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1966 CHEVY IMPALA

Before

Vision
we will do everything in house. When it's done we should be left with something special.

A work in progress
When the car first came to us it had no interior in it , no brakes, 4 different rims, no windows, but the body was pretty straight and it started up (which was pretty amazing being it sat for years!).The stock drums just won't cut it. Thanks to Kevin aka "BIGFOOT " we scored some spare front drum to disc brake conversion brackets. we yanked the brake master , booster, and proportioning valve out of a 8? Monte carlo ss that we bought for a couple hundred bucks along with the engine and transmission hoping we could make everything fit in the impala.

Monte booster/prop. valve/master ~Installed~

Monte Carlo SS brake booster

70-77 Camaro calipers, 69-72 Chevelle rotors

rear well patches

wheel well patch

driver floor patch "welded and seam sealed"

Upon putting the car up on the lift we saw that the mounting point for one of the trailing arms had been completely ripped out of the frame (see pic below).

  
   hole-y crap!

So we needed to make a new mount and weld it back into place (see pic below).

replacement plate for frame

trailing arm back in place

As of now the bodywork has been completed, so we are in the process of painting the car.

mark hard at work	we paint without spray booths!!!	Where'd the rust go?
Here are the fender wells finished	The engine bay complete	Closeup on the color

Check back later to see the progress...

UPDATE 7/2/2006
The Impala got its body painted and is slowly going back together. This project got a August '06 deadline but As you can see (below), we've got a long way to go.

Body "Hot Rod Black"

new bracket for the prop valve completed

heineken power

UPDATE (pics)9/14/2006

update: 1-11-2007

we actually finished this project by our due date less a few minor things. I'm really glad we got a chance to build it. I can't wait to get the bags in and take it on a long drive! As for now we still need to put in the air bags, switch out the dubs for some 15" hubs and we're back on the street raising hell!