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With a borrowed trailer and hope I drove about 250 miles to hook up with our seller, who may choose to identify himself if he wishes
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The Next Generation
My son is 1 month short of his 14th birthday and bought himself his first car this weekend, through a deal with a fellow site member.
Tuesday morning something told me to go look at the classifieds, although I rarely do. So I go in and what do i find on top, but a 65 Camino. I think about it for the day, talk to a couple of car buddies, consult with the wifey then make an offer. Only to find it's already got a deal pending. Ok, I tell my son, we have an offer on it, but only if the prior deal falls through. I get a PM in the morning indicating it's mine, and 5 minutes later he's staring at me and asking...Hey, dad, did you hear anything?
I play it cool and say I don't know..just pay attention to school and get your work done for the day.
I told him when I got home that evening and he did a major happy dance. Only problem was car needed to be gone asap and he was already going on a planned trip this weekend, my inlaws would be in next weekend so it was now or miss the deal. I told him to go skiing and the car would be there when he got home.:hurray:
So I took off at 7 am on a frosty Saturday morning for what Mapquest promised would be a 4 hour trip
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Tuesday morning something told me to go look at the classifieds, although I rarely do. So I go in and what do i find on top, but a 65 Camino. I think about it for the day, talk to a couple of car buddies, consult with the wifey then make an offer. Only to find it's already got a deal pending. Ok, I tell my son, we have an offer on it, but only if the prior deal falls through. I get a PM in the morning indicating it's mine, and 5 minutes later he's staring at me and asking...Hey, dad, did you hear anything?
I play it cool and say I don't know..just pay attention to school and get your work done for the day.
I told him when I got home that evening and he did a major happy dance. Only problem was car needed to be gone asap and he was already going on a planned trip this weekend, my inlaws would be in next weekend so it was now or miss the deal. I told him to go skiing and the car would be there when he got home.:hurray:
So I took off at 7 am on a frosty Saturday morning for what Mapquest promised would be a 4 hour trip
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I finally arrived about noon. The car was covered in tarps which I removed and started peeking around. He arrived a few minutes later and turned out to be a great guy.
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The trick was that I was buying a 327 and 4 speed also, with no real good way to strap them down, so we dropped the motor in on the frame stands after installing the oil pan and front cover.
But in order to do that we had to assemble the engine hoist he had bought that morning. Hard work takes food so we ran to get lunch in his Chevelle.
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The trick was that I was buying a 327 and 4 speed also, with no real good way to strap them down, so we dropped the motor in on the frame stands after installing the oil pan and front cover.
But in order to do that we had to assemble the engine hoist he had bought that morning. Hard work takes food so we ran to get lunch in his Chevelle.
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Now if you noticed in prevoius pics how low the rear was draggin, it did cause quite a bit more work than necessary while loading, so before I unloaded it today I installed a st of springs that came with it and some good roller tires. The passenger side rear that came on the car only held air for about 3 minutes.
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The bumper cleaned up pretty good and he moved on to removing the hood letters in preparation for paint in a few weeks.
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Made a little more progress today. Got everything cleaned out of the interior and vacuumed out.
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The next step was cleaning up the seat, which is in really nice shape.
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The interior had been all full of the trm that came with the car. We set it all in the bed for now, seeing as how it all needs cleaned up anywa. I threw it in the interior for the trip home to make sure it didn't fly out on the highway.
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Then here's the floors all cleaned up. Nice thing is, no signs of rust through.
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He's really itching to put the seat back in, but we water tested it and found that the back window is leaking (no big surprise) so all his interior pieces are in my garage until we can get that taken care of.
The next step was cleaning up the seat, which is in really nice shape.
The interior had been all full of the trm that came with the car. We set it all in the bed for now, seeing as how it all needs cleaned up anywa. I threw it in the interior for the trip home to make sure it didn't fly out on the highway.
Then here's the floors all cleaned up. Nice thing is, no signs of rust through.
He's really itching to put the seat back in, but we water tested it and found that the back window is leaking (no big surprise) so all his interior pieces are in my garage until we can get that taken care of.
Still trying to identify some things about this car since most of my experience is 64 specific and his is a 65. Can anybody identify the hole pattern for the engine emblem? I figure this car was a V8 car to start with by all indications, but don't know which emblems will fit this hole pattern:
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Its 2 smaller holes closer together on top and 2 larger holes a little farther apart on the bottom.
Devin
Its 2 smaller holes closer together on top and 2 larger holes a little farther apart on the bottom.
Devin
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