Originally Posted by BigBlockBill (Post 611659)

What ever became of the original Grand Prix??

Originally Posted by Mark Yacavone (Post 611818)

You had a 4bbl. GP before the project car, right?

Originally Posted by Billy Nees (Post 611793)

It (hopefully) served its purpose and has gone to project car heaven.

Originally Posted by chris ok (Post 611852)

Is that the one you had run previously?
Had the cardboard piece by r/f bumper filler.
I remember it from Cecil Divisional.
I think you beat a copo in it first round? Am I remembering right?
It’s been a while. I had some good pics but in old computer on a shelf now.

Originally Posted by Billy Nees (Post 362645)

Bob, Bob, Rick and Tony, I appreciate the offers but I am going to try and stick to my plan of "diming" it together myself to see if it can be done.
I spent the day in the shop taking apart the rear and pulling out the power brakes to change it over. As there aren't very many manual brake S-10s laying around anymore, I'm making up a few pieces to convert the GP. Hopefully tomorrow I'll take some pics of what's needed to SAFELY do the job.
I scored a good used 4.56 gearset and a 2 series posi unit with spacer for $100 bucks so that should pretty well get this thing rolling. Now I know that it's not the optimal thing to use but the price is right and it's only going to (hopefully) be a high 14 second car that doesn't weigh a whole lot so maybe it'll live a while.
I got a pair of 15X 8 wagon wheels and a pair of 15x 4 sparetire wheels out of the wheel pile at a local salvage yard(they don't like to be called junk yards anymore). I have an old set of 8.5x 26 M/T slicks that I won't use again and dragged home a pair of 26" tall M/T fronts from along side of the M/T trailer a couple of years ago so, after buying a can of black paint, I'm set with wheels and tires for $35.
As it's snowing like crazy outside, I'm hoping to get a fair amount done in the next couple of days.

Originally Posted by BigBlockBill (Post 653638)

Going back through this post almost 10 years later and I am SO glad this went the direction it did and didn't turn into a "class racer build". Is this car still around?