Drivetrain Work

Ray did a great job of cleaning and painting the engine block.  Vince then did a lot of assembly work, plus cleaning of components.

For example, here's the carbs with one clean and the other not:

They were pretty nasty.  Vince also found some broken and worn out pieces of the carb linkage.  Basically the choke higher idle speed was not functional, plus the choke linkages are all "wallered out".  But these are all components that can be easily replaced.  I'll bet this thing was hard to get going when cold. 

Here's two shots of the engine cleaned up with most components in place:

We also got the transmission back from it's rebuild:

We have a plan of attack for mating the body to the frame.  Ray and Vince will install the drivetrain in the chassis and deliver is to Darrell's body shop.  Meantime, Darrell will finish body prep and paint the under hood area only.  Ray and Vince help Darrell drop the body onto the chassis.  The engine compartment will be in finished state but the exterior of the body will need to still be painted.  Once Darrell finishes paint then it's back to Ray's shop to finish the car!