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Old 10-12-2010, 06:36 PM
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Originally Posted by fletcherscustoms View Post
Heres a little project we have kept behind the scenes and been slowly working on and finally finished. Planned to debut it this week on the roudtourexpress.com challenge, but had a starter issue that kept it out of the spotlight. Car is project we put together to sale to fund some other shop projects. It honestly gets no nicer than this car. All orginal GM sheetmetal, not spec of rust anywhere and has never had any repairs done to it. Hell even the underside floor pans and painted, cut and buffed. Car is pristine and will make someone a very nice show car and driver. We spared nothing on this car.

Car is a original 425HP numbers matching 396 with its original 4 speed and 12 bolt, all rebuilt. Motor is a stock rebuild with a set of roller rockers and a little hotter cam. Other than that its stock.

Specs:

Exterior:
-All original GM metal, laser straight
-All new GM chrome and trim, no aftermarket stuff here. Lots of it is the original pieces that were refrubed. no rubbers, etc, etc
-All new glass
-Halogen headlights with built in turn signals
-New emblems, etc, etc

interior-
-Custom leather Black leather interior with REd stitching covers the stock interior pieces-
-All new panels everywhere
-New ACC custom carpet
-New 4 speed console with clock
-new hurst shifter
-Covans dash insert with Autometer Guages (all electric), Speedo,tach, temp, oil pressure, voltage, fuel
-new headliner
-SS floormats
-Trunk is fully carpeted
-Everything under carpets covered in bedliner material

-Wheels
17x8 front and 17x9 rear

Drivetrain
-Original 425HP, 396, complee rebuild with a hotter cam and set of roller rockers
-Custom APS 4150 Holley carb
-Hooker Super comp headers Ceramic coated
-MSD 7AL, coil and wires (box and coil under dash)
-Original 4 speed, complete rebuild
-original 12 bolt, 3.73, Detroit True trac, 31 spline
-Full 3 dual exhaust with "h" pipe, all custom ceramic coated with Flowmaster 40 series ceramic coated mufflers
-Be Cool aluminum radiator with dual 12" electric fans
-March Front Runner serpentine setup with polished A/C, alternator and PS (installing now)
-Vintage air GEN VI kit underdash unit (installing this week)
-Tons of chrome and stainless
-New GM style wiring harness, custom ran, no exposed wires under hood
-4 wheel 11" disc brakes
-SSBC polished master cylinder and booster
-2" hotchkis drop coils
-Plated and boxed rear control arms

Custom touches
-Underside of car is painted, cut and buffed just like the top side
-Frame and all suspension pieces completly powdercoated
-Stainless gas tank, powder coated
-Custom bent stainless fuel and brake lines, that are all polished to mirror finish
-Ceramic Coated full exhaust
-Custom leather interior
-Everything on this car is either painted, polished, or chromed
-Motor and trans are painted red, rearend and driveshaft powder coated black

Possible on the nicest Restomod Chevelles on the face of the planet. Car is for sale and will be listed in the For Sale section shortly. I'll continue to update the build list and remember more stuff.

Here are a few more pics there are another 50 or so on my site and I got another couple hundred I can email. Check my site out www.fletcherscustoms.com or email me [email protected]






Chad, Are you sure its not the 375hp 396? In 67' I am pretty sure the 425hp version was a 427. As far as I know the only 425hp 396 was built in 1965.

Either way it would have been more valuable left in STOCK condition. IMHO

Are the first 3 numbers of VIN 136?

Last edited by TimeWarpF100; 10-12-2010 at 06:44 PM.
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