The CCC Does A Full Front Suspension and Brakes Today

[lars]

Hey guys!!
Great fun doing the suspension, steering & brakes!! I predict the next one we do we'll have the whole job down to under 4 hours... Actually, since the '64 has 4-wheel drum brakes, the brake job took about as much time as the entire suspension rebuild, so I'll bet we can do the whole front end/bushings/springs, steering job in 3 hours flat. With beer. A lot of beer....

And like Kurt says... that same car was painted by the CCC. We pulled the car in for paint at about 10 in the morning and starting mixing Bloody Marys. We had it prepped, masked, basecoated, clearcoated, baked, unmasked, and back on the trailer by mid afternoon. No joke. One observer was once heard to say, "These guys are unreal... the more they drink, the faster they work...!"

Our only problem is that we're so damned old that we ache and hurt for 2 weeks after each project.... this is our pacing factor.

 

[vigman]

So Lars

Why do the Guys BAG on you so much?

( opening a can O worms here)


Vig!

 

[67HEAVEN]

Re: So Lars

Why do the Guys BAG on you so much?

( opening a can O worms here)


Vig!

Believe me, Vig, there is nothing but this... :BOW ... for Lars and his skills.

 

[blkblt]

Re: So Lars

Why do the Guys BAG on you so much?

( opening a can O worms here)


Vig!

Vig. You have to understand....
We all :BOW to Lars. However, he is a strange fellow, of dubious ancestry, questionable personal habits, and nefarious present background.... He also blows snot-bubbles and tends to drool at the most inauspecious occasions. He was bred of the Viking Berserkers; historic Norwegians who ransacked all but the French, who they made the mistake of leaving pretty much intact... Thus, he carries these genetic characteristics in his very DNA code, leaving the rest of us constantly wondering when he might just wander off and begin tuning the 88 Buick of a local bluehair.....

That probably didn't answer your question, but hey! We still love the guy....
:crazy :Roll :Twist :dance :BOW

*************
Jeff

 

[Milehigh66]

Lars also has the strange habit of walking into the backyard when the phone rings. None of us has figured this one out yet.

Kurt, CCC

 

[lars]

Yes, the guys do bag on me a bunch, don't they..? But it's just jealousy.. plain and simple. It all stems from an incident not long ago: We were all standing there together at the urinal trough at a Barry Manilow concert....

I also have the nickname "Hoss."

Len -
I did try out for Junkyard Wars, and I have the tryout video. It's funniest to watch while drunk: we actually lit a guy on fire.... (no kidding).

 

[JRMaroon]

Tell us a little about what looks like a Chevelle in the garage.

Great Work! Looks like fun.

 

[lars]

Close guess on the "Chevelle," but not quite...
It's a '67 Beaumont Convert. Canadian-built Pontiac that's a cross bewteen a GTO and a Chevelle. Uses the Chevy 396 "Econo-Fire" engine with a TH400. I'm building it for a customer, and it was really rough when I started: the frame was so rusted that you couldn't open the doors with 4 people in the car... I replaced the frame with an El Camino boxed frame that I shortened a few inches to make it fit. The frame and all the suspension components are powdercoated, and everything under the car is new. I painted the bottom of the body the finish color of the car before dropping it onto the frame. The car has new fenders, and I re-skinned the doors. The quarters had been hacked up pretty good, so there's a lot of handwork in them to make them right. I'm finally in the final blocking stages to get all the panels perfectly straight - trying to get it ready for paint and delivery this spring. Going basecoat/clearcoat, of course. I'll be recruiting the CCC when it comes time for the miserable wet sanding prior to paint, masking, and color-sanding after paint...

 

[67HEAVEN]

Interesting cars - those Beaumonts, Lars.

Those of you unfamiliar with them, there's a photo of a red 1967 SD396 convertible on my page dedicated to that wonderful year.....1967

http://www.computersupport.ca/Restoration/happening.htm

P.S. Yes it's a SD396....not SS. SD stands for Sport Deluxe.

 

[IH2LOSE]

Great job guys

I do have a question where you guys freinds and all joined up on the forum,Or is it vice versa that the forum brought you guys together?

 

[Milehigh66]

Great job guys

I do have a question where you guys freinds and all joined up on the forum,Or is it vice versa that the forum brought you guys together?

IH2LOSE,
Steve and I have known each other for almost 28 years, we grew up in the same neighborhood and have always been into cars. Steve had a 68 vette and was having a distributor problem and called Lars after meeting him on the forum, only problem was that Steve had a broken leg and couldn't drive his car up to Lars place, so I drove Steve's vette for him and met Lars for the first time. We all hit it off really quickly.
Jeff met lars off of the forum when he wanted his 66 tuned previoius to our meeting and they had been getting together every once and a while.
Lars introduced Jeff to Steve and I and we all got pleasingly drunk in Lars driveway. The core group of the ccc was born on that drunk day.
John and John heard of us on the forum and have been coming ever since and there are others that join for the fun when time allows.

