My dad finished welding the front end up around the last week of June. I have a few more parts set to come in that will allow me to put the suspension together on the car and finally get it rolling. That will be exciting.
Working on getting a driver-side front door for the car. Once that's in the body will be in pretty good shape except for a couple of patching jobs. The floor pans need to be replaced, once that's done much of the interior work can be accomplished along with a new wiring harness.
On the motor front, I was planning on rebuilding the original Y-block 272, but after doing a lot of soul searching have decided to probably go with a 302 turn-key crate engine. The 302 will provide more horsepower and be more efficient. We plan on coupling it with an automatic overdrive, which should boost gas mileage to about 20-24 miles per gallon. That would be welcome, especially with gasoline creeping back up to near $4 per gallon.
Will add some more pictures soon.
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