Well my friends, you saw it here first. My Chevelle. Finished.
 

Hey folks, at long last after every trial and hardship imaginable, the Chevelle lives and breathes!

It has been a long journey with a lot of setbacks and problems. Plenty of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into it, as with any personal project. But just over a year into our frame-off build that started and ended in our 3 car garage, it's finished. Well, it's complete. :) It'll never be finished, finished.

In fact, next step will be a trip back to the body shop. The car is going to SEMA again this year, but this time, the body will be perfect and we will be able to drive it in. As some of you know, the body work done on the car was sub-par and the paint has some flaws, so we will be getting the body and paint straightened out over the summer.

But for now, me and my dad are able to stand back from it and say "there she is. Done."

I'll be giving a better account of how it runs and drives soon, but we are still tuning it a little bit and making sure there are no bugs. But I can say this, it sounds amazing and from the little we've seen, will have plenty of power. My dad lit the tires by just blipping the throttle...so it should be fun!

Anyway, enough talk, here are the pics!

http://www.carsbykris.com/Chevelle_Small/DSCF0376.JPG

http://www.carsbykris.com/Chevelle_Small/DSCF0372.JPG

http://www.carsbykris.com/Chevelle_Small/DSCF0381.JPG

And the rest can be seen here (even the not-so-great pics:)

http://www.carsbykris.com/Chevelle_Small/

Enjoy!

Kris

NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICCCCEEEEEEEEEEE




oh i am so tearing apart my front clip tomorrow with the drive from that pic



amazing car. simply amazing. :thumbsup:

That's awesome Kris. Glad to see it on the road. Now, before you get that paint fixed, make sure to give it a good thrashing before the paint is perfect!

Mike

Looks great Kris! :D Glad to hear things are finally going well on the project. It's been a long journey.

I'm still drooling.......

sweet
 

Looks great Kris!! :eek: :thumbsup:

I really hope this car will boost the popularity of the underappreciated 71 and 72 models. The 70 is still the most popular and will always stand as the poster child for the Chevelle name, but I think that this will make people see the 71 as a car that can look really great too.

Kris

very cool
 

kris

i bet it feels good to have the chevelle driveable and get to enjoy...
i cant wait to be able to get into the rambler and drive


IM HAPPPY FOR YA :thumbsup:

RADRAMBLER

Very nice.

-Chris

Congrats Kris,

It is alway a pleasure to take the car out for the first time, all those dark hours really pays off.

Enjoy it and have fun, that's why we do this.

Good Work!

Jan