79 Camaro Project
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lol. No, my point was it doesn't take a rocket surgeon to realize that moving a suspension mount bolt up will lower the body, the same as playing with the other end at the shackles. It's just funny that it has a name. That's something my dad would have done, and maybe did, back in the 40's and 50's when guys started seriously messing with their cars. Unless that's the vintage of this guy, but I doubt he was the re-drill pioneer.
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I agree; Herb Adams sure wasn't the first guy to figure out how to redrill shackles to lower a car. Most budget minded hotrodders were doing it in the 50's or earlier to save building shorter shackles, or buying new. It's a great trick, but not a new idea, even in the 70's.
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Got the garage all cleaned up again tonight. I'm starting to consider instead of putting the parts car back together to keep it mobile, to just keep what I want and sell the rest of it off.
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Well I had to present at a school board meeting on our progress last night. Seems like more often than not something gets in the way of car time. Hopefully I'll get back at it tonight. I believe that my goal for the night is going to be to get some wood and build something to hold the rear end of the parts car up safely. I'm just going to try to sell the rear end and stuff.
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I've spent the last few days getting some stuff I won't need up for sale. I took the exhaust brackets off the rear frame rails, and the bump stops from the wheel wells to use on my project. I need to find new rubber though.
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Well, I can't think of anything else to do on the car without an engine. I will have to save up some funds in order to move forwards. I have gotten alot of work done here lately, and it'll have to be put on hold for a while. About the only thing I can do is put the bump stop brackets in the rear wheelwells, but I need new bumpstops so I may just as well wait until I can come up with some of them.