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Well our first vacation in a few years just wound up in the "pull chain facility" We were all paid and signed up to go on a Jeep Jamboree at Land between the Lakes Kentucky next month. We have been there several times before and the area is great in everyway and many acres of Off Road Park to explore. Yesterday we get an E Mail from Jeep Jamboree telling use that they were refunding us everything except a $97.00 fee for their inconvenience for having to cancel the Jamboree. They claim that we were notified at the end of July but we are unable to find any E Mails from them on the subject. Based on this we had reserved and paid for a cabin thru Rent by Owner. Because of the time frame of canceling the rental we are now out half of that cost. We called Jeep Jamboree in California and the guy just keeps giving us the run around and told us to send our questions in an E Mail and then gives us a bogus E Mail address. Phone calls today to try to make human contact have gone unanswered. While they have told us this event has been canceled effective July 28 as of noon today they still have it listed on their web site as open for sign up. I would suggest any one here that has any Jamborees that they're signed up for this year should be proactive with them. I think that there may even be bigger issues with the organization at this time based on the manor in which they are reacting at this time. We have attended many of these events going back over a decade and they have always been a pleasure to deal with at all times. The way they are acting at this time has me thinking they are having some very big operational issues and keeping a fee for their inconvenience when they cancelled the event and not returning 100 % plus not letting us know in a more timely manor so that we're not out the cost of lodging is unacceptable to me.

I enjoyed watching this come together. You always do "Old" so well on your builds. I like looking at all the little touches here and there .

I believe it. If you recall your teen years can be difficult at best and he always played the music we enjoyed and while he would be a little goofy at times he was always a positive influence on the air and that might have been why he was so popular with us as teens.

I'll have to do that. I was in high school at the time and lived out in what was then consider the "sticks". I think we all felt like we knew him, he was that type of a DJ, but no I never got to meet him. That said if he's still doing radio he must not of been any older than we were at that time.

I would just rip the door decals off of it and display it as a work in progress or sale just as is. Sorry to hear of Ron's passing. Violent city streets and all.

One thing I like about their clearance items, they price them to sell. Used to be they were the same as if you used the coupon, not bad if it was a subject you really wanted. Now at these prices I just look and see if there is any parts I might want or need a just buy it.

I had a set of Corvette 15 x 8 Rally's with 235/60 x 15 tires. seems anything bigger would rub on turning in and out of driveways. Of course this was are 1978 and 1979 and the only 16"ers or bigger were on Farm Trucks. Just a standard 350 4bbl and turbo 350 and the 28" glass packs had a real nice rumble to them. One owner that I picked up at around 85k miles and it never used any oil or had any leaks.

Care for it in the same manor as the original owner and it should last a very long time, and it's not hard to look at either.

I also enjoy watching his show. Very interesting to see how he brings a fairly complex restyling together with some pretty basic tools and just using his skills. I also enjoy his low key demeanor, no wrench throwing and other theatrics so many other programs fall into. The "Inspectors" are cool and sometime funny.

Those are great road cars. I owned a '72 for several years and added the factory F41 springs, sway bars front and rear, and a set of KYB shocks. With a wheel base just a little longer than a Chevelle and the engine siting just behind the front wheels these had a nice weight distribution and hiway tar strips don't upset the ride.

When I first got my Air Brush I had to use it all the time of course. After a year or so and being naturally the lazy type I have fallen back to using mostly rattle cans unless I'm trying to do a special effect or something on that order.

I remember "Sidewalk Surfin" but not this one. I do recall those narrow ties though, the only thing skinnier than that was our belts, and of course we were somewhat slimmer ourselves also.

So his old programs are still out there ? I knew him from the late '50's thru '61 when I left the area. Sounds like he had a successful career in Radio. Looking at your pictures of the tires and wheels it is hard to tell if these are unpolished hub caps or wheel backs. I was going to suggest some hub caps that may work if you haven't already found what you needed. From the picture of the car the hub caps remind me of what was used on the Chevelle at that time. These would be the full wheel covers from either the '66 El Camino or the '66 Chevelle wagon. The center emblem on these would be the Chevrolet "Bow Tie" but Oldsmobile had the same basic hub cap but with an Oldsmobile emblem in the center. These were just small plastic pieces of trim that GM used. The cost of one hub cap design that could be used on two or three of their lines.

Air ride could be an option for the rear suspension as would a coil over set up that maybe a little more common I would think. As for the room for all this to fit up under the Turtle .Deck rear body what I have seen often done is the rear portion of the body/ trunk/ turtle deck is raised slightly on the rear of the body tub. This would allow you to raise the rear cross member to which the leaf springs would be attached and also give you a place for the battery and gas tank. One of the reasons you see many of these T buckets with a short pickup bed is that it offers just a little bit more room in a very limited area of the body.

Great looking finish and I like how you converted it to a 4X4.

Great looking conversion. Nice looking paint and finish.

Really looks like an abandoned old car.

This still looks like a fresh build.

Great looking Ghia. Very clean chrome trim and the color is perfect of course.

Looking good to this point. This is a great kit and you should enjoy it.

This should be fun. My radio station when I lived in that area was "WIND the Windy City station" . The DJ was Dick Beyonda or something like that. He billed himself as the "Wild Italian" .

I have to agree on that one and I also have built a few. While it is a fun quick build it's pretty basic as far as details, of course that leaves it up to the builder to fabricate everything and not everyone is into that much extra work. My point was to mention that nothing new has come along in a T for many years.

I'm sure you realize that there is no way to get the tires under any stock fenders if they are even a consideration. My thought for the rear setup would be the quick change center with axle tubes just long enough for the leaf springs to mount before the backing plates for the rear brakes. You may want to figure out some sort of shock absorber and mountings.

I really good alignment operator who actually understands how to align a car, or anything else for that matter, has to first understand the function of the different parts and how they effect each other in function. This is not learned in a one evening or weekend class. This requires basic understanding of the suspension and how it reacts when in motion. Maybe he has an APP for that.

The end caps look almost like the 1:1's were from the factory since they usually didn't match all that well anyway. The Bumper gaps are a little wide but the main thing is to have the bumper not tilted up or down on the end otherwise it will draw the eye to it.