Engine Rebuild Almost Completed

Took a trip to Mesa to see Joe Polkus and Max (his trusty dog). I had some miscellaneous parts that I needed to take to him to finish the engine rebuild. The engine is running! There will be a good amount of detail work to do on the engine--pretty dusty in these pictures but once we get it back to my garage I will go to work on in.







Next weekend we should be able to pick up the engine from Joe and continue to work on the car. Hoping to get the dash board out and the wires out the way so that I can go to work on the front end.

Here is a short video of the 308 running!

Engine is out!

On Sunday Lenny and I drove to Aurelio's house to pick up the engine hoist. Thank you Aurelio for letting me borrow the hoist. I will add a picture of the Hornet without the engine soon.

Side story: I met Aurelio last year at the car show and party that he hosted at his home. Great time as there were at 25 cars or so at the party at his house including Lenny's 1960 Oldsmobile Dynamic 88 that he had just finished. See picture below:





If you are wondering why there is a poster from the movie Kingpin, it is because this car can be seen in some of the opening shots of the movie. Lenny has put together a nice display that has some stills from the movie as well as some photos of the car on the set.