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My kit is a CMC I believe. You may recall seeing Chevettes with v8 conversions, although its been many years since I’ve seen a Chevette in any form. the v8 conversions were fairly common, the rear axle was the next weak point and I’ve seen an s-10 conversion useing the Chevette  coil springs, mounts, etc. I was hopeing to find a complete…[Read more]

Do you know who made your replica?  I just put a GM 60 degree V6 in place of a Chevette engine.  From the space around my engine, it looks like a V8 might have fit.

Being as those mirrors are known to fall off in hotter weather, I would try to gradually heat the area and get behind it with some fine wire, fishing line or something along those lines to slice through the adhesive. Carefully. Glass is fragile.

@edsnova ohh thanks for that link!

@pmossberg, your’e more than 1/2 the team! Thank you!

Ah now we’re having fun!

I had very good going with the Minwax Helmsman polyurethane over a product called Pelucid, which was spendy, but very strong and hard. The dash looks about as good today as when it was first done—and that’s saying quite a bit, especially if you look at how the rest of the car has weathered…

I let this long-term wood f…[Read more]

Thanks Stephen.

Yup. I deleted about 30 obviously scam user id’s this afternoon. and another fifteen that never made it past pending.

I also activated ten older registrants that never successfully activated their id’s.

Appreciate all you do for us!

Reviving my own thread from over a year ago. I’ve started building a new dashboard. Why I’m doing this during Maine’s short “driving season” is beyond me, so I’m just going with it. What follows are a series of pictures along the way. Enjoy.

First off… Oh my, what have I done! Look at all those wires.

Always handy to keep your reading…[Read more]

Thanks Paul

The Chevette has some major differences from the Pinto based car. My plan is to lower and extend the front suspension and lower and mount a different rear axle probably an s-10 the engine trans I have is a 1981 350 4 speed from a Camaro. The front will sit about 12″ ahead of the radiator. The front suspesion I want to use is from an…[Read more]