This seems like the cool place to be!

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Welcome to the site, great project! As others have said, don't drive it in the winter, what would the point of that be? Also don't listen the "other guys" at those "other websites". They would just have you put a piss ant 383 stroker in there and then you would have what everybody has; a piss slow cookie-cutter so called hot rod.

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What trans are you using? D50 truck or an auto?

Actually I am using a conquest trans. It a wide block out of a D50 that I am swapping a 1g head on to.

But seriously, a classic shouldn't be driven year round. Buy a Geo for winter.

But the whole point is to be different, and driving a car like that all year round isn't something people do. Its not like I am going to letting rust away or anything, everything that can be powder coated will be by primo performance so I will stay nice as long as you wash it every once an a while. My dad drove his 1948 GMC to work 60 miles a day year round for 20 some years and is just now redoing some body work. It will be driven all year though, sorry! All though I do have to build it first.