Antique & Classic Cars Blog

We invited readers to submit photos of your classics, plus whatever details you wish to provide. Brent Lundquist with Minnesota Rolling Thunder Car Club stepped forward with his in-the-works ‘65 Chevy Chevelle.

Here are some comments from Brent:

“I’m glad to see the big local paper dedicating a section to this great hobby!… My current project is a 1965 Chevelle 300 Deluxe Post in beautiful grey primmer. It currently sports a very sluggish and not so clean inline 6 cylinder with a manual 3 speed on the tree.”

Now that’s a classic engine-swap candidate. The Chevelle has nice lines and lots of potential, but an inline six offers neither great performance nor exceptional economy by modern standards, and a “three-on-the-tree”–that is a steering-column shifter–is a long way from sporty.

“Plans for this winter are to replace the tired old inline 6 with a very healthy 489 (.30 over 454 with a 4.25″ stroke crank) a built TH350 automatic transmission and a ford 9″ rear end with 4.11 gears. The 489 and TH350 were taken form a past project and are ready and waiting in the garage for their new residence. And of course there’s plenty of interior work yet to do as well as suspension. I plan to have all this done and have it on the road by April 1st (with help from some good friends of course). Paint and body will have to wait till next year–horsepower first right? Anyway thanks for the great automotive pit stop on the web; it really is nice to have another local outlet to the classic automobile.”

Thanks to you, Brent, for writing in and sharing a cool project. Any glamour hidden by primer is made up for in spades by that awesome lift. Beats scooting around on cold concrete, which is how work gets done on the underside of my car!

–Motormouth

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