My 66 TrakPak car got a feature on YouTube..ton of fun.

 

Awesome car! Great video.

 

‘Thank you

 

Sweet!
I saw the 70 also…
love that you drive them😛

 

Nice video & a nice car.

 

Nice car and well done video!
I'm pretty sure the OAI you described was found with the car in Ohio that my Tri-carb set up came from. Do you have pics of it before restoration?

 

It is the same car.

 

yes, I will post some pics of before I restored it..same car, in the trunk in a field..

 

Was looking through some picture folders and found this I forgot having.

 

Before restoration pics of 66 shroud

 

Those carbs look like something I built.

 

 

‘that’s hilarious..lol

 

yea the shroud was pretty rough..looks great now

 

WOW! You had a lot to fix there.

 

Here they are now after you shined them up

 

chrome shop had to cut and patch holes and weak spots but the did a darn good job.

 

Very sharp, did you use fusicks bronze paint?

 

Yes, with ceramic satin clear high temp

 

‘Yea I had to get pretty creative, I fabricated both ends out of sheet metal, the center of the shroud where the end carb rests I was stumped on that for a bit. Mike Richards and I were talking about it and we both decided maybe if I could find a old air cleaner from the 60s for mini brand that maybe had that same curve and bend to it that I could cut it out and welded into the center carb resting area. so I was looking around and I ran across a VW bug air cleaner, and the curve in the bend was almost identical, so I bought that, I cut it out and grafted it on and of course I had to replace the whole centerpiece where the carb rests into and all that and luckily, I had extra one from an old Pontiactripower years back. it was quite an undertaking but I enjoy doing that kind of stuff. So instead of spending 8000 for a shroud, I spent a hell of a lot less just took me a week and a half half of work to do it maybe two weeks.

 

‘Looks super sharp..

 

That's a great way to lessen the gloss of the Fusick paint. The engines were not gloss from the factory.

 

Thanks for sharing. You have a nice car. I hope to join the 66 club some day.

Don W

 

A few pics as I worked my way through how I was going to do the repairs…a lot of hand manipulation of sheet metal.

 

after some bodywork and paint

 

 

It's great that you saved this piece from doom and I saved the carbs and intake also. It's a shame someone didn't save the car