Gary 57 Chevy Fins! - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I'm happily married to her .

A real American Hero

Jimi @ Woodstock

My Interests

Family first, music, guitar playing, computers, some cars from the '50's, especially '57 Chevy's, gardening and morning glories, and dial tone :.

Music:

Rock, blues, lots of 90's rock. Jimi Hendrix and SRV rule. 10 Years After, Robin Trower, lot's of '60's music. I love the old names too, Frank, Stan, Bill Black.

Movies:

Fists of Fury (ANY Bruce Lee), Lord of War, It's the Rage, Don't be a Menace, Batman Begins, Snatch, Kill Bill 1 and 2, The Prestiege, Snakes on a Plane. Alot of older movies..

Television:

A few HBO series, Rome, Carnival, Six Feet Under. I hate regular TV. Also, Dexter (SHO). Nothing with commercials in it, they make me want to barf my guts out.

Books:

I like sci-fiction but I read car magazines and parts catalogs now :

Heroes:

My son on his way to Iraq:
US Service Men & Women, Bruce Lee, Chuck Yeager, Bullet Tooth Tony, Brick Top

My Blog

57 Chevy walk around- VIDEO-

A guided tour of my little piece of heaven :>Check out this video: 57 Chevy walk around ...
Posted by Gary 57 Chevy Fins! on Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:48:00 PST

2008-2009 winter project

Here's what's in store for replacement this winter. Inner and out rockers as well as all rusted floor braces. Should be a pretty good project. Looks to be alot more involved than replacing the trunk w...
Posted by Gary 57 Chevy Fins! on Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:38:00 PST

Dual Point Conversion - Part 2

Here we go. A little video of my distributor machine with the new/rebuilt distributor I'm tearing apart to put my Accel dual point conversion in. The sparker is really hard to see in the video, I gues...
Posted by Gary 57 Chevy Fins! on Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:31:00 PST

Dual point conversion

Since my electronic ignition conversion was a bust I'm going to install a dual point conversion in my '57. I'm going to use a different distributor as I don't want to hack up the stock 1965 one, it wo...
Posted by Gary 57 Chevy Fins! on Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:15:00 PST

Fixed my central air!

Stopped working on Thursday. Ended up being the run capacitor. You can see in this photo that the top is bulged, it should be flat. It was a $20 part. I also added a hard start capacitor (2nd photo, $...
Posted by Gary 57 Chevy Fins! on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:48:00 PST

Winemaking....2008

This is our first attempt at making our own wine. Sandy's brother has been making wine for a year or two and has gotten us interested. The grape juice we are using comes from Chile. We ordered it from...
Posted by Gary 57 Chevy Fins! on Sun, 18 May 2008 05:04:00 PST

Back on the road.............................

'57 Chevy is back on the road for the season! Repaired rusted drivers inner wheel flap, replaced 2nd gear in Muncie, put in new fuel sending unit in gas tank, working like a champ! Did burn...
Posted by Gary 57 Chevy Fins! on Fri, 16 May 2008 07:32:00 PST

Equus 3130 scan tool

I got this OBD II scan tool to check out my son John's Cavalier. I'm using it now to find a miss in Sandy's Oldsmobile once it warms up....the video is not too good but it works, it was hard to hold c...
Posted by Gary 57 Chevy Fins! on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 03:18:00 PST

PA State emissions inspection hell.......

If any of you have the unfortunate luck of living in an Emissions Inspection Maintenance county in Pennsylvania, you have my heart felt sympathy. My son Johnny and I just rebuilt his 1999 Chevy Cavali...
Posted by Gary 57 Chevy Fins! on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:25:00 PST

A company I love to hate.....

Milo G. Kellogg was one of the true telephonepioneers. He began his career in 1872 as a designengineer with Gray & Barton, a Chicago manufacturer oftelegraph equipment whose primary customer was W...
Posted by Gary 57 Chevy Fins! on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 06:26:00 PST