Just a couple more of the Jimmillac

[Cadillacin Marcus]

Took these today after I took it for its maiden voyage around the block.I got the seat for it yesterday finally.I made it around the block and it ran out of gas!!hahaha...Had my brother run to the gas station to get another 5 gallons fire it up and went through all the gears..Just as perefct as can be runs at 195 degrees 30 PSI oil pressure,Idles at around 1100...Now off to the exhaust shop it goes

[Cadillacin Marcus]

another

[Cadillacin Marcus]

331

[nor cal nic]

nice rig! dig the mill... and that rear light treatment is cool...
nic

[Fraz]

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...Now off to the exhaust shop it goes

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Why? Straight pipes only, right?

[Cadillacin Marcus]

no.... duals with 18" glasspacks 2 1/2" diameter pipe with dump tubes... 3 chrome tips on each side exiting under the rear pan..

[Fat Hack]

Why hide a motor so pretty in an old cow chaser like that??? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[yorgatron]

you should fit a piece of plexi into your hood to show off the mill.you better add a trip to the glass shop while you're at it...

[Cadillacin Marcus]

Yeah .. I know this is what kills me about the whole thing...I will probably just run it without the hood maybe...When I started with the whole Cadillac in a GMC gig it was just for the hell of it.I had the engine it was a runner,originally I had bought the motor to put in my 49 Ford,it sat in there for a year when I bailed on the project because the car was a rust bucket..My friend said why dont you just build the damn truck and turn that into a rod?! Its a straight rust free truck and i bet that Cad you have will go right in there nicely..So the plan at first ws to stuff a stock Cad 331 in it with the Hydro and that would be it.But I couldnt leave it alone,after reading all my old Rod books on hopping up Caddies and learnin about all the cool speed equipment that was out there,the build was on and there was no turning back so here i am some $8000 and 5 years later with a show and go Caddy under the hood of a GMC Truck!!It is a one of a kind though!!the plexiglass thing has been mentioned alot,but that would look down right ugly...

[Cadillacin Marcus]

I think for right now were just going to satin black the truck with metalflake scallops...Its cheap and fast.. and that way i can start doing my interior..bada bing!!

[Cadillacin Marcus]

Heres the Moon tank..

[SamIyam]

Please don't satin black it!

Keep it as is if anything... or tinted primer... but black, it's sooo passe man.

Sam.

[SanDiegoJoe]

I really like that truck, the engine is damn cool...

I did up a rendering of a rear end a while back, what do you think?

[willowbilly3]

Damn fine looking caddy, ditto on the cowchaser tho, ugliest hood ever made imo. Plus side is the torsion bars if you still have the original front. Nice smooth ride and easy to drop.

[Cadillacin Marcus]

Uptown..thats funny you did that..that was my original plan!!! Thats crazy...I thought I was the only one who thought of that...Thats pretty damn cool....I wanted to retain the tailgate access..I dont know whay I never really haul anything in it....Oh well..Nice job though!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif
Sam I have to agree,I might just go a tinted blue then....I just want to do something tempoarary for now...unitl I can save the money to get the right job...

[Zeke]

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/image_uploads/248411-jimmyilac%20small.jpg

Finish it you bitch and do it right.

[Cadillacin Marcus]

Yeah... that is so not going to happen...No fins, no heavy ass front bumper.... no no no....Thats too Kustom..This truck is more a Hot Rod than a Kustom..its Hot Rod thats mildly Customized! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Killer]

fuckin pussy.

I'm buildin that truck then.

[Cadillacin Marcus]

Alright.. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif Well shit just give it back when its done!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Zeke]

Then pull that caddie mill and drop in an FE ya Bitaachh

[Cadillacin Marcus]

hahaha....NOT!!! Speaking of FE..I just got a bitchin little more door today 61 Galaxie One Onwer 85 year old lady car!!!I'll post pics later...

[Sam F.]

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I just got a bitchin little more door today!!! .......I'll post pics later...

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im SURE you will! HAHAHAHAHa

[Fat Hack]

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I just got a bitchin little more door today!!! .......I'll post pics later...

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im SURE you will! HAHAHAHAHa

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He's spraying it flat black as we speak! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[Cadillacin Marcus]

Well ya know...shit.... I thinks its cool anways...I'm proud of my little garage finds ,,....

[Fat ASS Whitewalls]

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ugliest hood ever made imo.

[/ QUOTE ] The later hoods will bolt right on, like a 65 or so. Dean

[Sailor]

Nice (and inspiring..) to see that project wake up and go somewhere. Allways dug the concept, and I mean that.
The Chris Ito-drawing is bitching in my book. But hey I can understand that the metalwork involved is extreme stuff. But at least dont give up on the style of the truck in the rendering. Like the paintjob, and some other touches.
How about white tinted primer and blue flake panels?

