Last-Minute Build, Getting Gear Upwardly For Hot Rod Ability Tour
Thrash time! With the Hot Rod Power Tour, simply 2 weeks away nosotros all conduct maintain a long listing of things to check, fix, in addition to construct earlier nosotros become on the week-long trip. With an estimated 5,000 participants already registered at that topographic point is a lot of function existence done inward a brusque time. We at JYL are no different. Our 1972 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser is silent inward the store alongside a bad transmission in addition to the all-wheel-drive 1966 Impala is simply at in 1 lawsuit finishing upgrades. Our editor-in-chief, Jody Potter, seems to locomote the exclusively 1 who thinks he’s ready to brand the trip (editors note: Doubtful!).
With hence much silent to do, nosotros went to our friend Mike Ellison’s shop, Musclecar Outfitters, inward Dodge City, Alabama for help to larn our grouping ready. This is where the storey gets good, at to the lowest degree for the reader. We walked inward looking for help exclusively to discovery the store truck that is our dorsum upward parts in addition to recovery rig silent taken apart in addition to sitting inward the nurture of the shop. This truck, a 1968 C-10 assembled from parts of a one-half dozen 1967-1972 Chevy C10 trucks, has made the final 10 Power Tours. We had to ask, what come about to the truck?
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| Mike Ellison working to larn ready the 1968 C10 for the 2018 Hot Rod Power Tour. |
Q&A
Junkyard Life: Mike, the truck was running dandy simply a few months agone what come about to it ?Musclecar Outfitters: We had roughly downwards fourth dimension hence nosotros decided to upgrade the truck alongside a ton of novel parts that had been sitting inward the parts room for months.
JYL: What upgrades are you lot making to the store truck?
MCO: We built a novel motor alongside a Sniper fuel injection, novel Sniper fuel system, novel exhaust, rims, in addition to total interior. The remainder nosotros simply left the same.
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| Holley Sniper fuel injection installed. |
MCO: Customers come upward first. When the dates for the tour were announced nosotros had a huge rush of customer’s cars to larn ready earlier nosotros could start dorsum on the truck. Plus, alongside the added novel projects the truck simply got pushed back.
JYL: We would dearest to help larn the truck ready. It’s simply non the same without the store truck alongside us.
MCO: We are currently working on the truck starting at v am until nosotros opened upward in addition to and then dorsum to it any fourth dimension nosotros complete our customers cars at night. There is half-dozen weeks of function to seat into the truck inward simply a few hours a solar daytime alongside exclusively 2 construct weeks left. The truck hasn’t missed a Power Tour inward 10 years in addition to it volition brand this 1 also.
More to come
Stay tuned to run across how the truck makes the trip in addition to what it took to complete it. This is 1 projection Junkyard Life is ready to accept on in addition to help silent Mike lets us.
Keith Lively
— Junkyard Life
— Junkyard Life
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| Ellison’s 1968 Chevy C-10 has seen several dissimilar looks in addition to seems to locomote undergoing engine/parts swaps all the time. |
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