The longest story gone short

[Keith]

Well, I ducked out for awhile and had to wait for the smoke to clear. My original financial backer went kindof retarded with the chevelle beyond my control awhile ago with a few things. Recently, desperate to get out from underneath it, she put it up on ebay as an unfinished car, poorly respresented. Desperate not to let the car go, I convinced a friend of mine to purchase it so that I could finish it my way and the car would at least be what I once set out to build. Also, I wanted to make sure the few sponsors we had saw their investments through. I've been working on the car again for the last three weeks and I just delivered the car to my friend on Wednesday to do some final undercarraige and paint detail. The car is finally complete. In frustration with an untuned fuel injection system, the previous backer had a shop convert the car over to carburetion without my consent or knowledge until it had been finished. Aside from that, a roll cage and some interior trim, the car is virtually the car I designed three and a half years ago. I learned some valuable and expensive lessons in the process.
There was a lot of trauma and I have many friendships to fix but I wanted to post here and let you guys know that I didn't go down and I didn't give up. I fought hard for what I believed in and although shaky at first I can finally tell you guys that I'm proud of this car that I've built. It runs amazing, handles like crazy and stops like a tow line grabbed it on an aircraft carrier. I have a lot of people to thank and I don't want to make this post some kind of crappy oscar speech. There are a lot of people on this site that made a lot of things on this car possible and all of you know who you are. Marcus Savitske especially deserves a lot on this car and I'm working on getting him some worthwhile recognition for it. So here's a quick crappy video and some pictures. Thank you guys for everything. The website is being redone and the final version will be up Monday night for more info. It's going to be www.genesischevelle.com

-Keith

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2024420450

[camcojb]

good job Keith, says a lot about you sticking it out.

Jody

[Mr.VENGEANCE]

one of the nicest Chevelles ive seen.. style is right up my alley..:thumbsup:

[zbugger]

Awesome car. Way to stick with it. And it looks incredible. I would love to hear it idling. And maybe in in-car video.... And maybe some shots of the interior. Hell, I wanna go down there and go for a cruise!!!

[ProTouring442]

That is one mean lookin' Chevelle! :hail:

Great Job!


Shiny Side Up!
Bill
'72 442 "Inamorata"
'89 ASC/McLaren
www.FQuick.com/ProTouring442

[d touring]

Very nice!
Glad you stuck with it!!:yes:

[RedRyder]

Knowing you stuck with it will make you enjoy it all the more. Way to build the car you wanted

[rockdogz]

Great job, looks killer!

[Keith]

Thanks you guys..I feel like I've been here for awhile and spent the last year in hiding just waiting for things to get better. I appreciate your support and your comments...I'll have more pics up soon.

[aonghus]

I had wondered what happened to your project. Sucks when people get squirrelly.

I think the full extent of your signiture quote applies here bud:

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race”

- C. Coolidge

Car looks mighty sharp. :D

[Bandit Ls-1]

that car is awesome man, glad u hung in their and built something different that is awesome.

[va72mlibu]

When I saw the car on Ebay I thought that was the nail in the coffin. Glad to see you rescued your vision and got it done on your terms. That's really cool. Future plans for the car?

[Keith]

Well, we have a car show this sat and then one the entire following weekend. After that, I want to make sure the car settles all of it's build goals. We wanted the car to do over 160MPH, do 12.00 or better in the 1/4, do a lateral-g over the 200' pad and stop from 60-0 in less than 120'. The only one I'm not totally sure on is the brakes. The car stops like crazy but my dd does 60-0 in 117' and I know the chevelle is not quuuiiittteeee there. Plus its so much heavier than the Corvette whose brakes we choose for it. We'll probably come in at 130-135' after tuning the prop valve. I tried to make as much of the serviceable parts on the car as OE as possible so that if there ever was a catastrophe and the car was being driven, a trip to the auto parts store or (worst case) the dealer would be the fix. The brakes were no exception.
Of course, my friend could just succumb to greed and sell it to make a buck (he's already been offered a lot more than he paid for it) but hopefully I'll get a bit more time with it or sell myself with the car to the new owner if it does get sold. I'm grateful to have the time I get with it now, y'know? I'll take good pics and video when it does happen...should be fun to see high quality video of the car being tortured like I wanted it to be. :cool:

P.S. Website is still not done yet...just have the splash page up for reference...hopefully everything will be up by tomm night.

[67Sally]

It is good to see this project again. Everything looks great.
W

[jonny51]

Looks like he is getting rid of it.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Chevrolet-Chevelle-Custome-1970-Custome-Chevelle_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ6164QQihZ009QQ itemZ190107534376QQrdZ1

[Mr.VENGEANCE]

daaaaamn that sucks..

[Keith]

I have a big show with it this weekend....I doubt anyone will offer him 50K for it without video or seeing it in person. I'm sure i'll still have it for a few more weeks at least. I've had it and have been driving it for the last week...it's been fun. Finally made some of my work worth while. The plugs show she's running a little lean so I got a kit from edelbrock and I'll be playing with that tommorow. But yes, overall it sucks. At least it's a finished car this time. Hopefully the new owner will put a cage in it and rip the leather floor out. There's a brand new carpet under it.

[Nick.V70]

I know this is old but what ever happened to this Chevelle...bad ass car!!!

[Nick.V70]

No one remembers this car? Pretty sick car:thumbsup: