Greg’s ‘69 442 4 Speed Frame Off
#121
To answer your question is this going to be a daily driver? No, I am fortunate enough to have a new Tahoe to use as my daily driver however, I plan on using this car with my family as much as I can. I have also spent a lot of time and money on the a/c system and feel the dynamat will help with that as well. For as nice as I have tried to make it and the long hours I spent doing it I am not going to sit back and just look at it and not enjoy it. Not saying I am using it in the rain and snow obviously.
As far as the originality goes, I hope you can see in this thread originality is important to me as I spent many hours of research and effort to make it as correct as I could. I guess you can say I took some “liberties” by adding dynamat but in my opinion it is something that after it’s installed it will never be seen after the carpet is installed. Not sure if you have an old car but I guess what you are also saying is that if you rebuilt the motor and bored it, changed the nylon timing chain with a roller, changed the Valve seats with hardened ones or changed to camshaft for a modern grind that would be taking the originality away as well… I guess for me there is a fine line on upgrades.
BTW if you user name has anything to do with Grand Nationals, I love those and miss mine dearly. My advice if you have one keep it!
As far as the originality goes, I hope you can see in this thread originality is important to me as I spent many hours of research and effort to make it as correct as I could. I guess you can say I took some “liberties” by adding dynamat but in my opinion it is something that after it’s installed it will never be seen after the carpet is installed. Not sure if you have an old car but I guess what you are also saying is that if you rebuilt the motor and bored it, changed the nylon timing chain with a roller, changed the Valve seats with hardened ones or changed to camshaft for a modern grind that would be taking the originality away as well… I guess for me there is a fine line on upgrades.
BTW if you user name has anything to do with Grand Nationals, I love those and miss mine dearly. My advice if you have one keep it!
#122
To answer your question is this going to be a daily driver? No, I am fortunate enough to have a new Tahoe to use as my daily driver however, I plan on using this car with my family as much as I can. I have also spent a lot of time and money on the a/c system and feel the dynamat will help with that as well. For as nice as I have tried to make it and the long hours I spent doing it I am not going to sit back and just look at it and not enjoy it. Not saying I am using it in the rain and snow obviously.
As far as the originality goes, I hope you can see in this thread originality is important to me as I spent many hours of research and effort to make it as correct as I could. I guess you can say I took some “liberties” by adding dynamat but in my opinion it is something that after it’s installed it will never be seen after the carpet is installed. Not sure if you have an old car but I guess what you are also saying is that if you rebuilt the motor and bored it, changed the nylon timing chain with a roller, changed the Valve seats with hardened ones or changed to camshaft for a modern grind that would be taking the originality away as well… I guess for me there is a fine line on upgrades.
BTW if you user name has anything to do with Grand Nationals, I love those and miss mine dearly. My advice if you have one keep it!
As far as the originality goes, I hope you can see in this thread originality is important to me as I spent many hours of research and effort to make it as correct as I could. I guess you can say I took some “liberties” by adding dynamat but in my opinion it is something that after it’s installed it will never be seen after the carpet is installed. Not sure if you have an old car but I guess what you are also saying is that if you rebuilt the motor and bored it, changed the nylon timing chain with a roller, changed the Valve seats with hardened ones or changed to camshaft for a modern grind that would be taking the originality away as well… I guess for me there is a fine line on upgrades.
BTW if you user name has anything to do with Grand Nationals, I love those and miss mine dearly. My advice if you have one keep it!
#125
Last weekend I took it to its first show. The LI/NYC Olds spring dust off. It was a fun day and Won 1st in Class and Best in Show. It was definitely a proud moment after all the work! P.S. that’s my brothers black 70 W30 next to it.
#134
That's funny, I can relate. When I first bought my project, my wife would say things like "you going outside to work on your car again?" or "boy you sure spend a lot of time on that car" after I got paint on it and it was shiny she then would say "how's our car?" or "I really like our car's color" As it starts to come together now she says stuff like "how's my car?" "I cant wait to drive my car to work" "Everyone at work wants to see my car"................
#135
That's funny, I can relate. When I first bought my project, my wife would say things like "you going outside to work on your car again?" or "boy you sure spend a lot of time on that car" after I got paint on it and it was shiny she then would say "how's our car?" or "I really like our car's color" As it starts to come together now she says stuff like "how's my car?" "I cant wait to drive my car to work" "Everyone at work wants to see my car"................
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