A quick Chevy Styleline Deluxe 1951 story.
In 1955 my father brought a Deluxe 1951 (with some work as the car got hit by a truck).My mother and him went for a romantic trip (6 000Kms) with it.
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It’s alive & vroooming
After 1 & 1/2 year in the workshop, Pinocchio went through :
- Complete body checkup (lots of welding and swearing)
- Complete mechanical check (But brakes)
- Electrical checkup ongoing
- Some paint here & there
- Main Shaft & starter motor change
- Roof overhaul (still to finish)
- And many other things… enjoy the pics
One donor, one !
Thanks to one of my best friend and after a 1 500KMs Week-end, I finally brought home a poor beast, heavily used, wrecked, and without any papers, but cheap and with some spares I needed. Really a pity to get our iltis reduced in such state.. to my dearest regret I waon’t save this one (engine won’t event start and got armoured electrical system, hence not fixable).
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Ooppsss… again ?
Hi lads & gents,
You won’t be suprised that I cracked my wallet open again for 2 extra iltises.
Pinocchio under rebuild / overhaul
Roughly 2 weeks ago, and thanks to my brother-in-law, I just picked this very nice Belgium Bombardier iltis diesel from 1988. After a nice 3 hours ride through the valleys and mountains (300 Km from home), on a saturday morning we discovered this nice noseless beast. Continuer la lecture de Pinocchio under rebuild / overhaul