Budgets...<span style="font-style: italic">budgets</span>???...let's not talk about budgets right now. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/eek.gif[/img]
As far as the cast of characters;
Bodyguy #1 is a longtime friend of Bodyguy #2, and Bodyguy #2 is an older brother of one of my longtime friends. Bodyguy #2 also owns the killer green Challenger posted earlier in the thread. He and #1 did the restoration on it.
Just to break up the monotony of this thread a little bit;
My friend (mentioned above) and I built this Pro Street `67 Chevy II a while back; he did all the bodywork (natch) while I helped with the drivetrain and some of the fab work. His brother (mentioned above) squirted the color on it.
(don't ask me why he painted the engine yellow, I tried to talk him out of it lol)
Fully hand-built chassis/frame: 2X3 front rails with a Pinto cradle and rack&pinion steering system, 2X4 rear rails with Alston ladder bars and coil-overs. The engine was a .060" over 10-1 427: ported open chamber oval ports, Crane flat tappet cam, Weiand Team G intake, 1050 9375 Holley (prepped by yours truly), hand fabbed stainless 2 1/4" headers (<span style="font-style: italic">way</span> too big for this engine, but a much larger engine was being planned for the car later and the notion of building 2 sets of headers wasn't too appealing), 400 turbo with a Coan 4000 converter, 9" Ford with a locker and a 4.57 screw.
Yeah, it was quick. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/naughty.gif[/img]
Friend sold the car shortly after its completion (suffering from a <span style="font-style: italic">severe</span> case of project burn-out), went somewhere up to northern Ohio, then wound up in Florida where it was being listed for sale again on eBay.
No idea where it is now...kind'a miss that car.