The other projects in our life.

Post by **Kinder** » Mon Nov 14, 2016 4:10 pm

I thought we had a tread about the other stuff we were all working on, but I can't find it so...

This happened this weekend.

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With the weather so nice and the 2.5 year clock ticking down it was time to see if it would move after 8 years of neglect.

This will be my youngest boy's car, built to drive to school and play on the vintage road race tracks.

Post by **Rox Crusher** » Mon Nov 14, 2016 6:50 pm

That's awesome.

I was wondering when you were going to get going on it.

Post by **cravenbronco** » Mon Nov 14, 2016 7:45 pm

Post by **TOOLMAN** » Tue Nov 15, 2016 6:41 am

Post by **Digger** » Tue Nov 15, 2016 2:23 pm

Raising them right, you are doing. :burnout:

Post by **landshark** » Tue Nov 15, 2016 3:56 pm

Was it running before? What did you do to get it running and driving? Plans?

Post by **Moab Mike** » Tue Nov 15, 2016 3:59 pm

Another great father/son project!

Post by **Jesus_man** » Wed Nov 16, 2016 8:15 am

I hope I have planted the Bronco Seed deep in my son's desire, but I too will need to be thinking about something like this in a few years.

But even an old chevy is way cooler than any other starter car!

Post by **Kinder** » Wed Nov 16, 2016 10:36 am

Digger wrote:Raising them right, you are doing.

Thanks, but sometimes I think Hockeydad's words should remembered. Something about getting your kids into your hobbies!

Post by **Kinder** » Wed Nov 16, 2016 10:46 am

landshark wrote:Was it running before? What did you do to get it running and driving? Plans?

I bought it in 2013 in un-running condition, one of those right place wrong time things. It had sat for 5 years in his garage and his kid needed money, and it's been at my place for 3 years. A recent episode of Roadkill about a '67 Pontiac inspired me to go outside and see what would happen if I dropped in a fresh battery, 3 hours later I was driving it around the block. Of course that 3 hours was full of fuel, wiring, brake and steering problems. Let's just say it's nice to have the experience of owning old junk and knowing what it needs to run.

Plans

- DON'T tear it apart
- Fix the safety items
- Find an affordable parts stream
- Upgrade the suspension so it'll go fast around the corners
- Cheap paint job

It's a 350 / 3 spd car, kind of odd. But the motor is strong and it'll smoke the tires. The heads need new valve seals ASAP, but I'm going to look for a set of upgraded heads to let it breath.

Post by **Mr. Lav** » Wed Nov 16, 2016 9:04 pm

Nice 68. My son got a nice surprise too for his senior year of high school

Post by **EFI Guy** » Wed Nov 16, 2016 11:29 pm

I'm thinking Coyote swap. poke

Post by **hockeydad4-22** » Thu Nov 17, 2016 7:02 am

Awesome! I am thrilled to see D's ride getting to see the light of day and a little pavement time. Something about a trip to the local Sonic in a classic that just feels right. Now lets go roast those dry rotted tires off the rims!

And you already know what you are getting into having built W's rig. It is both the most awesome thing you can do and the most frustrating thing you can do... But I can testify - they do actually listen to you, and it is pretty awesome when you get calls from across the continent asking your advice on something they are working on.

Yes - I would do it all again. In a heartbeat.

Post by **Jesus_man** » Thu Nov 17, 2016 7:26 pm

Perhaps I am stretching the limits of this thread a bit, but it's a project I am quite proud of. New house has your standard wine glass hanger apparatus and they were just too small for my beer glasses. So I started spacing them out to discover my beer glasses have way too much variety of base diameters for these to work. And since, for a weekend, I had access to a table saw, I started making my own. So all I have re-made was the upsidedown T's and L's, but they perform flawlessly! No chance of any of my glasses falling out on their own. I have LED's to light them up, but I need some power splitters to install them.

Post by **Kinder** » Sat Nov 19, 2016 5:55 pm

Nice, I miss the European style beer glasses.

Post by **Jesus_man** » Mon Nov 21, 2016 8:21 am

Last update on this project. I used the Sylvania Mosaic LED strips from Lowes (and online) and I think they are a good product for fairly cheap.

Post by **TOOLMAN** » Wed Nov 23, 2016 7:23 am

This may be my next project (after I get the Bronco close). It's been sitting in my Mom's drive for 12-15 years. I need to get something the wife can drive. That way, she's more on board when I want to spend money on this stuff.

Post by **Jesus_man** » Wed Nov 23, 2016 8:13 am

Are you going to try to restore the emblem? That will be cool!

Post by **TOOLMAN** » Wed Nov 23, 2016 10:20 am

I would like to try to. I remember it being white and a reflective blue. Can't really tell anymore.

Strike2 · Post by **Strike2** » Mon Dec 12, 2016 2:08 pm

I picked up this GS 550 from a professor up in the spring several years ago to see if I could build a "bar hopper". Life happened but I finally completed it in Oct and I just sold it this weekend for more Bronco Parts! My last side project should be this 1969/70 Honda Z50 that's sitting as a trophy in my garage I trade for a go cart 8-years ago and is 99% complete and original.

Post by **Kinder** » Mon Dec 12, 2016 5:08 pm

Nice work, my oldest boy is building a cafe style CB550.

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Strike2 · Post by **Strike2** » Mon Dec 12, 2016 5:39 pm

Nice CB, that one looks unmolested i love the spokes rims, I'm sure he's hear of the site called "pipe burn" lots of cool bikes to get ideas from. Also TD motorcycles in Thornton is a good source parts way better than Steeles IMO

Post by **Kinder** » Tue Dec 13, 2016 6:31 am

Thanks for the tips, I'll check out the site & stores.

Strike2 · Post by **Strike2** » Tue Dec 13, 2016 6:58 am

http://www.tdmotorcycle.com/
TD Motorcycle isn't much of a store they do most of there business on Ebay. I find that there process for taking bikes apart and displaying them is really spot on an not sketchy, being local is a plus for me as well.

www.ColoradoClassicBroncos.com