Here's another photo of the fender, and the (almost) finished shifter. I used old typewriter keys for the indicator markers, stole the idea but it's a good one!
I'll also mention my brief 331 Hemi ownership last week. I was at my buddy Johns shop, and a guy came in and asked if anybody would be interested in a 331 Hemi, another friend of ours had sent him over. We went out an looked in his truck, and sure enough, an old Hemi, one head off, cyl's rusty and stuck, one valve cover missing along with a couple other junk engines and some misc. scrap steel. Clearly, they were headed for the recycler.
My buddy passed, and I offered 50 bucks for the engine and trans. After a brief negotiation, we settled on 75, and he said I could have anything else I wanted from his Dads warehouse, which he was cleaning out, that was small enough to throw in the truck.
I went to his place, we loaded the Hemi, a model A w/s visor with a bunch of holes cut in it (in perfect shape and very 'old school') and a GM 4-53 supercharger. We couldn't find the missing valve cover.
On the way home, I stopped at the hardware store, and a casual aquaintance came in and asked if I owned the truck with the Hemi in the back. I allowed that I did, and that I wasn't sure what I was going to do with it, as I couldn't get in my shop to get near the cherry picker to unload it, and my dad's shop is also full of immovable objects. Did he want it?
He did indeed, and I delivered it to his place right then. It's probably rebuildable, but I don't need another project, and I don't have extra $$ to invest in an engine I don't have a use for. I have so much stuff now that it was just one more thing. It did weigh the back of the truck down nicely!
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