My 76' and I

[1_Car_Guy]

Entry 3: 2/15/2022

I knew for years that someday I'd be switching out the entire driveline of the car but had no where near the funds to purchase what I wanted. So instead of buying a motor and transmission I decided to turn my attention to the chassis and rear end.

So in late 2010 (as soon as I got out of the Army and purchased the car from my father) I moved it to my uncles shop. I was going to start school in January 2011 so I had about 3 months to work with. I had planned on doing a simple mini tub but decided to expand out the project. Went on do to an 8 point cage, Strange rear end, Ladder Bars, Sub Frame Connectors, 3 inch exhaust, new clutch, rear brakes, 11 inch cragars, BF Goodrich Drag Radials.

Image upload limit is 10 images, so here are photos of the Mini Tub and Ladder Bars. This was in the Fall/Winter of 2010.

[1_Car_Guy]

Entry 4: 2/15/2022

The whole plan after the mini tub and backhalf projects were complete was to get the car running again, take it back to my apartment in Buffalo and enjoy it.

Before any of that could happen though I needed to get the interior back together at least to a point where it was somewhat respectable. My uncle had the idea of modifying the rear seat and rear interior panels to work with the mini tub and ladder bar channels.

I'm not an interior guy but I trusted him and this how it all ended up. At this point I was pretty committed to school, working and chasing girls so the car went on the back burner. I probably put about 1,000 miles on it from 2011 to 2015.

The engine and front suspension were tired. The old 4 speed was on its last leg so it was really just a Friday night date night ride. It did have 3 inch exhaust, headers and magnaflow mufflers - sounded great but it was a pretty tired powertrain. It would stay in this form until late 2015.

[1_Car_Guy]

Entry 5: 2/16/2022

I graduated college in 2013 and eventually got tired of renting apartments and always having to hunt down relatives or friends for a place to store the car. In 2015 I bought a house with a 1.5 car garage and finally had a place to store the car. In all honesty the garage was just a large wooden shed, but it would later serve the purpose of the place where I would tear the car down to a rolling chassis.

In the fall of 2015, I did a complete tear down. Bagged and tagged everything and moved anything that I intended on keeping into the spare bedroom of my house. Somethings got stored in the garage but for the most part everything was stored in my spare bedroom. The girlfriend was not a fan.

Sold the original motor, original transmission, heater core, front core support and front sub frame over that winter.

By March of 2016 the tear down was complete, and I had everything bagged, tagged, or stored away in a somewhat orderly fashion.
Ended up taking out a personal unsecured loan and proceeded to buy a DSE powder coated front sub frame with adjustable shocks, sub frame connectors, LS engine mounts, firewall heater core block off panel, Holly T-56 transmission tunnel hump, pro-touring F-body solid body mounts, and a Tanks Inc. EFI tank kit.

In the Summer of 2016 I sent her off to have the undercarriage, interior pans, trunk pans, and firewall professionally media blasted and painted.

[camcojb]

[EVO]

Love the storage in the spare bedroom part! I get in trouble for that all the time.

Great thread, watching with interest.

I have a '70 and a '77 T/A and plan on starting complete rebuilds soon.

Evan Q.