vjjack04

Saw this on Hemmings motor news today. Thought some of you may enjoy it. Looks like a head gasket problem...or new heads...one things is for sure there's a lot to point out.

kingwoodvette

He may have needed more than that one beer to get it running again 😜

60n1st

Pro tip. Lay your head gaskets on hot asphalt. Turn every 15 minutes. Eliminates any need for copper gasket spray.

csherman

heads have some BIG ports.....

91DRM

The original pilot for Roadkill?

LouieM

Noticed that too.

vettepoor

Reminds me of the painful days of my youth working in hot parking lots with no garage - burning knees, hands, etc on that asphalt changing brakes, fuel pumps and the like. I do not miss those times (other than I still had my youth, hair, hearing, eyesight...

Factoid

It’s taking him so long to finish, he drank so much beer that he outgrew his shirt.

DansYellow66

Sort of reminds me of my college days. I once laid in a street gutter in the rain in cold weather, under a 68 Javelin that was pulled up over the curb, to replace the starter solenoid for a room mate. Also did a cam change on my Plymouth Sport Fury in the dorm parking lot in a scene that was a bit tidier than that one in the picture.

rayvaflav

Is he holding a Ballantine ?

colo63sw

I once replaced the cam chain sprocket on old 72 in a parking lot, finished when it was pretty dark out.

Tonio

Here, hold my beer.....

ricks327

That's not a beer!! It's a can of STP.

Aerovette

I changed a transmission with a tarp draped over the front end of the car and a space heater underneath. Fun memory, bad event. had to have it done before work on Monday.

SDVette

Is that the steering box and column...???!!!
That, and the crooked grill make me this this is much more serious than a head gasket!

EDIT: Nevermind, it's a bottle jack and handle!

ricks327

Sloppy mechanic. GM boxes for the heads and it appears he was at a race track, given the number on the right side windshield.

AZDoug

I changed the transmission that way in my '61 in front of the frat house in Bozeman, MT, c.1977, except it was too cold to rain.

Doug

ricks327

Having visited my son in Dayton, Montana, I know why you now live in Arizona.

Frankie the Fink

I'm trying to figure out that hood treatment -- the blue portion appears to be a raised section with a portion extending rearward past the rest of the hood and that section covers the cowl vents it seems to me. Something I haven't seen before...

Just makes me wonder if the poor driver is sucking hot engine bay fumes straight down into the cockpit to bake his nether regions...

63 340HP

Somebody received some ported heads to improve times during the next day's qualifying rounds.

It looks like a typical site from the early 1970's on the peremeter of the pits after a Saturday test session. This is what we endured before easy-up's and motorhomes.