A little good news....

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I bought a 83 truck for my son. The guy that we got it from was making a race truck out of it. Luckily we got it before he started modifying the truck, but after he did the motor and tranny. Motor is a 355, 10.5-1 pistons, 268 cam, Edelbrock Torker II intake, Holley carb with some head work done. Tranny is built 350 with stall. MOTOR HAS NOT BEEN STARTED. No way was I going to leave this motor in for my not yet 16 son. SO, his grandma has given him a El Camino that has been sitting forever. It's a late 70 early 80 model. BUT, it has a 350 and stock tranny as well as all original brackets. So, the plan is to rebuild the Camino motor and tranny and drop it in his 83. The "race" motor will fit nicely in my 67 SWB. Cool. No money outlay for motor and tranny is always a good thing. PLUS, the guy "thru in" a bunch of NEW items: B&M truck mega shifter, Autometer Phantom oil, temp and volt gauges, Wilwood proportioning valve, Accel Dual point distributor and super coil AND a 16 gal fuel cell. The fuel cell will go under the bed of my 67. Plans are to sell the dual point since I have an extra HEI that I will put in, as well as selling the new Lakewood traction bars for a leaf spring GM truck. ALSO have 2 extra short bed drive shafts one of the is ALUMINUM and there is a yolk for a Turbo 400 in the bed as well....
Thanks for letting me ramble. Just getting a little excited that what started out as a 69 short step is now a 67 short fleet and I have a nice motor and trans for it. I can stick on a new master cylinder and be golden to at least move it under it's own power, after the motor swap anyway...