Hows that for a story
Kurt

 

[IH2LOSE]

TOO COOL

I met up with a couple of forum folks a couple of times last year but they were mostly C5 guys

 

[58Mike]

You guys must know how envious the rest of us are!

A few months back, Mel Foye, Duke and I met at Brad Waller's to install an engine. It was a nice day, but Brad's not really set up for car projects on a regular basis, so we haven't had a repeat day yet. Or maybe they did and took care not to invite ME! He wouldn't still be mad just because I spilled Coke in the carb, would he?

- Mike Greene

 

[Ken]

Is Mel going to join you guys in coming here now? I haven't seen him in two or three years I guess.

_ken

 

[greg454]

Hey CCC's I finally got around to registering on here, this is a pretty cool forum. Question, since I had to leave early Sunday did you guys ever figure out what that spacer was under the pass side coil spring, did it get reinstalled?

Greg

 

[Milehigh66]

Hey CCC's I finally got around to registering on here, this is a pretty cool forum. Question, since I had to leave early Sunday did you guys ever figure out what that spacer was under the pass side coil spring, did it get reinstalled?

Greg

Hey Greg, glad you made it over here, it's a real nice forum with very helpful admins and mods and great members.

Yes, we did put the spacer back in. We kinda figured it was there for a reason like leveling the car correctly. The deciding factor was when John M. said leave it out and blame Steve's wife for putting on weight. Steve quickly considered the value of his life and said put it in now.

Good to see you on Sunday, bring the band sometime. WE already have an official brewer (cosledgehammer) so an official CCC band seems in order.

Kurt

 

[blkblt]

The CCC

Great job guys

I do have a question where you guys freinds and all joined up on the forum,Or is it vice versa that the forum brought you guys together?

IH2LOSE:

Kurt pretty well covered it. I happened on Lars on the other forum a few years back and saw he lived pretty close by, so I got his phone number and gave him a call. It was Saturday and he said to drop by Sunday. My wife and I took a cruise and dropped by. He was standing in the driveway as we pulled in, and before I could introduce either of us, he said, "Pop the hood, the timing is way off [sounded fine to me]." I did, and within the first 45 minutes, we were drinking beer and he had pulled and rebuilt my distributor, reinstalled it, changed out the springs to get total in quicker, and retimed it to 13/37 in at about 2800. What a difference!! And, I didn't even know the guy. I offered him some cash...he refused it absolutely and got us another round.

That is Lars. The rest is history. :dance :BOW We only rag him because he's a Viking and speaks 7 languages, and we all have trouble with the only one we've learned..... The CCC was from the very beginning a very strong bunch. Everyone clicks, has a tremendous sense of humor - sophmoric and sophisticated, knows how to get a job done and done right quickly, and knows how to check egos at the door. Lars is, if not the backbone, then the brains of this bunch. But, it is ALL fun for all of us...thats the joy.

Oh yeah. Did mention the part about beer...really GOOD ......



***************
Jeff
Plastic '66

 

[blkblt]

Hey CCC's I finally got around to registering on here, this is a pretty cool forum. Question, since I had to leave early Sunday did you guys ever figure out what that spacer was under the pass side coil spring, did it get reinstalled?

Greg

Hey, Greg.

Good to see you stop by! You just never know what is going to fall out of these old plastic cars when you start taking stuff off...... With mine, it was an entire socket set from various places..... :eyerole :eek

Hope you can stop by for the next session....probably CO Sledgehammer's engine switch....maybe he'll have the Crew Brew ready then...



***************
Jeff

 

[blkblt]

The CCC

Great job guys

I do have a question where you guys freinds and all joined up on the forum,Or is it vice versa that the forum brought you guys together?

IH2LOSE:

Kurt pretty well covered it. I happened on Lars on the other forum a few years back and saw he lived pretty close by, so I got his phone number and gave him a call. It was Saturday and he said to drop by Sunday. My wife and I took a cruise and dropped by. He was standing in the driveway as we pulled in, and before I could introduce either of us, he said, "Pop the hood, the timing is way off [sounded fine to me]." I did, and within the first 45 minutes, we were drinking beer and he had pulled and rebuilt my distributor, reinstalled it, changed out the springs to get total in quicker, and retimed it to 13/37 in at about 2800. What a difference!! And, I didn't even know the guy. I offered him some cash...he refused it absolutely and got us another round.

That is Lars. The rest is history. :dance :BOW We only rag him because he's a Viking and speaks 7 languages, and we all have trouble with the only one we've learned..... The CCC was from the very beginning a very strong bunch. Everyone clicks, has a tremendous sense of humor - sophmoric and sophisticated, knows how to get a job done and done right quickly, and knows how to check egos at the door. Lars is, if not the backbone, then the brains of this bunch. But, it is ALL fun for all of us...thats the joy.



***************
Jeff
Plastic '66

 

[greg454]

The deciding factor was when John M. said leave it out and blame Steve's wife for putting on weight. Steve quickly considered the value of his life and said put it in now

Kurt

The ccc's are smart too!