1966 L79 Chevy II w/ 4365 miles

[Jamess113]

Originally Posted by Steve Shauger

Jay thanks for sharing this stunning car. The details you have shown and time you spent providing countless pictures and responses to our questions is very much appreciated.

Very exciting news!! This car will be attending MCACN 2023, and will be Vintage Certified. Another reason to attend MCACN and see this iconic car in person.

Thanks Steve, Very excited about attending MCACN as I've always wanted to attend
and now I'm not only going but we're bringing a pretty cool car to boot.

No problem on sharing the pictures and info I enjoy it and if it helps others with their projects all the better. Hoping to share more as we slowly clean it up.

[bashton]

Great to have you joining us at MCACN!

This is sure to be a hit and of course, another reason for everyone to join us in November. Can't wait to see this one up close and in person in our Vintage Certification area.

Bashton

[Jamess113]

Originally Posted by bashton

Great to have you joining us at MCACN!

This is sure to be a hit and of course, another reason for everyone to join us in November. Can't wait to see this one up close and in person in our Vintage Certification area.

Bashton

Thank you! We're very excited to attend MCACN this year. I know this is going to be a lot of fun and can't wait.

[dykstra]

Originally Posted by Jamess113

Thank you! We're very excited to attend MCACN this year. I know this is going to be a lot of fun and can't wait.

We can’t wait either to lay eyes on such a significant car. So cool that you are bringing it to MCACN!

[ANDY M]

I just wanted to throw in this little trivia tidbit, since my brain is a treasury of useless information. The "THX" license plate belonged to George Lucas before he became famous.
That's the reason his unique sound system was called THX1138, and was the name of a robot in Star Wars before it went into production. He also produced American Graffiti.
Now back to your regular program....

[njsteve]

Actually THX 1138 is goes way farther back in time than that.

THX-1138 was a futuristic science fiction prison movie by George Lucas, filmed in 1969 but released in 1971. It was his first movie made as a school project while a film student at USC

It is renowned for the Lola T70s used in the chase scenes (and their destruction)

https://forums.hemmings.com/stories/...8-real-or-fake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5nm...nel=Movieclips

Lucas used the THX and 1138 monikers in pretty much all of his movies since them, like the license plate on Milner's coupe and various Star Wars references.

[Jamess113]

Originally Posted by njsteve

Actually THX 1138 is goes way farther back in time than that.

THX-1138 was a futuristic science fiction prison movie by George Lucas, filmed in 1969 but released in 1971. It was his first movie made as a school project while a film student at USC

It is renowned for the Lola T70s used in the chase scenes (and their destruction)

https://forums.hemmings.com/stories/...8-real-or-fake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5nm...nel=Movieclips

Lucas used the THX and 1138 monikers in pretty much all of his movies since them, like the license plate on Milner's coupe and various Star Wars references.

I didn't know that our 66 Chevy II had a George Lucus THX1138 connection? Lol. The read on the Lola t70s was pretty neat though even if it's way off topic. Lol.

[Jamess113]

Well we finally fired up the Chevy II yesterday afternoon. This is the first time this car has been started since 2016.

It been a long road to get it all cleaned up and running. We had rebuild the original water pump as the front seal was leaking pretty bad. We were very careful not to disturb any of the water pumps original patina. As I mentioned before we flushed out the fuel tank as it looked like a swamp inside, it was pretty nasty. We took the fuel pump off and apart to inspect it and flushed out all the fuel lines. The fuel lines were full sludge and after taking the fuel pump apart it was good we did as the upper part of the housing was starting to corrode. The diaphragm seamed to be in good shaped so the pump only needed a good internal cleaning. We rebuilt the carburetor which was done back in 2016 but we thought it was a good idea to go through it again just to make sure it was all in good shape with all new gaskets and we also flush out the cooling system. After a fresh oil change and filling the float bowls, she fired right up and sounded great.

There are still a few things to button it all up, but we're getting close. Were waiting for a correct style battery and once we have that we can put the battery hold down all back in place It been pretty amazing carefully cleaning the car up. Things that were cover over with dirt and grim can now been seen.

Here's a quick video of it running yesterday and a few pictures of it outside in the sun. Its probably since 2016since this car has seen the sunlight.


https://flic.kr/p/2oyK7KJ

[Jamess113]

Pictures from yesterday outside.

[Pro Stock John]

Wow...