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Originally Posted by Flash68
Very cool Bryan. Looks like a nice car and an even better family memory.
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I wrote up a pretty cool diary (my version of a blog before there were blogs) as I was building the car. I was hosting it on a home PC which is not up and running anymore, so I don't have it available online. It was pretty cool how many people were following it back in the day before forums.
For anyone who never saw any of them, here are a couple of pictures of what I started with. My father has started building the car, even painted the body, and then decided to pull the LT5 / ZF6 that were from a ZR1 Vette and install them in his 57 Chevy. The car sat for several years like this until I bought it from him and brought the project back to life.
Yes, he had cut out the firewall:
In case you couldn't get the first perspective. I did a lot of repair work to this car, more than it was probably worth...
The donor patch. The original was long gone:
