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Originally Posted by bottledbird68
Wow, are you the first one on here with a running/driving 2nd gen?
Nice looking cars.
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Running/driving - HAH - so here's a story.
I did a quick prep of the 71 for the 2006 power tour, rip the entire suspension out, hotchkis suspension/springs, new exhaust, new everything underneath - it had to *drive* good. Had just enough time to do that. Figured - "it runs, its moves - ok Check, good enough (engine/tranny)". Get to DC, its like a 100 degrees out, crawling in rush hour traffic - POOF - there goes my head gasket. Discovered after that the damn heads were milled too far - crappy rebuild job, no way for the gaskets to properly seal.
The '71 went on the Northeast RodRun 2 years ago, I'm changing out the engine (again) this year and taking it this fall.