[Cadillacin Marcus]

Thats an idea Sailor..I was waiting for you to chime in...I thought about you and Purple the whole time...you guys go way back and were always behind the idea....

[Zeke]

Oh and I'm not behind it. Why do you think I'm giving you shit about it ya wanker? You can do this if you take the time to do it and I mean spend some time working on it. instead of letting it sit.

[Cadillacin Marcus]

Shit sorry Zeke.....I know you're behind me...and T Man too!! crap I feel like one of them people when they win an award and forget to thank people!! hahaha... ---"You Can Do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I know I can do it...thats not the issue the issue was financing.... back in 2000 when I stared Hot Rod Vintage Parts I put all my money into that..I could have finished the truck 5 times over if it werent for that blunder...

[Zeke]

And all the money you keep piling into grannymoblies is helping? Sell that fucker and start putting some of the profit into that bitch. You finsh that plan and you won't catch half as much shit from folks. Don't be a PrimerFag(tm) and half ass it bro. Even though I don't have the coin I will do the Stude the way I have it planned. It'll just take some time after I get my debts paid off. I'm not copping out so you have no reason.

Go get a real job, do some side trades and make it happen. There's alot of us that wanna see the Jimmilac finished. Right now it's just Jilli Vinili. Fuckin' posin beeaaitch.

Well the challange is laid down. Do it or loose face. What will it be? No time frame, just get it done.

[Cadillacin Marcus]

Oh... so its like that eh homeskillet??! alright then...I'll do it up right...Fuck it....Its all or nothing....I can dig it!!

[Chopt 34]

I have been absent for a awhile, I happened to notice you got your truck running Marcus, thats cool! I thought you wanted a 60's style custom truck when you asked me to do this sketch?
"No heavy ass bumper and fins.."? huh?, Ok here is another, I still have the grille inverted just for a different look, but the body fabrication is severly toned down. Some blue windows to compliment the candy-pearl panel job. I threw the moon tank from your bed in the grille just for the hell of it, just don't ass end any one!

[Cadillacin Marcus]

Thats insane!!!! my only problem is how to get that grille to sit in above its original home..I have been looking at it hereand man thats gonna take some fabbing,also the 6x2 set up is out of the question now.....I guess someone with talent should be able to it...But I like this one alot better..has more a hot rod look to it in which I want...Wow Chris your awesome...truly beautuful art work!!

[Zeke]

Ok without the lame leaking carbs

[KlunkyMcShift]

Cool truck, don't see too many 1960 Apaches running around, and less with the stock hood!
http://members.cox.net/interceptorv8/N196001.jpg

Here's my farmtruck with it's new $20 paintjob.

This is before I spent $20 at Ace

http://members.cox.net/interceptorv8/truck01.jpg

Looks like you have alot more go with yours, I'm running the same 235 that's been in it, and never apart from what I can tell since it was slapped together.
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[Sailor]

How about keeping the stock grille-opening, but with a rolled pan and chromed stock grillebar (with some Lucas-like headlights). The openings in the hood could just be cleaned up with a short row of chromebullits in each slot. Repeat the rolled pan in the back and french in the BelAir-lights. Then do the paintjob, dumptubes and wheels from the rendering. Just thinking out loud here. I really dig the rendering, but the by far coolest in it is the overall style/theme. The least good about it (if Im going to be a tad criticical of something very cool..) is that the altered grille makes the fullsize-truck look a little small and minitruck-like. I dont know.

[Cadillacin Marcus]

Well shit Sailor what are your inside my mind?!! hahaha Thats what I wanted to do all along!!! but everyone wants me to get all insane in the membrane with it,on my budget!!..I like the stock 60 Chevy hood big time,always have,for one.. no one ever runs them, and two they are bitchin! typical of the era and style for which the truck is representing!! Finally someone gets it!!Sailor that is how the truck will be done you wait and see...Its easy ,practical and will fit the period look to a T...Enough said...

[sodbuster]

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I have been absent for a awhile, I happened to notice you got your truck running Marcus, thats cool! I thought you wanted a 60's style custom truck when you asked me to do this sketch?
"No heavy ass bumper and fins.."? huh?, Ok here is another, I still have the grille inverted just for a different look, but the body fabrication is severly toned down. Some blue windows to compliment the candy-pearl panel job. I threw the moon tank from your bed in the grille just for the hell of it, just don't ass end any one!




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What ever happened to.^^^^^^^^Did you ever get it running? I know that you had issue's with the ole' motor.

[Cadillacin Marcus]

Everythings great...Just saving for paint and new interior now...

[sodbuster]

Did you get her running good? and smoking the tires? Just wondering and thinking about it tonight.

[hotrod54chevy]

boy..these pics are makin me miss my 65 stepside my dad gave me that isnt running and i havent had time/money to dump into....i wanna get the brakes fixed on it and paint it white (?) with copper bumpers..what cha guys think?
creepy