mattbrat004
I'm Awesome
First off, here is some backstory leading to how i came across this truck.
Ever since i was young, i've always had a fascination with old school muscle cars. Growing up around novas and Harley Davidsons, its no wonder where that love came from. Fast forward to high school.
Looking for my first car, i obviously wanted something old school. It wasnt long before i found a 1981 El Camino. Little did i know, it wasn't the muscle car i had wanted. This thing was a turd. Turning the gears in this machine was a tired 267 cubic inch small block.
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After a while, i had gotten into my first high school shop class. So obviously the first thing i did was convince my teacher at the time to let me engine swap this in the classroom! Going into the place of the 267 was a 307.
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Fast forward three months... Turns out i had bought a bad motor. I didn't have time to fix it. so i sold my el camino for dirt cheap, and was on the hunt for a new vehicle.
I had been working for a small towing business for a while, and we had a tow call for an abandoned vehicle. We towed the truck back to our impound lot, and called the owners. Turns out that the truck had died on the side of the interstate, traveling from Eunice Louisiana. They couldnt afford to fix it, and sold it to me, for two hundred dollars. And here starts my build.
This is the truck in the condition that it was sold to me. The reason it had died on the interstate was because a stuck injector, and a bad distributor. An injector set and distributor later, i had a running truck.
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