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The El Camino made it out of the shop and down to the trim shop today so that means that yhe small projects will staret up again. This afternoon I grabbed a small Weaver manual jack to start cleaning up

Well folks, The El Camino made its way into the trim shop this morning so for updates it might be a while before I have something good to report. On the down side the A/C didn't get charged seems like the horn wire was off the horn and laying on the condenser when we were wiring up the truck and...

Took this shot of the BPG and thought I’d share it

Milestone today:: The truck is at the alignment shop and they will also charge the A/C and adjust the brakes tomorrow then it will be trailers to the trim shop

The white dividers on the top section would be very difficult to paint evenly so I sent that section out to be powder coated The red shell is painted the cream color

Taking a break from the El Camino I found some time to freshen up an old Tom's Peanut vending machine I didn't care for the color so I changed it to a light cream color I have the top part out to be powder coated and will send 4 of the panels over to my sign painter to add the signage to it

Well guys you are all wondering what caused the failure. Well the oil gauge wasn't working because the motor had no oil in it. Top my defense: the motor was fired up several years ago after I had it rebuilt and everything was fine. When I tipped it off the bench that I was rolling around in the...

Back in business. The motor is back in the truck. Now it's ready to go to the trim shop.

I'm not a heavy footed type guy, and I like the looks of the old school Big Block filling my engine compartment plus it sounds much meaner lol Still waiting on the return of the motor

And now for the bad news When I started up the motor back a couple weeks ago the dash gauges weren’t working so I didn’t know that I had no oil pressure and when I started the truck on Monday morning all the gauges were working except the oil pressure gauge With a bit of investigation the motor...

I’ve spent the last few days assembling the El Camino. The front is pretty much together and the rear is complete with the tail lights and 3rd brake lite working

Had a lot of help today so didn't get alot done but did manage to get the truck running. We drove it out into the yard for a test drive Then we pulled it back into the shop and mounted and aligned the hood. It's starting to look like a real hot rod

Well the assembly has finally started. Got the grille and headlight doors on and aligned then went to work on the front bumper. I don't like the looks of the El Camino turn signals so I opted for the chevelle front bumper and the square turn signals. Still needs a little fenissing but it's...

Here is the big base mounted to my trolley light and the pole on the Foster freeze sign

I needed a base for a nickel slot machine that I picked up and restored last year. I needed something heavy enough to withstand the pulling of the bandits arm so I went on the hunt for something with a large base. I came up with a Mobil curb sign base Next I found a broken vintage light...

Thanks guys I got it all together today and set in the BPG

Spent this morning masking and painting the base for my slot machine that I restored last year. I'll be putting the bottom of the base on tomorrow and mounting the slot machine then this project will be finished.

I used my floor jack and a friend to balance the door while I spun the bolts into place. I spent about an hour aligning it today

Well Bob The work started today. The doors and tailgate were painted early last week so I could start polishing them today. With the doors color sanded and buffed out it was time to hang them and the left door is on but needs aligning