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Brad54
04-15-2004, 01:19 AM
A guy told me about this board and said I needed to check it out--Best advice I've gotten in a long while!
Also said I should be sure to introduce myself before I start just posting stuff, and since there's a guy with a Buick 322 flywheel and bellhousing who wants to trade for a unique SBC intake, and I've got a unique SBC intake...
Name's Brad Ocock. Friends call me Miles.
My closest project to Roadworthy is a '57 Chevy 150 2dr station wagon. John Deere Blitz Black, 14x4 Toque Thrusts/Black steelies with white wall pie crusts, fiberglass fenders, 'glass lift-off hood, glass doors, white fenderwells, no front bumper, no inner fenders, radio/heater/clock delete, cool drilled slapper bars,
and unfortunatly a SBC backed by a 4-speed. Didn't want the SBC, but couldn't pass it on the price.
The goal is to build a '57 Chevy for $5,700, and it looks like I'm gonna make it!
Also have a '54 Buick Special that was my daily driver for a year and a half before the manual trans died. Pulled the engine to get at the clutch, discovered the problem, and two years later it's still in the garage because crap snowballs. Plans are for a '56 322, Weiand 2x4 or 3x2, chrome valve covers, 1.6 aluminum 401 rockers and a bunch of other stuff nobody should bother doing with a 322. The long plan is for it to be a Kustom, but the last week I thought about re-ringing the 264, putting in the spare trans, sanding it and Fla-Bla priming it, white pinstripes and driving it until I can do it the way I want.
Finally, have a '56 Chevy 150 2dr Sedan that is so far on the back burner it may never see the road other than on my trailer, but it was my first project car, led to my job and wife, so it's family.
So that's me. Love the board, will be here a lot, and I'm going to write to a guy about a bellhousing now.
-Brad

williebill
04-15-2004, 01:57 AM
your friends don't call you Cock? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

dondanno
04-15-2004, 01:58 AM
Welcome Brad. Post some pics when you get a chance. What makes this place cool is seeing what we are all up to. It keeps us all motivated...Danny

Broman
04-15-2004, 02:59 AM
So you are saying your Buick has/had a I8 in it? And you are wanting to take it out? I would object to that but I will refrain for now. I hope it runs under some non SBC power someday anyhow...


Welcome to our home.

Rule #1 Don't bash the SBC.....

Rule #2 Don't do what I do...

Rule #3 Don't take Germ too seriously, he is nice under the harsh exterior....

Rule #4 Rules are for pussies.....

Rule #5 Don't be a pussy....

Rule #6 Don't pass on free pussy....

Rule #7 Don't post on here when you're drunk....

Rule #8 Do more listening than speaking...

Rule #9 Don't contradict yourself...

Rule #10 Don't make long winded idiotic replies to simple posts...


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Skate Fink
04-15-2004, 04:57 AM
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Rule #10 Don't make long winded idiotic replies to simple posts...
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.......oops! I'll have to remember that one! Welcome Brad. You're lucky. They never gave me the list of rules and my second post, I put up a shot of a PT Cruiser. Boy! Was THAT a mistake!!!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Stevie G
04-15-2004, 07:56 AM
Well, you finally made it.
You were holding out on me about the wagon man.
That O/D tranny is waiting for you.
Welcome to the HAMB.

CURIOUS RASH
04-15-2004, 09:20 AM
[ QUOTE ]
So you are saying your Buick has/had a I8 in it? And you are wanting to take it out? I would object to that but I will refrain for now. I hope it runs under some non SBC power someday anyhow...


Welcome to our home.

Rule #1 Don't bash the SBC.....

Rule #2 Don't do what I do...

Rule #3 Don't take Germ too seriously, he is nice under the harsh exterior....

Rule #4 Rules are for pussies.....

Rule #5 Don't be a pussy....

Rule #6 Don't pass on free pussy....

Rule #7 Don't post on here when you're drunk....

Rule #8 Do more listening than speaking...

Rule #9 Don't contradict yourself...

Rule #10 Don't make long winded idiotic replies to simple posts...


http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif...... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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You forgot a couple standards a friend of my mom's told me in high school.

1. Don't sweat the petty stuff.

2. Don't pet the sweatty stuff.

That should be all you need to know to make it on the HAMB.

Oh yeah, don't ever say "this place rocks" again.

I will personally come to your house and piss on your computer until it quits smoking. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif</font>

Brad54
04-15-2004, 09:32 AM
The Buick had a 264 Nailhead--smallest of the bunch. '54 and '55 only, and had 7.2:1 compression. Won't get out of its own way.

I don't mind an SBC, I just want something not everyone else has, like a (running) Nailhead, a 409 or an aluminum Slant 6 (all presently taking up garage floor space)

-Brad

Broman
04-15-2004, 11:12 AM
If you think a nailhead won't get out of it's own way you've never felt the joy of the gutless Straight 8 my friend...


Truely inspiring.


I am part of this boards Buick gang by the way - not the leader by any means, but most of us are running Buick powered Buicks and that's the way I like it (please note how I abstained from saying "uhh-huh uhh-huh" in that phrase http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif ).

My other post was just a drunken lame ass joke, so please disregard any uselss info therein....

Ohh, and I always pet sweaty things....I should quit that though people are starting to talk. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

ChuckleHead_Al
04-15-2004, 11:24 AM
quote... most of us are running Buick powered Buicks and that's the way I like it


I run a 264 Nilhead as well, my trans. messed up it's being rebuilt as we speak... Yup, there's nothing better than a Buick. Mines a 54 Special..

Antibilly
04-15-2004, 11:31 AM
ATL eh?

hey you got my stew?...hello wallaces bbq.

Brad54
04-15-2004, 10:54 PM
Mine's a 2-dr Special. I'm the third owner. Old guy bought it from an old lady--he had one new in '53. 24K original miles, I added another 12k before the trans took the big shit. (pilot bearing, actually, which wiped out the input shaft)

-Miles

whitewallslick
04-15-2004, 11:02 PM
Please tell me you have pictures of the '57 ... I also have a '57 150 2dr wagon ... flat black, straight axle, magnesium spindle-mounts, sbc &amp; 4-spd. Would love to see your wagon. WWS