Super Chevy - Maple Grove

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

The SC-Maple Grove show was the normal! The bright spot for me was seeing a some nice big block novas there for the first time, including Stan Falenski's '69 Dusk Blue L78 which won 1st place in stock class. Bernies '69 Cortez Silver Camaro was the lone COPO car.

The requisite Yenko clone car was in attendance. This year's clone was a sad attempt at a Yenko Deuce Nova. The car was a black '71 Nova with some stripes/emblems, you can imagine how incorrect this thing was. I am glad that I did not take mine to the show, and then have to explain why its the real one!

But for every low point there is a high point, Joe Swezey found me a properly dated spare tire jack in the swap meet area for $25, and I found an untorn armrest pad for $10, - good deals!
Marlin

[68l30]

Marlin,what is the date on your jack?Is it on the hook,or just the mast itself? I have never seen a hook dated anything but 1968.I figured this was one shot deal only,and they never retooled for the following years.I have about a dozen of these out of 68-72 Novas.I'm not doubting your jack,just eager to learn more.


Steve

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

Steve;
My jack purchase was just the mast, and it was dated on one of the 'rivet' looking pieces on the slider mechanism. The date was 'A0', or January of '70 as I was told. The hooks that I have seen are also all dated '68, and are stamped 'CHEVY II' so that is what I plan to use as well.
M

[68l30]

Marlin,that's what I thought as well.Is your mast a "t" style or is it a hollow tube?I know there are several different suppliers of jacks (masts).


Steve

[Charley Lillard]

The Proper way to restore a Deuce.

[Charley Lillard]

What if I just send you two a can of "Fix a Flat"? Thats the way we properly Restore them out here. When we geat real picky we try to find Dated Fix a Flat.

[Edited by Charley Lillard (07-23-2001 at 06:13 PM).]

[Mr70]

Wait a minute,I'm confused.
I was told the original cans were white,not yellow.
Yellow cans came out in 1976,way after the 1970 White Deuce cans were released.
Thus not period correct.
I thought that picture looked odd.

[Denis]

Not so fast mr70. Note that the can is dated (i.e. '4-70') so it <u>must</u> be correct. Besides, Charley paid $280 on eBay for that thing.

PS: Charley, nice job posting the pic. When you save your .jpg files to disk, make sure you specify at least 50 on the compression scale. That fix-a-flat pic is 280K big, should be no more than 30-40K.

[Charley Lillard]

Mr 70 , you must be an Amatuer to have missed the Dated can. Coincidentally the can is dated about a month before the build date of the Deuce. Denis...I'm just soo happy to have figured out how to post a pic, now you want me to refine it ? Arrgh.

[Belair62]

There was some date coded NOS Pig Snot on e-bay recently which was only used in the 5th week of sept. 1970. Thereafter Fix-a-Flat was used exclusively. I heard the black paint on the can was a semi-gloss but this is still not proven.