67 a100 pickup project

One step closer to getting the "old girl" on the road!!!! Found a /6 and trans for 100.00 that has 38,000 miles on it out of a 76 dart.. He took it out so he can drop a 360 in. At least I can have some fun and drive this one to milford, while I try to absorb some of Terry's knowledge and build some horsepower into my 66' /6.

ahhh just add 2" lift blocks and replace the rear shocks with front a100 shocks and go for the gusto, 295 60 15s on cragars, youll be glad you did

That Dart trans. won't be a direct swap. I think the car trannys have a much longer tailshaft than the A-vans and you'll end up with a very short driveshaft.

You can make your own mounting bracket or one from a B-van will work well.

Trying not to go the "add a mount " way. Going to call brian again tonight and see if I can get a spacer. Someone has to support the UPS drivers.

Ah so.

The trans. from the Dart would have been a 904 anyway. A good transmission, but not really for truck use.

Yeap, but might get 150 or 200 out of the trans toward the next van.

Picked up the engine and trans tonight, and even found a welding shop that will fix my spacer so hopefully I can start putting the engine back in this weekend.

Cool beans! That will save you some bucks!

Finally amde some headway on the '68 so I could spend some time stripping the paint off the left side and was suprised to only find one pin hole of rust and five small door dents. Have to get the '67 sanded down so I can see what I need to cut off the campwagon for patch panels and cut the fleet down to 2 instead of 3 A's in the pole barn and drive way.

Picked up the rearched springs this week so it's time to drop the fuel tank, sand blast the bottom side and put the springs in. New pics tomorrow.

Scored a set of honda accord seats this week for the price of loaning out my engine hoist, compressor, impact, and air rachet so a friend could part the car out. I think I still owe him a couple of more tool loans since I didn't have to pay for the seats.

dix... here's the grill. If the pickup doesn't make it to Baker's I will bring the grill along for people to see. I'm glad that I had it done, it should look great with plum crazy purple

You can't make them look better than that !

Here are the civic seats that are going in.

Duane the little details like your doing is what makes early's cool. Hope the pick-up makes it, but don't mine see the van again (cool camper)

Well.... looks like mine was first at the accident at some point in it's life. I spent the day sanding the bondo out of the nose 1/4- 3/8" thick in some spots, even found a hole that they just covered over with mud. No wonder it cracked there. Need to do a lot of hammer and dolly work, but need to get the air box out of my way, any ideas??

thats gonna require a lot of metal shrinking and dolly block work but it is repairable. also a stud gun to temporary weld the pins for some slide hammer work.

know anybody with a donor body front end? might be easier to cut out and stitch another in.goin to have to work in that shiney grill too.might as well have metal to work with.just my .02

moe... I've got 2 spare noses that both have minor issues, all depends on what my brother the body man has to say on whether we fix this one or cut and weld.

how invovld is it to remove the air box? im facing the same thing.

wylee... from what everyone is telling me they are welded in pretty well and welding a patch in is probably what I am going to do. I can reach some of mine to use a hammer and dolly on, just have to perfect swinging the hammer left handed.

Another set back today... Pulled the carpet out and found fiberglass over bondo and unrepaired holes in the floor from a wreck before I got it. More metal work to do now.

Got to the right side today. Cut out the patch panel from the previous owner, found some more fiberglass and the michigan "cancer" under the patch panel along with a 5 gallon pail of media sand. They welded the drain holes shut on the right side. Go figure????





Found a nest in behind the panel, thankfully only 2 occupants were home at the time.