Well you don’t see this every day. Followed him for a bit, hoping that rear door would flop open and drop a Lambo in my lap….no such luck!!!!
#Lamborghini
Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A. is an Italian brand and manufacturer of luxury sports cars and, formerly, SUVs, which is owned by the Volkswagen Group through its subsidiary brand division Audi.
Founder: Ferruccio Lamborghini – I’d like to have a car named after me!!!
Founded: May 1963, Sant’Agata Bolognese, Italy
Customer service: 1 (866) 681-6276 – Number is here in case you wanted to order one or file a complaint
CEO: Stefano Domenicali – We have beers whenever I’m in Italy – not really.
Latest models: 2016 Lamborghini Aventador, 2016 Lamborghini Huracan #IWantOne of each!!!!
Parent organization: Audi
It’s pretty cool to happen upon a car show in the course of running weekend errands. I normally have a calendar event for the major shows and/or the ones I plan on attending. But now and then I see one in passing, and of course I am compelled to stop and usually do. Sometimes there are some real gems. By gens I mean cars you don’t see at the average car show as they may not be in top condition or even restored at all (that doesn’t stop me) and the owners would enter them.
You don’t need shiny paint to go to a car show. Here’s #ProjectSportsRoof at its first car show.
A couple of weeks ago I picked up my son at his place and we took care of some business. I always have my ‘old car’ radar on and it went off as we passed a little church. We had finished all of our tasks so I stopped. There may have been 15 cars in the parking lot with hoods up and doors open. True to form there were a few cars that one rarely sees at a car show.
This awesome Fox-body Mustang Vert was in the line-up:
Fox-Body Vert w/ Whale Tail!
Oh MAN!! Look at that plumbing!!!!
There was this 1964 Chrysler 300 K. You don’t see many of these at a show. Love that it’s a 2 door.
’64 Chrysler 300 K
Cool Steering Wheel!!
Here is a rare sight!!! Mercury Comet Caliente VERT!!!!
This Comet is in O.K.shape
This cars is nicely preserved and a little body work has been done, but still very nice car.
But this next car was my favorite as unlikely as that may seem, I’d buy this car and I’d show it big time!!! Check out this 1974 Mustang II:
I think it’s a sharp little car!!!
Nice wheels!!!!
Yeah..that’s a V8 – 302!!
Still lots of room under that hood.
Interior is so awesome.
You can tell that this car was stripped and restored. It was painted with, even the interior, with a white rhino lining/satin like paint. It is just amazing and I’m was impressed.
You can see my 2007 C6 and the 1973 Mustang (#ProjectSportsRoof) and my son’s 1991 Chrysler Le Baron vert and good friend’s 2011 Mustang vert(with the nicest seats ever!!!).
Constant reader of this blog Bill and my son Ryan
This was my son Ryan’s first car he’s entered in a car show. The 1991 Le Baron is a true collector and is in excellent survivor condition with over 140k miles he is the only the second owner. Bill (sitting next to my son) was the Le Baron’s first owner – that’s Bill’s 2011 Mustang V6!!!
Besides those cars – here is my favorite late 50’s car at the show.
Clean 282 Engine!!
One of my favorite attributes….a painted dash!!!
The fender skirts are great and the detailed side molding is outstanding!!! (And all original!!)
This 1956 Ford Fairlane Club Sedan has 282 engine, 3 speed column shift and has just over 30k original miles. It all original except the tires (the spare is original). This was an Ebay buy and originated in PA.
There were a couple beautiful pickups and a Lotus and 1988 Shelby Dodge Charger – very cool!!
The voting, interestingly enough, was done by the car owners and everyone that came to view the cars.
Trophies were handed out and one of the winner was this car:
#ProjectSportsRoof took home one in the 1970’s/Under Construction category
Yup lots of love shown to my 1973 Mustang SportsRoof.
It was a small but fun show. Lots of time to have long conversations with the owners and the crowd.
Thanks to Hagerty Insurance, Mothers Wax and Car Guy Garage for supporting the car show. We raised awareness and money for Southern Arizona Autism Society!!
Oh…and if you are in Tucson, AZ there is a walk that raised money for this worthy cause as well.
A fun car show for a GREAT cause!!! Autism Society of Southern Arizona.
JOIN US ON MARCH 5, 2016
Bring your classic beauty, your muscle machine, your chopper, your tuner, your daily driver or your project car!!!! Heck – bring your farm tractor!!!! You’ll get a swag bag with goodies (Car Guys Garages free t-shirt offer, Hagerty Insurance and more) and a cool T-Shirt. There will be raffles for collectible die-cast cars, and other prizes from O’rielly’s Auto Parts, Hot Rods at Old Vail Road, car wash packages and more.
Come on out and hang out with some cool cars!!!!
FUN AND A GREAT CAUSE!!!!!
I’ll be there with my 1973 Mustang and 2007 Corvette!!
In a earlier post I picked out two sleeper cars that were totally awesome (does anyone use that phrase any more?). Here is how they did at auction.
The odd Pontiac Beaumont – Chevelle/Nova/Chevy II build by GM and sold North of the border by Pontiac-Buick dealerships throughout Canada brought a nice price. Seems someone liked the 375hp, 396 – Chevelle SS trim car to the tune of $32,000.00 (USD). Yeah…no kidding!!!!
I love this car!!!
