Howdy from Missouri

[ky509]

Nice bee!!  I get up that way every once in a while.  My dad lives on Bull Shoals lake in Pontiac MO,  Well he is actually about a mile into Arkansas, but has a pontiac MO mailing adress.  You don't have any small block six pack set ups lying around taking up space and getting in your way, do ya   Allen

Thanks! It took me a long time to find that old Bee. I had looked for a good superbee to build  for years. Finding one that wasn`t a rust bucket  was some what of a challenge. All mine needed was the tail light panel and the lower parts of the rear quarters. Every thing else was very nice.

ON the 6 pack

I have a nearly new aluminum 6 pack intake for a 383 Low Block.

I do have one EXTRA set of Holley 2300 deuces left that will fit a mopar 6 pack intake manifold but they are expensive. They are an all original set of 435 hp 427 ci Corvette carbs. Chevrolet called um Tri Power, actually they`re the same carburetors as the mopars with slight differences. They are about 30 cfm smaller in flow than the mopar carbs but would work very well on the 383 or smaller engines. They can be made to work on a mopar. The last set that sold on eBay similar to mine with a similar date code, sold for $3500.00 just for the carburetors. Mine are dated coded Jan and Feb 1967. They are like owning gold my friend. I have one fellow in Texas that just offered $2,850.00 for them,lol. I still have um. They are so rare and valuable I don`t even keep them in my garage, I keep um hid some where else.  When I get more time around the holidays I`m going to list them on about 50 corvette web sites, some one will scarf um up. The last time I ran um was in the 1970`s so I know they will need some new gaskets, a pump and power valve as these probably dried out and cracked years ago.

But if your interested, I will sell um to ya. I`ll even bolt um on the 383 intake for you and if you want to foot the bill, I can go through um and make um like new. 

[41husk]

Thanks, I am looking for a small block set up for a spare 340 I have.  Did you find the Bee in Missouri?

[ky509]

Thanks, I am looking for a small block set up for a spare 340 I have.  Did you find the Bee in Missouri?

I don`t have any 340 stuff at all, sorry.

I found the Bee on eBay. It was located in S. Dakota. The fellow selling it listed it as one of the most rust free coronet bodies he had ever seen. You know I really trusted that,lmao. Any how, who ever the high bidder was had 3 days to get him paid, so now I was trusting the rust comment even less. So what I done was figured  the miles and route to the town the car was located in, went to the bank and drew out enough cash to cover my max bid. The bid closed at abt. 10 PM on a night during the week, and that was very unusual to me as most ppl want to end their bids on Sundays so that a lot of ppl have a chance to find and view their products during the weekend. So the seller really had me spooked. I waited till the bid had 15 seconds left before closing and submitted my high bid, and low and behold I was the winner. I sent him an immediate message asking for a physical address on him and the car, he quickly replied with the info. I had already found a stop 8 motel near the town where he was listed as being on eBay so I called and made reservations, the wife and I hooked the trailer to my old Dodge dually and we took off for S. Dakota early that very morning, like about 2AM. We arrived late that evening, I called him letting him know I was in town and he sounded shocked. Right away he started saying if you don`t want the car I already have it sold to a man in Texas. I said I havn`t seen it yet how would I know if I wanted it or not. He came back with something like " well I was just letting you know if you want to back out I don`t have a problem with it" By now this feller has me thinking that the car is a total piece of crap and I have wasted a lot of time and diesel for nothing. I told my wife that I had a real bad feeling about the deal. Any how the next morning we were able to go see it. I had a nice large flash light with me so I could inspect the bottom of the car and the frame rails. After I inspected it I couldn't`t believe my eyes, he had actually under sold the car. The car was in fantastic shape. It even had a rebuilt engine in it all the numbers matched except for the engine block, but the block was a date period correct 383 block, but not the original one for that car. After I got it home and took it apart I found that he didn't`t even know what he had in the engine. He had bought it in Texas off eBay a few years before he sold it to me. The car has been sitting for nearly 20 years garaged.during the last 3 owners. Anyhow back to the engine. The 383 was bored .030, has a .010 .010 crank, Trw 9,1 pistons, Lunatti cam kit. the heads have been completely redone. Some one has put a lot of $$$ in the engine. To bad I`m a 440 man,lol. Back to my story. I was satisfied with the car so we traded cash for title and loaded it onto my trailer. He says to me, " I was really hoping you would not go through with the deal", I said second thoughts, he said " no better offer" I say hows that, he says "the person you were bidding against on eBay called me and told me that if I would find a way not to sell the car to you, that they would give me a even thousand dollars more for it over what your high bid was" I said no kidding, he said " no kidding, they are serious" . I guess I had just barely beat them out on being the high bid, and they didn't`t have time to get another bid off before the auction ended. Any how, the car turned out to be a great builder, everything is numbers matching except for the engine, I`m tickled pink with the deal. And have a really nice souped up 383 high performance engine for sale. 

If I happen to come across some one with a small block 6 pk setup I`ll pass the info on to you.

Ed

[ky509]

Looks like some nice work there 

Looks like that rat rod hemi has a SUPERCHARGER on it??  Excellent.

Thanks!
He is chopping the top on it 3 inches and is almost done with that part. He just found and all original factory Dodge Brothers long bed for it with tail gate, and also found a set of Missouri licenses plates that are the exact same year as his truck. I`m starting to think that I just may have to have it when he gets it finished, lol.

Ed

[moparstuart]

great story about your bee , love to here stories with a good ending

[Charger_Fan]

great story about your bee , love to here stories with a good ending

Me too, I was worried there for a minute.