Discussion Forum - Northstar Chevelle Club

...for next year only.  A little background.  An old car fanatic buddy of mine in Duluth used to run this annual event called The Cruise For Cancer.  It's along story how all this came about but the gist of it was for a small entry fee, you would get a T-shirt, sticker, and then cruise around Duluth for the day and raise hell.  All the collected monies from the car folk and businesses that sponsored the event went to a juvenile cancer patient in Duluth.  It got to be to big and too much stress for he and his family to handle so the last one was in 2003.  After a 10 year hiatus and a heavy guilt trip laid on him by his oldest daughter, he revived it this past September and intends to continue next year.  Judy and I went with the Viper.  It's a great time and I highly encourage you to go up and participate.   Anyways, this event always brings out the old car nuts in the area and this year was no different although there are not as many as there used to be.  By the end of the day, I was really regretting not taking the El Camino instead.  Several people asked me about it.  It was originally owned by a, let's say, colorful business man up there and the car was well known. 

Anyways, my old friend John Peterson was on the cruise.  I haven't seen him in 10 years.  He is the guy I credit for planting the hot rod bug in me after one hair raising ride in his '68 Chevelle back in the summer of '81.  At one point he asked me if I ever considered turning it back into what it was in the early 70's.  I told him I was not at all interested in doing something like that.  Well, fast forward to now and I'm actually considering it.  What put this all into motion was a guy contacting me through Cardomain.com, where I have my build of the El Camino and it's history chronicled, asking me if I wanted to sell some of the performance parts on the car.  He was mainly interested in the front suspension components.  I have been wanting to make a change anyway so I sold him everything except the brakes. 

The days of corner carving with this thing are over so I've been tossing around different ideas on what to do with the car.  I haven't made up my mind but I was thinking in the interim, I would do a throwback/tribute/retro type theme with the car for next year only.  I would make it look like it did in the early 70's when the original owner was bracket racing it.  Call it a 40 year tribute.  It will be fairly easy to do.  The hardest part will probably be replicating Schmuck's Truck graphics in vinyl.  I think it would be kind of fun.  The trend these days is to modernize old muscle cars.  I'm going to do just the opposite.   I'll take it to Car Craft, Hastings, the Cruise For Cancer in Duluth, and even a drag strip or two. 

Here's what it would look like.  I'll even stick the lower side moldings back on. 

Tell me what you think.  Dorkey idea or should I do it?