Hello everybody, Josh here with Speedway Motors. Shooting a little video in the
garage today to show some of the things that I've been working on. We're on day
600 of quarantine or something. Hopefully that joke holds up over a few years and
we're really only in this for another couple of weeks. So just sitting at home
here and working on a couple things and working on some of our Speedway work on
the computer at home. So sharing some video and projects and pictures of some
of the cars we've been working on. Again this whole idea was just to kind of
share some of the things that we've been working on as well as seeing a lot of
the things that you guys are working on, all of our customers out there. So feel free to
share and we'll take a look around. So this is what we've been working on here
lately. This was a new project that I picked up, scoot back a little bit more
but this is a 67 Pontiac Firebird. I got it
October of last year, of 19. It was a family friend's car. Had all the subframe,
engine transmission, front fenders, hood, grill, everything off the car and
separate from the car. The interior was kind of there. It had been painted 10 or 15 years
ago as a nice restored car and they had took it apart to do an LS swap and never
ended up getting a chance to finish it. So I went up there and picked it up and
put a lot of it together and that's what I've been working on over the winter
here in the garage. It's got a Pontiac 350 engine in it now, a four-speed car.
Originally it was a 6-cylinder automatic but been switched over at some point in
its life to get the four-speed. So put new carpet in. All the wiring was in the
trunk, most of the dash was in the trunk
so did quite a bit of interior work which was new to me on that. I haven't
really messed with that much in my life but ended up working out pretty well. New
carpet there that we ordered through Speedway. And mainly most of my work was
under the hood here. We ended up
doing quite a bit of work under here. I paint took the engine subframe out, painted up all the engine new headers,
new hooker headers. Painted all the inner fender wells, frame rails, control arms,
new ball joints and the control arms. I switched it over to power disc brakes,
put the speedway g comp 2 inch drop spindles on there, as well as a new
drilled and slotted disc brake kit. New alternator, a bunch of stuff like that. So
says 400 on there says 400 on the hood, unfortunately, it's a 72 Pontiac 350
which was about the lowest compression of year for me, Pontiac v8 so that was
pretty neat. But whatever it's somewhere between a 350 and 400 I say. So pretty
straight clean old car. It's got plenty of little bumps and bruises from being
painted so long ago and then being disassembled for so long. So it's a
definitely a 10-footer car but it's a gonna be a fun one and something I
should be able to just get in and cruise and enjoy it so. Other projects,
this is another project here. This is a my 1950 Chevy pickup that I've been
working on for over a decade easily. this was my dad's 30th birthday present to
himself, he bought it for himself and I got ahold of it when I was in my mid to
early 20s and started kind of cutting it apart and doing some stuff with it so.
it's got a nova front subframe clipped on to it, right here if there's where we
clipped that on. it's got a 305 out of a 91 Pontiac Firebird,
t5 transmission. And then we switched over the front to airbags switch over
the rear to airbag. It's got the same kind of 78 Monte Carlo rear axle as the
front clips from air ride on the back here. Did a C-notch
right over here and then we did kind of a custom four-link with some tubular
swedge tubes there. And thing looks like it's gonna ride and handle pretty well.
It's a pretty well-sorted chassis. Trying to get all the bodywork figured
out and done to where I can get it all through them on there. This one's gonna
be kind of a flat satin, a similar blue color that it is now. Just wanted to
get some good bodywork done and have a good smooth flat car. The roof has been
chopped on this one. Oops, let's go over here. There's Maggie the dog, shop dog.
This is the cab. I did a whole lot of sheet metal work on this last fall.
Replaced this whole cowl in here the floor board all the way across the front.
This kind of angle the floor back to the underside. That inner cowl patch
right in there and did all the cab corners on that so quite a bit of rust
repair in this one but you know being dad's truck. that's the only one you get
to work on. You don't get to find one that's less rusty. That's cheating so.
This was about how much we chopped out of the roof here. This is the A pillar.
About two inches came out right here so, right here sorry.
Got that all blended back in there pretty well and the roof had to get cut
kind of several different ways. The roof still has a lot to be desired as far as
getting smoothed out the way I'd like it but right here you can see my fingers
have traced it on the dust ready. That's a piece, says about an inch and a half
that had to get sectioned into there to lengthen the cab front to back when I
chopped it. Then here's our rear seam that butted up down there. From the back
it's pretty evident to see where this all got cut. The roof was actually in
five pieces I believe. So because the back window was straight up and down for
the chop, but the side windows wouldn't be. I was able to cut through the middle
of the window there and I kept the center section right up in here as one
piece and then each of these corners independently
cut out and we got a about a 3/4 inch wide piece welded up in here. And then in
the front it was cut right down the middle in the front back to where that
splice is down in the ribbon across the top. So it doesn't really sit quite even
on the card so it looks really lopsided at the moment but it's just the whole
cab is tipped that way a little bit. So yeah hopefully before hoping by fall
this should be all together and running. The engine and transmission and
wiring and all that stuff should move pretty quick. It's mainly just getting
the cab finished out and sheetmetal work a little more lead filler and then bondo
primer, all that good stuff. So hoping to get that one up on the road here pretty
soon. Other fun stuff in the garage. Obviously, we showed off Maggie once. This
is a nice little Pontiac tripower I've been saving for a lot of years. I got it
at an auction thinking it would fit on my 66 GTO which was another thing that
my dad had got with me. But this is the early Pontiac tripower
so this is like a 57 to 63 tripower, so it ends up not fitting any of the motors
that I ever mess with. So mostly that's just garage art fun to look at something
to talk about with buddies. Yeah other than that, a couple cool signs I found.
I found this sign a year or two ago down at the local old service station. It was
being torn down and they said I could have it so that's been living in my
garage. I used to have it up in the ceiling rafters but I tinned all
that so now it doesn't really have a good spot. Thinking it might end up going
out on the outside of the building if I can keep it in a spot that won't fade
too much. So yeah that's what I'm working in my garage right now. Like I say I've
got a 66 GTO that looks nothing like this. If this is a 10-foot car, the GTO is
a 150 foot car as far as looks. So it needs a lot of bodywork and I'm not a
great body man so that's something that's been getting held off on for
quite a while. Runs and drives but needs a whole
lot of help with from Dynacorn. So that and got a 77
Camaro drag car that me and a couple buddies are in on together. So that is
all the car projects that I can do and they're more than I can afford so I just
work on them as I have time. And just been enjoying all my time out here. And
again, just go ahead and hit us up on Facebook in the comments below and show
us some of your rides. Show us what you've been up to in the shop. Show us
what you've been getting done. We are still shipping out parts. I've
been buying stuff all week for this Firebird trying to get it on the road
here officially, so we're going to pick up some new tires tomorrow for it. So
thanks for checking in with us. Thanks for using Speedway. Again, comment below
we'll take a look at what you got. Thanks guys.