My kids first car

[trbo355]

Check out my 15 year old son AJ's first car we have been working on for a year and a half! It started as a 300 dollar neglected 70 Chevelle and with a crapload of spare parts i had laying around, has turned into a 70's themed hot rod. She's sportin a tunnel rammed 350 with purple hornies, a 4 speed manual tranny hooked to a lakewood ladder ber equipped posi rearend.
It took 15 cans of Krylon semi flat black to paint it and every time i look at it, i want to smoke a bowl of weed. LOL

[Evosol]

No turbo???;)

[Northwest outlaw]

cool deal father and son cars are cool.

[yay]

i still had a huffy bycicle at 15...

[2bad]

Awesome car! wish i could find a deal like that

[silver_echo]

definitely a cool car... also, i know without even looking too closely that young man will take care of that car since it already has a good quantity of his blood, sweat, and tears in it...

[trbo355]

Heres some pix of it when we first got it. Yep it was pretty hurtin! If you only wanna pay 300 bucks for a 70 chevelle its time to do some dumpster diving. LOL

[trbo355]

definitely a cool car... also, i know without even looking too closely that young man will take care of that car since it already has a good quantity of his blood, sweat, and tears in it...

Oh yeah you make a kid scrape undercoating and rust and sand all that crappy dented sheetmetal and they earn a certain respect for the car! How many kids had a cool car just handed to them and 6 months later its trashed?
Our project so far has cost about 4000 bucks and he knows i want every penny back over the next 5 years or so!

[Evosol]

Oh yeah you make a kid scrape undercoating and rust and sand all that crappy dented sheetmetal and they earn a certain respect for the car! How many kids had a cool car just handed to them and 6 months later its trashed?
Our project so far has cost about 4000 bucks and he knows i want every penny back over the next 5 years or so!

Good way to teach work ethic and instill character in a young buck!

[twotons]

looks good AJ and Marty, How does it run????????

[trbo355]

looks good AJ and Marty, How does it run????????

No brakes or seat mounts yet so i havent been able to beat the hell out of it yet! The rings are finally loosening up and its getting a cool lopey idle going already. LOL

[gixslayer]

very very cool

[trbo355]

very very cool

Thanks man!

[siege racing]

Holy shit that thing has come a long way he has done a very good job I wish mine looked half as good lol.

[trbo355]

Holy shit that thing has come a long way he has done a very good job I wish mine looked half as good lol.Thanks for the compliment! Its sure been a lot of work but so far total investment is less than 4000 bucks.

[Gsolo]

is this the one you just picked up a few years ago?? WOW good work

[trbo355]

is this the one you just picked up a few years ago?? WOW good work

Yep its been a couple of years since i got it. For a while it sat at Shelleys Automotive in their field and then i gave it to my kid for his 13th birthday. At least my kids a gearhead like all of us because most kids would think they got screwed getting a rusted out hulk for a birthday present! LOL
It took him a while to get the enthusiasm going once he started scraping undercoating and rust. He realized how much work really goes into a restoration but once things started getting painted and looking new again and could see real progress, he got into it a lot more.
Now he's dying to work on it every chance he gets!

[jbracefan1977]

good job!!! wow! that's the way to teach kids these days. cheers! :)

[siege racing]

good job!!! wow! that's the way to teach kids these days. cheers! :)
I second that

[trbo355]

Well we got it on the road and made it to the NAPA car show today and had a good time! Then we took the plunge with a brand new finicky car and decided to put it to the test. We drove it to my parents house in Davenport! It made it there and back fine but we got stuck in the rain with no driver side window, no heater and no wipers. LOL

Thank god for RainX! The kid was lovin every minute of it but we decided the purple hornies are WAAAY too loud for everyday use since were both deaf now : )

[56-210sedan]

I have nothing but total respect for a father who takes the time to do a project together like you and your son are doing, First Class:cool:. Tell AJ he has a awesome ride there:bigthumbs:.

[trbo355]

I have nothing but total respect for a father who takes the time to do a project together like you and your son are doing, First Class:cool:. Tell AJ he has a awesome ride there:bigthumbs:.

Thanks! Its been a pretty fun project and the kid learned a LOT about every aspect of a car from mechanical to bodywork. It sure does good burnouts and its pretty much sideways every time i drive it. LOL I gotta calm down or im gonna break the saginaw 4 speed.
We have TONS of good saginaw 3 speeds laying around and one of those is going in so we can full bore powershift it till the teeth fall off the gears like dandruff. 3 speeds are just as good of boat anchors with or without teeth on the gears : )

[trbo355]

Well we raced the kids Chevelle last night and cranked off a blistering 13.97 on street tires! LOL It just cracked 100 mph so the kid got to join the 100 mph club and get a sticker. Im ready to bolt on some slicks and drop the clutch at 6000 rpm to see what breaks.
It sure was fun racing a 4 speed and catching rubber on the shifts! The kid just got his driver permit today so i guess that means the roads are no longer safe. Heh heh

[nighthawk15]

That's pretty badass! By the way, I'm 90% sure I saw you last night. I was the long haired kid who asked you how fast it runs. Man I had some seriously for shit launches last night, be happy that you broke 13s! I was running high 14s in a car that should be at least upper 13s:rofl:

[2bad]

I'm sure i saw you out there last night, car looks as good in person as it does in pictures!

[trbo355]

That's pretty badass! By the way, I'm 90% sure I saw you last night. I was the long haired kid who asked you how fast it runs. Man I had some seriously for shit launches last night, be happy that you broke 13s! I was running high 14s in a car that should be at least upper 13s:rofl:
Ok so that was you in the black Manual tranny camaro! Your car sure sounds cool going down the track. As long as you had fun on your first time out is all that matters. LOL
I was having a good time running low 14's since it reminded me of high school where your car makes more noise than speed! Ha ha! I thought it would run easy mid 13's but with only 3.36 rear gears it was trapping at 4300 rpm in 4th. LAME.

[Gsolo]

that sounds like more than enough of a first car :D high school days?? some of us STILL make more noise than power lmao

hey Marty, I still got that M21 if the saginaws all strip out ;)

Throw 3.73 in it...see if the kid complains about going deaf driving on the freeway lol

[trbo355]

Wow, i guess my kids Chevelle is in the new issue of car Craft! Haven't seen the issue yet so i dont know much yet but im betting its in the readers rides section. I bet he's gonna be in automotive heaven tomorrow morning when he finds out! I think thats pretty neat since thats a lasting memory for a 15 1/2 year old kid to have of his first car and the pride of building it himself.
When we were building it, he had his doubts whether anyone would "get the look" of an old 70's hotrod. I think he was having problems envisioning the finished product but (of all things) once the bumpers went on, in his eyes, that was when it went from a pile of rusty parts to being a CAR once again. From that point on, i'd catch him staring at it from different angles, rowing the shifter thru the gears with the engine off and stuff like that.
It reminded me of being his age and the thrill of working on your OWN car. Those were the days before you realized what a freakin money pit this hobby would turn into! Ha ha!

[whe3ls]

thats pretty cool. im going to have to give that issue a look throu @ work tomorrow