The other sleeper was a 1966 Chevy Chevelle 300 Deluxe. It was a plain jane looking Chevy with painted steel wheels. But it had a big surprise – 502 crate GM motor with 502 hp. AWESOME!!!! As was the hammer price…………………… $41,800.00. WOW!!!!
Of course there were many, many other awesome cars. Look for a few more posts on the Barrett-Jackson auction from last week.
I just have to add one more sleeper car slated to be auctioned off in Scottsdale this week. You might be surprised at this little gem.
Since you know by the title that it’s a Pontiac (or is it?) let me show you a badge on the car to give you a hint. Don’t scroll all the way down yet!!
Hey it’s a Pontiac Sports Deluxe? Not exactly!!
It is a 1967 Pontiac Beaumont!
Looks like a plain Jane Pontiac from the backside!!
It’s got a V8!!
Love the side vents!!!
The Beaumont was a GM based Canadian car sold at Pontiac-Buick dealerships in Canada. Through out it’s production years of 1962 – 1969 it was based on a the Chevelle, the Chevy II and the Nova, all at different point on it’s time line. The Sports Deluxe (SD) was in fact the same trim level as the Chevy Chevelle SS – hence the engine option below.
This one is restored to original, including paint color and it has date-code-correct 396 engine tweaked a bit to produce 375 HP.
Now that’s a sleeper!!!!!
Should be crossing the auction block on Thursday 1/28.
As usual I don’t think anyone will be disappointed with the lineup of cars for this years Barrette-Jackson Auctions in Scottsdale, AZ.
I spent the entire day looking over the offering and even with other auctions running just before, during and just after, you are going to see some great auction fun!!!
One of my favorites of course are the Mustangs and there are plenty there!!! That being said, I did not see a single 71-73 Mustang in the tents – but I do see at least one in the catalog. But you have to love what was on display in one corner of this massive complex.
If you remember a of couple months back, shortly after bringing the ’73 Mustang home, I conducted a compression test on all the cylinders. The 351C was running rough (to put it mildly) and smoked like a pile of tires on fire (only the smoke was blue). Clearly there were some issues.
Here are the links to the posts were you can view the compression tests – RIGHT BANK – LEFT BANK.
To summarize, the cylinders topped out like this:
Cylinder 1 (Left Bank) – 130
Cylinder 2 – 25, 35, 60, 90 (Fail!!!)
Cylinder 3 – 140
Cylinder 4 – 135
Cylinder 5 (Right Bank) – 160
Cylinder 6 – 155
Cylinder 7 – 160
Cylinder 8 – 140
Clearly cylinder 2 has a serious problem and it could a host of things. Since it was so bad, I didn’t feel it necessary to conduct a wet test and just planned out pulling the heads.
Well the time came to get take care of that and it wasn’t long to disassembling that it was clear what was wrong with cylinder 2.
What the….?
At first we thought…”Hey Cool!!! Extra parts!!” But of course that’s just not the case!!
No extra parts.
It couldn’t be that the tappet just rolled there. Something else has to be an issue.
Oh…maybe…one of these was the problem?
Ya Think???!!!
Close inspection of the piston in cylinder 2 showed no signs of impact. As it appears thus far, that the bottom end of the engine is in good shape and the compression numbers for all the other cylinders and we bolstered that assumption with a visual inspection.
Thanks for reading. Tim. #ProjectSportsRoof. projectsportsroof. 1973 Mustang Project Sportsroof – Engine Walk-Through. There is a quick walk-through of the 351C tucked between the fenders of the 1973 Mustang Sportsroof.
#ProjectSportsRoof. projectsportsroof. 1973 Mustang – Project SportsRoof – Compression Test Part I. I’ve done all the clean up and all the adjustments necessary to get a good reading on the health of the ’72 351C engine in …
Continuing on with the leaks and Pertronix install on the 351C, below you’ll see the cleaned up valve covers (BTW – only the right side was leaking – which may explain the gunked up spark plug).
As I was cleaning up the valve cover gaskets and notices a couple more issue that need addressing.
Let me know your thoughts on the transmission cooling lines.
Finally we get to the main event for this past weekend wrenching, the install of the Pertronix Ignition system. (Yeah…I didn’t think I’d get here either.)
This a relatively easy install, unless you are me!!!! You’ll see in the video – it really wasn’t related to the Pertronix.
Here’s what is being installed.
It will replace these.
Now I’m not going to show the install CJ Pony had a good video on the process and I don’t have a camera guy to take the shot. Here’s a link: CJ Pony Install
So the audio is not that great on this clip but it is running better then previously. You’ll notice toward the end of this clip…a new problem!
I’ll address that in the last part of this section.
There is a quick walk-through of the 351C tucked between the fenders of the 1973 Mustang Sportsroof. (It took about 5 takes to get this video…a slight improvement.
#ProjectSportsRoof will be the way I want it, which I haven’t nailed down yet, so suggest way by dropping me a comment (got your crate motor idea swimming around in my head, Bill) and that will happen fast or slow and cost …
Welcome back to #ProjectSportsRoof. I run my car projects much like I run my IT projects. You always have to know where to start and know the end game. As with any project that isn’t being built from scratch, in other word, …
I get a lot of questions on just what I’m going to do with the Sports Roof. Some of those are posed as inquires of interest and others can be interpreted as “What the.
As I posted before, after a vigorous (not read ‘desperate’) I finally found my next personal project. The 1973 Mustang Sports Roof Fastback is what I settled on.
