Since there was some interest in the pub in this wildhair idea I have, I'm going to post up the build so far. May not get updated often since I don't get a lot of time for projects, but I really would like to have this thing mobile and under it's own power next summer.
It all started when I was on the road, bored in a hotel room and randomly surfing the web. I found a Pontiac OHC six on ebay for $300, with a make offer option. The seller was claiming he would scrap it if it did not sell this time.
It was just the base, 67 230 with the 1bbl engine, not the more powerful and desirable Sprint 4bbl version, but it's still a cool looking motor and I thought it would be neat to build a stand for it as garage art and just be able to fire it up.
I sent him an offer of $200, and he accepted. He was only about a half hour from where I was staying, so I drove right over and picked it up.
Got an extra cam and housing, and an extra distributor with it too.
When I got home I powerwashed it, it was surprisingly clean under all the dust!
I started getting a lot of questions as to what I had planned to put it in, and I really hadn't thought about it. Mentioned that I would like to put it in an early Chevy van, since I had never seen that done.
Well, a friend of mine out in Six Lakes called me up and said he had a 65 that he was originally going to build for his wife, but had since found an original Dodge Street Van she preferred.... and he needed to make some room. We agreed on $400 and I went out to pick it up.
Towed it home with the 95 F150... got about 2 miles from home and the clutch pushrod broke on the truck, had to get the trailer towed home, and then the pickup, by one of my son's friends. Next morning, bought a new clutch master cylinder, grabbed the push rod and installed it, 15 minutes later I was unloading the prize.... that winch in the bed came in handy....
And so it begins!
It all started when I was on the road, bored in a hotel room and randomly surfing the web. I found a Pontiac OHC six on ebay for $300, with a make offer option. The seller was claiming he would scrap it if it did not sell this time.
It was just the base, 67 230 with the 1bbl engine, not the more powerful and desirable Sprint 4bbl version, but it's still a cool looking motor and I thought it would be neat to build a stand for it as garage art and just be able to fire it up.
I sent him an offer of $200, and he accepted. He was only about a half hour from where I was staying, so I drove right over and picked it up.
Got an extra cam and housing, and an extra distributor with it too.
When I got home I powerwashed it, it was surprisingly clean under all the dust!
I started getting a lot of questions as to what I had planned to put it in, and I really hadn't thought about it. Mentioned that I would like to put it in an early Chevy van, since I had never seen that done.
Well, a friend of mine out in Six Lakes called me up and said he had a 65 that he was originally going to build for his wife, but had since found an original Dodge Street Van she preferred.... and he needed to make some room. We agreed on $400 and I went out to pick it up.
Towed it home with the 95 F150... got about 2 miles from home and the clutch pushrod broke on the truck, had to get the trailer towed home, and then the pickup, by one of my son's friends. Next morning, bought a new clutch master cylinder, grabbed the push rod and installed it, 15 minutes later I was unloading the prize.... that winch in the bed came in handy....
And so it begins!