1966 L79 Chevy II w/ 4365 miles

[jeffschevelle]

Awesome car, and great caretaking. And a Beautiful assembly line air filter, with correct 65-E68 large outlined-font embossed number and diagonal soldered mesh!!

[RPOLS3]

Originally Posted by Bill Pritchard

Compared to total 66 L79 Chevy II production, I can't imagine there were too many produced with smog.

L79, Smog, and TI - gets to be a pretty small number I bet.

Amazing car - great job cleaning it up. Thanks for sharing.

[67since67]

This group of pix takes my breath away...

[dykstra]

Looking at this car never gets old!

[Jamess113]

Originally Posted by jeffschevelle

Awesome car, and great caretaking. And a Beautiful assembly line air filter, with correct 65-E68 large outlined-font embossed number and diagonal soldered mesh!!

Thanks! Yeah, Pretty amazing its survived this long.

[Jamess113]

Originally Posted by 67since67

This group of pix takes my breath away...

I've taken so many pictures (2500 or so) but feel like I still haven't taken enough.

[Jamess113]

Originally Posted by Bill Pritchard

Compared to total 66 L79 Chevy II production, I can't imagine there were too many produced with smog. The tooling amortization costs for all those extra formed hoses, brackets, tubing, etc. has got to be pretty high. Thanks for doing such an amazing job of preservation and documentation on this incredible car

So many parts that are just specific to these cars in general. I've lean a lot from another member here that has really taken the time to help verify everything on the car is indeed correct and original. (clnovaparts ,Doug Mattew) Doug has been beyond helpful. You talk about tooling up for specific emissions parts and then you have 1st and 2nd design parts that they had to re-tool for also. Parts on early built cars are different from later built cars which make some of these parts very rare.

We've tried very hard not to lose any of the cars originality or patina. It was very nerve racking rebuilding the water pump as I had never done one before but it went well and I think anyone would be hard pressed to really notice we R&I it. I documented rebuilding it also if anyone wants to see pictures. Same with the fuel pump I was very careful in removing it to the point I was able to save the original fuel pump mounting plate gasket in one piece.

[Jamess113]

Originally Posted by jeffschevelle

Awesome car, and great caretaking. And a Beautiful assembly line air filter, with correct 65-E68 large outlined-font embossed number and diagonal soldered mesh!!

Hard to believe that it still all intact. Thanks!

[Jamess113]

Originally Posted by 60sStuff

Hi Jay,

Excellent photos of more engine bay components!
Love the part numbers inked on the hoses.

When you have time could we see both decals on the valve covers.

Since I’ll never be able to view this car in person, I’ve made a folder of all your pics to scrutinize at my leisure.

Thank you, Chris.

HI Chris, Thank you. I'll post up some pictures a little later

[Jamess113]

Originally Posted by 60sStuff

Hi Jay,

Excellent photos of more engine bay components!
Love the part numbers inked on the hoses.

When you have time could we see both decals on the valve covers.

Since I’ll never be able to view this car in person, I’ve made a folder of all your pics to scrutinize at my leisure.

Thank you, Chris.

Here you go Chris.