El Camino I built for my Dad...

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You guys made my day! It's a '72. I wrote a whole story about the build I'd show you, but it's on another forum and I don't want to get the boot!

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https://youtu.be/OroWTZRZGBw

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Curious how you knew about the horsepower and where I painted it?

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Cool, my very own stalker or someone who can read. I'm going with the stalker!

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This was a bottom to the top garage build. Took me a little over four years and a few thousand hours of labor. Motor is a .060 over 454 with AFR 335 heads, Dart intake, Isky roller cam (256/266@.050, .700" lift), Art Carr reverse manual valve body TH400 w/3800 rpm converter, 4:11 gears and 30" drag radials. Exhaust is dual 3" with 40 series Flowmasters. It's a freakin' brute!! I stripped EVERY panel to bare metal and after countless hours blocking, painted it in my garage in a homemade "paint booth." Dad turned 79 today and he still acts like the "World's Oldest 15 Year Old!"

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It's just a street car, never have put it on the track. The brakes are factory Chevrolet and they have no problem stopping the car from it's many high-speed blasts!

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The brakes are definitely ok for how the car gets used. As far as the paint goes, it was really rough. I ended up finding a passenger fender and both doors because they were so rough. It took me about a year stripping every panel down to bare metal and blocking the car four separate times. The actual paint job took me about week and a half. Color sanding and rubbing it out took took another two weeks. Once that was done, I took out the pinstriping brushes and spent three days pinstriping the flames. LOTS of work...

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Thanks guys!