new guy missouri

[grunt2001]

Well id like to introduce myself, name's rob im from a little town in central missouri. I am very new to the vintage side of car's/truck's.I bought a 1950 fleetline 4 door with a 216 inline 6 im planning on building for greaserama next year.The body on the car is almost perfect, one dent on driver side fender and alot of SURFACE RUST!not a single rust hole anywhere all glass is good, cost me 400.00 and it has an open title[cl, i would really like some do's and dont's.I do plan on driving this car almost daily couple of question's where is a good place for white wall's that are not extremely high priced?should i drop a sbc in it?if so where can i buy mount's? i know this is alot of questions but i assure you i will take all comments to heart

 

[rainman]

Welcome to the site, check out the tech tips on here and you'll get some ideas. If you do try to grind some whitewalls be careful and don't go to deep.

 

[Bonehead]

Welcome to the site.

 

[grunt2001]

thank's gents im going to buy some bf's from jegs, , i never realized how cool and how much stuff could actually be done to these old rats

 

[ratdog]

Welcome to the site.Small block chevy is always a good choice,not different enough for some,but easy to find and most reasonable to get parts for.Lot of places have motormounts,but they are easy enough to fab if you have access to a welder.

 

[Tripper]

Welcome!!!

Rob,
Welcome to the forum... glad u found us! Make u're self @ home & feel free 2 join rat in!!!

BoB

 

[grunt2001]

thank's tripper i will sure do that ill have pic's of the 50 in a few day's

 

[the reverend muddy grimes]

if you must go sbc, you can get mounts for less that$100 on jc whitney.

 

[Rat]

welcome and sounds like a nice ride

 

[Sam_Fear]

Welcome to RRR!

Is there anything wrong with the 216?

 

[Gregster]

Welcome , glad your'e here !

 

[buckeyedon]

Welcome to RRR.

 

[grunt2001]

well the car has not been ran in year's and it's been sitting ,id like to do a rebuild on the 216 keep original as possible[

 

[moparcowboy]

Welcome enjoy the site lots of good stuff here!

 

[likes_2_tinker]

welcome to the RRR
just remember we like a lot of pictures

 

[grunt2001]

As soon as i get a day off i get my car to my garage and fill a couple of page's worth of picture's[

 

[moparcowboy]

As soon as i get a day off i get my car to my garage and fill a couple of page's worth of picture's[

Bring them on! we love pics.

 

[splitn2]

welcome fellow newbie!

 

[grunt2001]

thank you[ gentleman for such a warm welcome

 

[earthman]

For the price of rebuilding the 216 you could upgrade to a good used 235 and get a much stronger cruising motor. Dual exhaust and you have that classic chevy six sound. Welcome!

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