What’d you buy?

[JohnC]

From a friend of a friend today, a mint '70 Chevelle console, new shift plate and seals and a new console harness, complete front disc brake setup with upper and lower control arms, big block coil springs and swaybar, and complete forward lamp harness, engine harness, sweep dash harness and rear harness for a '70... $150 for the lot!

You sunuvabitch….you stole that! Great buy.

 

[Shovelrick]

And going to a Great cause

 

[SSuperDave]

I can use the console down the road when I go to buckets, and needed the disc brakes and harnesses. He had a pair of '70 bumpers, rear with SS pad, copper radiator with shroud, brand new powdercoated driveshaft with new yokes and joints, but too short for my Elky, and a bunch of other misc items. I could get $350 for the console easy, but don't want to mess with the good karma that brought the stuff my way in the first place. I think he priced it low because he knew I would use it.

 

[Derek69SS]

I traded some stuff I didn't want for some cool Big Block parts. Old Weiand tunnel ram, some BB Hooker Super Comps for 65-70 Impala, vintage Cal Customs valve covers, and some other misc parts.

I'll probably sell the headers to my brother, keep the valve covers, and put the rest on Marketplace.

 

[1971Chevelle]

 

[kmakar]

I pray there's never a fire at your place.

 

[1971Chevelle]

I pray there's never a fire at your place.

It's not like you have seen in the movies:

 

[kmakar]

It's not like you have seen in the movies:

Wasn't for the rounds popping and someone getting hit, but the plastic shells melting and blowing hot plastic everywhere when all the powder going off.

When we were younger and dumber, we'd party at a place called "the stumps" (where the town crews dumped all the stumps and logs from around town) and while we were drinking beer on a Friday night, one numbnut decided to throw a box of shotgun shells in the bonfire and the hot plastic sprayed everywhere when the shells went off. Couple of girls got hurt and their boyfriends were not in a forgiving mood. Safe to say that guy never went back to the stumps under threats he'd be thrown in the fire.

 

[1971Chevelle]

Skip to about 3:10 in this video (unless you want to see all of the different rounds react to fire).

 

[kmakar]

Skip to about 3:10 in this video (unless you want to see all of the different rounds react to fire).

In a controlled experiment I can see how that'd work, but I can tell you first hand when the plastic is melting and the shell goes off, the melted plastic flies and burns if it hits skin.

 

[77cruiser]

Hold one in your hand when it goes, just to make sure nothing is going to happen.

 

[kmakar]

Hold one in your hand when it goes, just to make sure nothing is going to happen.

I think I'll watch from a distance. I like blood and guts, but I don't like the idea of wearing it.

 

[Alwhite00]

The brass casing can lodge in one’s cheek. Don’t ask me how I know.

 

[Molly's 70]

Hold my Beer.

 

[Shovelrick]

I didn’t Buy these today but about 6-7 yrs ago and forgot I had them, 400+ rnds of .380 for a S&W .380 Body Guard I bought Kathy for a Bday present years ago

 

[Shaner]

I traded some stuff I didn't want for some cool Big Block parts. Old Weiand tunnel ram, some BB Hooker Super Comps for 65-70 Impala, vintage Cal Customs valve covers, and some other misc parts.

I'll probably sell the headers to my brother, keep the valve covers, and put the rest on Marketplace.

I have those exact valve covers for my 454.

I wonder what a bbc would run like with Two, three barrel holleys on top of a tunnel ram. You'd have a 6 pack with only two carbs lol.

 

[JohnC]

Ordered a Champion 2 row radiator for the Chevelle. They advised in get the 2 row for my c10 and it stays nice and cool so I figure that’s enough for the Chevelle too (both 350s).

 

[cheveslakr]

Consulted the budget and it allowed me a set of Harland Sharpe rockers for the 427. I would have just ran stamped, but I convinced myself to go roller cam, unless I pull some voodoo and come up with a solid flat tappet, which is less likely.

 

[kmakar]

Ordered a Champion 2 row radiator for the Chevelle. They advised in get the 2 row for my c10 and it stays nice and cool so I figure that’s enough for the Chevelle too (both 350s).

I have a 2 row champion in the '68 GTO clone with a 455, and one in my '64 Starfire with a 394 and have never had an issue.

 

[cheveslakr]

Lots of guys really swear by those 2 row, 1.25?? x 2, radiators. Seems they more efficient than a 3 row.