjoyed...and as I told the kids before they left the house [and being a dad I'm sure you'll agree!], the "priceless" and "irrecplacable" object is NOT the car! Anyway, below is what my daughter and her date [as well as another couple] took to their prom this year...[it was supposed to be the Yellow Sub, but on the test drive the night before prom I found out a 427 bbc won't run with a 3 piece camshaft :af:]
SWEET! Did your daughter drive? I didn't worry too much about the drive since it was a short one and I had arranged a police escort to try to eliminate a nutty distracted driver for him. Car didn't stay in the parking lot long as I brought it home when the wife and I came back. Left him his Cavalier to come home in. It didn't bother Aubrie to go in it as her uncle has a pretty awesome pro-touring '76 Trans Am and she is a car show goer. These were in the lot as well....
Awesome! Nice 72 Gran Torino Sport. I didnt go to my prom, my dates parents wouldnt let her go with me, something about a bad influence. o No: So, I cruised Gratiot instead. :moonu:
Robert, I can't believe you forced your daughter to date someone that has to look like Don Yenko. I know you are Bowtie guy through and through, we know, really we know!!! But, is this not taking it over the top??? I can see the conversation went like this. That's part of the deal kid, "If you look like Don, you get to drive the car." "Now, lets start working on copying his voice!" Jim
I love seeing that there are still several kids there that appreciate the old iron, Lon! My daughter didn't drive, her boyfriend did...it's only about 5 miles or so to town from our house, so I took a couple pictures, made sure it would start, and then walked back to the shop and started pulling the engine out of the Camaro, again :af:. I went to the school later to pick up the car, and was told that I couldn't take it yet as all of the other kids hadn't seen it, so I had to leave without it and then come back right before prom started! First time I had driven the car in YEARS, as it's been pretty much a show pony, and it always ran like crap...but I took the chambered exhaust off and threw a quickie x-pipe and dual race muffler setup on it [still manifolds] and it's like a different car now, LOT'S better... Ha! It was actually my daughter's idea...she ran jr. dragsters for a couple of years and has even taken our Yenko Deuce drag car down the track before, but I had no idea if she'd even be interested in it. She actually stopped by the shop whenever I was being towed in the Camaro back to the shop after breaking the camshaft in front of the house, and I could tell she was upset because she thought she was gonna miss out on the cool factor. Fortunately for her, we had a spare! :TU: :Brow:
That's so cool, Nichole wanted me to let her drive the Chevelle up to Pontiac for some shin dig with her boyfriend. I declined. Felt bad- but 4.56 gears on an 1 1/2 hours trip on the freeway. Not knowing where to get good gas for trip home... Sorry kid
I had a spare as well as I wasn't sure I was going to get 2 of the carbs to stop leaking. With less than an hour to go I was seriously thinking I'd have to dig the Challenger out for him to take. Thanks always to Tom Cannon for his help with my carbs over the years and he helped me through text messaging with this problem.
:TU:Lon, I didn't think you guys were going to make it. Somehow it always comes down to the last minute. ---------- Post added at 07:43 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:39 AM ---------- And Rob, how does one do such a terrible thing to such a little defenseless camshaft? Is your tunnel out of whack or what? You got a case of the bent block? Not to get too far off subject, but what gives man? ---------- Post added at 07:43 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:43 AM ----------
My daughter drove the GSx for her best friends wedding. Groomsman thought he was going to drive.... NOT!
I told him to stop practicing for the Byron world champion wheel stand contests. It's hard on the camshafts! http://www.carcraft.com/eventcovera...y_world_power_wheelstand_contest/viewall.html Jim
That's awesome. I know how nervous I was driving my brother's 3 year old IROC to prom (aah the late 80's). I can't imagine driving a 40 year old Road Runner or Yenko car. The conversation with my bro in 1989 went something like this: -If you drink and drive my car, I'll kill you. -If any of your a@#hole buddies get in my car, I'll kill you. -If you scratch it and it and you aren't totalled, I'll kill you. -If I found out you were hot-dogging in it, I'll kill you. -If you drive anywhere besides the prom and immediately back to my house, I'll kill you. Aaaah brotherly love. I had my first '68 GTO and the first two Dudek Hemi cars in my wedding party. Edit-I think the GTX was still sporting a 440 6 pack and *gasp* headers at that time.
Lerum's "theory" is as good as anything I can come up with right now. Anyway, we switched blocks last fall after wiping the lobes on nearly 1/2 dozen cams over the course of a couple of years [a couple were Crane/blueprint cams], first time out with new block we made a couple passes @ Memphis the night before last Thanksgiving and it ran like absolute crap so I shoved it in the corner and pouted for a few months, until I got it out to ready it for prom. Was running it through the gears on the road in front of our house and it simply clicked off...broke camshaft into 3 pieces, with one piece having fallen down on the crankshaft and standing upright when we pulled the pan off, remaining pieces slid out of the bearings perfectly. Probably didn't have 2 miles of drive time on it, but it sure sounded good on the dyno. Bent a few valves, but amazingly all of the other hard parts [aside from the camshaft, lol] have nary a mark on them...
Rob... you know if you buy the cam outright, instead of 3 equal payments, they would of given you a whole one.:bla: Seriously though, I feel for ya.. what a terrible last couple years you have had.. Just plain awful luck.
