Well I took the 63 up and around the block today after cleaning it out yesterday so I wouldn’t leave half the stuff in the back of it on the road.
I was pretty happy about running it around the block, all the gears worked good, though I kept forgetting that 1st gear wasn’t synchronized on this transmission. Now for all those little things that are going to need fixing for it to be more fit for the road:
Gauges are dropping voltage when the lights or other load is on causing erratic numbers on the temperature and the voltage.
Radio doesn’t work, definitely need something to take care of the droning sound of the engine and road noise while driving.
Need new windshield wipers and a switch to allow both low and high settings(don’t wanna forget and scratch the window)
Shifter boot would be a good thing for driving in the rain so it doesn’t come up through the gaping hole in the floor around the shifter.
Put all the new suspension and steering parts underneath to take some of the guess work out of driving the truck.
Driving lights would be a good thing for driving at night because the stock lights don’t do much to keep the dark at bay.
Then it’s down the to cosmetic stuff to make it look a bit better.
Guess I should see if I can wrangle up some more overtime to pay for all this stuff 
Here is my 1987 Kawasaki zx750r that I bought a few years ago for about 400 bucks:
As you can see it’s not the newest in terms of styling, but it rides down the road pretty good for a bike that is old enough to drink alcoholic beverages.
Last year I had a short riding season with a badly rusted tank, but this year I bought a replacement tank after having a sealer not work on the original gas tank. I’ve put about 750 miles on it this year and am hoping to get a few more in before the weather gets too cold.
So as I mentioned in my last post I have a 63 chevy that I’ve had for several years and drove it for about 4 years before having it set for about 10 years because of transmission and other issues.
Here is a picture of my 1963 Chevrolet C10 Swb Fleetside:
It doesn’t actually look this good right now, that was just after I finished a quick rattle can spray job to see if I liked the black with white top and accents. It’s already starting to peel from the weathering from the winter.
I’ve recently put a 3 speed stick into it after a lot of bad luck with automatic transmissions(a th350, th400, and th700r4). I haven’t driven it much since the install because since it has sat around the carb needed cleaning and the suspension needs work.
I bought myself a bunch of goodies with my year end bonus check that need to get installed and hopefully I’ll get a chance to use one of the many digital cameras in my house to show the progress here.
For some reason my blog decided to not work anymore and I just talked the wife into installing a new version. I’m hoping this one doesn’t disappear on me because hopefully I’ll be updating work that I’m hoping to do with my 63 chevy and my 87 ZX750.
Anyways, Hope this one holds up better than the last one
