Introducing........RAT’S NEST

[R68GTO]

It will be restored to Lemans Blue. Plan to use vinyl to do the Rat's Nest thing.

[KnoxvillePig]

Very Nice!! Thanks for posting progress pics!! It was great talking with you this AM.

[cook_dw]

Very smart move on using vinyl wrap. Best of both worlds.

[R68GTO]

Worked on my original 9204 brake booster this week. Goal was to get it ready to ship out for re-plating. Of course it had a large amount of the gloss black paint on it so I went to town on it with some citrus stripper. It took 3 or 4 cycles of stripper and scraping with a plastic putty knife but it all came off exposing the original plating. Included a pic of the pedal connector and RBW pin as it also looks to be the original unit.

[R68GTO]

It's been a little while since I posted an update....been busier than a cat covering $hit these days!
I found a correctly dated 512 4 bolt main block and a matching set of 291 casting heads. Block is dated Sept. 8, 1969 and the heads are Sept. 11, 1969 so about 2 weeks before the build date of the car. The long block is built to stock spec.s with all the correct internals and was broke in on a stand. It will be a while before it lands in the subframe.

Went to a swap meet this weekend and met up with the son of the 2nd owner (Rat's Nest creator) again. He shared with me a story about the car's M22 biting the dust during one of the runs BITD. His Dad sent it to Doug Nash for a rebuild. Doug found the input shaft had a slight twist to it so that was replaced. When it was time to pay for the rebuild, his Dad was tight on money so he paid for the rebuild by giving Doug Nash his son's (guy I'm talking to) train set! Apparently Doug Nash was a model train collector in addition to an transmission guru!

Picked up a set of 1969 license plates at the swap meet, thought the MN suffix was appropriate

Spent some time today working on my 3.5" Fenton Gyros that will end up on the car. They're in pretty good shape with just a couple of nicks on wheel. I have more polishing to do, but am pleased with how it's coming out

[R68GTO]

According to NCRS, 9/26/69 is the day my car was built. It was a Friday back then.....probably why they missed the window track mounting nut on the rear drivers side qtr window
Here's a shot in her birthday suit along with a couple of shots just playing around with the engine mockup. Whatcha think.....Stock or Super Stock?

[ZLP955]

Very cool plate! And the engine and wheels look great too - nice work.

[big gear head]

That's some great work that you are doing. I'm guessing it won't be ready for SCR22. Maybe you can have it at SCR23? Are you going to come this year anyway?

[R68GTO]

Thanks Freddie. I'm hoping to finish the car up this winter so it is ready for SCR23. I'm still on the fence if I'm going to make it this year or not, definitely would like to since it was so much fun last year.

[big gear head]

I think there are going to be some first timers there this year. Should be a good show again.