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Post by Mr.409 on Oct 27, 2015 13:52:18 GMT -5
I bought this as a daily driver in Summer. After some rebuilding, it's now "finished" (Well, these never are done, right?) and ready to be driven again. When I bought it, it was lowered and it had 16" wheels with low profile tires on it... Not good. Exhaust was too loud, that 151 Cid Four Banger sounded like a rally car when I bought this.  It had also a wide black stripe painted to the hood, top and tailgate so some modifying had to be done to get it look right. I started by raising the suspension by changing lowered front spindles to original and removing lowering blocks from between rear axle and leaf springs. Wheels and tires were changed as well. Then I added some underbody coating to chassis and built new exhaust pipe. Last I painted those areas white where that black stripe was. Bumpers and grille were painted silver, too. Now it looks like this, almost ready for Finland's snowy winter.     This car has a 151 Cid GM "Iron Duke" inline four under the hood and a 5 Speed manual trans. Engine is pretty much untouched which is a good thing for sure. And so far it works just like it should. |
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Post by fordrodnkustom on Oct 27, 2015 18:08:27 GMT -5
Looks like you built a good reliable truck. Returning the suspension to stock specs insures the basic versatility it was designed for. Good job and good luck with it.
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Post by wylee on Oct 28, 2015 7:05:03 GMT -5
real models are fun too...
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Post by coyotecrunch on Oct 29, 2015 10:02:26 GMT -5
From what you described to this - MUCH BETTER!! This is how this should look! Awesome job!!  |
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Post by Mr.409 on Oct 29, 2015 16:57:24 GMT -5
Thanks Guys! I like working on 1:1 cars a lot, too and this is the second one that I have rebuilt this year. Well, of course it's not fully rebuilt, but still pretty much work went into it (And to the '60 Impala, too). Returning the suspension back to an original setting was definitely one of the first things to do. I've never liked lowering cars unless we're talking about an Old School style Custom or Hot Rod...And I wouldn't count this in either category.  I agree that it looks much better like this and I don't have to worry about every speed bump I see. And it's a lot of fun to drive while it has a Manual trans. That way you have to actually do something, not just push the throttle and lift up brakes when the light turns green. |
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Post by volvo544special65 on Oct 29, 2015 17:33:23 GMT -5
What happened to the van then? |
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Post by Mr.409 on Oct 30, 2015 3:33:46 GMT -5
The Van found a new home after the Racing season was over.  It was sad to sell it, as it was a very good car, but this Pickup is so much cheaper to drive that it's better for me. Now we need to find something else to be used as a Race Car Hauler once the Van is sold... We've been looking at those old buses that most of the guys use. Maybe one of them would be good. |
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Post by volvo544special65 on Oct 30, 2015 13:37:49 GMT -5
I can understand you, sure the van was a bit cooler IMO, but I understand that it might be much cheaper to run a S10 with the 4 banger...... At least it is one of the more interesting ways to run a four and still have an american postwar car..... Also, it seems very clean for a 1st gen S10. I hope that it works better than the "cheap winterbeater" I bought last year (2001 MB C180 wagon), I have spent over 22K SEK on it now, how it did thank me for that? By opening a totally unexplainable hole in the plastic gas tank so it was pouring gasoline all over the road.... Well, I could score one of the five gas tanks available in Swedish junkyards for way too much money, and now I just have to wait for it to arrive from the southern parts of the country, and then.....remove the whole rear suspension assembly to swap the tank. Yay. |
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Post by Mr.409 on Nov 7, 2015 7:23:00 GMT -5
Yep, it's true that the Van definitely was cooler than this, but luckily this is not bad either. So far it has been working very nicely, I've driven maybe about 1000 kilometers with it after it got done. I hope it will work as nicely in the future as well. Wow, sounds like your Winterbeater has been keeping you busy! It's never fun to repair daily drivers/winter beaters as you said, but hopefully it'll work a bit better in the future! |
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Post by volvo544special65 on Nov 7, 2015 10:06:13 GMT -5
Yeah, I've always been sceptical to buy cars from the wrong side of the milennium bug but I got it too cheap to resist, and the previous owner had repaired about everything on it and finally got tired so I thought that now possibly nothing can break, everything's new on this car.... Guess I was wrong..... Maybe it will be cheaper and quicker to restore my Willys Jeep than to repair the C180, and that one is of course too simple to get any big breakdowns at all, but..........the heating is a bit bad I think.... |
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Post by Mr.409 on Nov 8, 2015 5:06:58 GMT -5
Oh well, I've heard that same story quite a few times from many friends. I'm sure it's not fun when a car that should be perfectly fine turns out being in need of serious repairing. That has never happened to me yet, but I wouldn't be too surprised if it happened some time... Yep, it might be true that Willys Jeep can't be considered as a warm car in the winter ! Otherwise I believe it should be a good car. |
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Post by Mr.409 on Jan 2, 2016 11:07:33 GMT -5
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Post by fordrodnkustom on Jan 2, 2016 14:48:52 GMT -5
Now it looks like a truck!
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Post by Mr.409 on Jan 2, 2016 16:47:41 GMT -5
You're right, I think it looks a lot better now! And now when next summer is here and I can swap the regular tires on, I'll install a bit taller tires on front too, as before those fronts were much smaller than rears. Now when I put tires that are about the same size on both front and rear, it should look pretty much as good as it does now...Even though those chrome wheels are not as nice as the black steelies. |
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Post by Mr.409 on Aug 1, 2016 15:05:16 GMT -5
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It had also a wide black stripe painted to the hood, top and tailgate so some modifying had to be done to get it look right.
I agree that it looks much better like this and I don't have to worry about every speed bump I see.
It was sad to sell it, as it was a very good car, but this Pickup is so much cheaper to drive that it's better for me. Now we need to find something else to be used as a Race Car Hauler once the Van is sold... We've been looking at those old buses that most of the guys use. Maybe one of them would be good.
It's an interweb thing.....