Wayward Garage Current Features

Current Features
Last Update: April 16th, 2008

Relic's Car Club does more Aluminum Casting!!

Dan "the Madman" Nelson invited everyone over to his new digs for a barbeque and some good old fashioned fun, pouring molten aluminum into sand molds!

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Random Garage Find!!

$50 scored me this crazy 1955 Olds 324 that must have been hot stuff way back when! Pop-up pistons, roller cam, aluminum rods, stroked and poked to 380-something cubes!!

This was what it looked like after I got it cleaned up a little. The bore is at 3.93, about .055 over stock. It needs everything!

A roller cam was crazy race hardware when this was built, and it probably has a hot little cam, too!

Aluminum connecting rods!! That crank has a 3.92 stroke, a stock '55 324 was 3.4375!! Woo!!!

Just a nice shot at the beam of one of the rods. Howard is my last name, too!!

I think I have to build another car around this....

1970 Dodge Challenger hits the road!

Drove my Challenger to John's Burger finally, and the day after took it out for a couple pictures!

I worked hard all Friday to get it in an epoxy primer, and everything fough me along the way. The wind kicked up as soon as I put the mixed primer into the gun. My good gun is clogged so I tried one of those $20 Walmart guns, and it isn't even worth the $20 I payed for it. The adjustable pressure regulator on my air compressor stopped regulating, so I borrowed the air compressor from my neighbor just so I control the air flow. Once I got it dialed in, it still sprayed crooked and ran paint on almost every body panel.

$20 Walmart gun review: Worthless. You're almost better off rolling the paint on.

Here she is, on the freshly paved backroads of Springtown. No crazy burnout videos yet!

There is some driveability issues, need to rebuild the Holley, but she scoots pretty damn good!

The pictures don't show all the random dents and hoo-haws in the body, but I'll get to it soon.

No, that's not crap on your monitor, you can see the last little rust holes above the rear passenger side wheel well.

I still can't believe I'm driving this car again!

Matt's Garage

Just a random arsty farty picture of Matt's '39 in his garage!

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Bill's Garage scene!
1969 Dodge Coronet

A little more got done, but this should be it for a while. Pulled the motor last weekend, and beat the crap out of the offending header with a hammer. Actually, i over-cleared it, but it'll still flow fine. I took my cheap-o Dremel and ground down the pad on the steering box where the header was hitting as well. It's the pad where the PS fluid-return fitting attaches, and there's a couple mystery bolts sticking out of it. But the raised pad has plenty of metal around the edges that's extraneous, along with banging into the header pipe, so away it goes.

Also, swapped in a Mopar lightweight mini-starter. The size and weight difference is pretty amazing. Haven't fired it, we finished the swap, dropped the motor back down, and it's been sitting all week waiting for me to get back to her. which is this evening. So she oughtta be running tonight. couple pics:

Here we go again. Scott, remember this view?

Here's the motor in the air. Header is off, starter is out.

Ahhh, victory. See you on the road!

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Bill's 1969 Dodge Coronet

Mike's Model A

Moving right along, Mike's installing the fuel line in this picture.

Should be running real soon, I know he's onto the wiring next!

More pictures can be seen at Mike's Model A page!

Matt's 1965 Chevelle Blows apart a rearend!

The story I got from Matt was that he took the car out for a ride and got on the throttle going around a corner and the rearend went "whumpity whumpity whumpity" and came to a stop.

Coming off the tow truck!!