I’ve slowly been making way on this project. I got the front clip off it, pulled the flatty Monday, slid the V8 in it Tuesday. I still have to make the mounts, I plan to do that Sunday when a friend of mine comes over to help.

Sorry for the lack of updates – I’ve been working pretty much 6 days a week and logging just about 50 hours each week so I haven’t been on much.
I ended up traded my 1964 Pontiac Catalina that was my daily driver for this 1950 Pontiac Chieftain, the first week of March ‘10. If you [...]

I noticed I had an axle shaft seal leaking when I replaced all my wheel cylinders a few weeks ago. I ordered a new seal from Kanter for $22 and replaced the leaky seal. Kanter was the only place I found that had this seal.

It has been a crazy winter here, but now it seems the weather has finally broke enough for me to get the 52 back out and run it some.

I picked me up this set of hubcaps back in July, I’m not sure exactly what year they are, but I like them. I got them at the friends of coal auto fair swap meet for $25. They were so dirty you could barely make out the Pontiac scripting on them.
I also took the fender [...]

Well after dealing with a stubborn fuel issue (Which turned out to be my fuel tank) I decided to pull out the old Flatty out and drop in my rebuilt 268 Straight Eight and 54 Hydra-matic transmission. The new engine is basically stock, but it is bored .060 over to a 278. Over all the [...]

Here’s an update on my interior… June 2009 – It took me about 4 years to get around to doing this, but I finally bought the materials to put together some…

Well, I got bored and drew out some flames on my car a few weeks prior to painting them. I drove it around for a while with the sketch on it until I finally got the nerve to mask it off and spray them…

What my car looks like as of 7.26.07

Lighted hood ornament I purchased on ebay for $152!
What’s been done since the last update:
- New intake and exhaust manifold gaskets installed
- New fuel pump and rebuilt the carburator
- Had the starter professionally rebuilt, and installed new battery wires
- New points and plugs (put 10,000 miles on the [...]

This picture was taken on March 2nd 2006. It’s the first one i’v taken in awhile and the last one as of the moment.
I had the car stored in a garage for the past 3 months to keep it out of the bad weather. Got it out and took it out for awhile.
The day before [...]