Do you have more pictures of that Demon??

That IS that Demon


It's had a lot of work done to it since that trip. The original numbers matching 340 4 speed drivetrain is under the bench for safe keeping and it now has a 525hp 416 stroker 340 in it, new wire harness, restored dash assembly, new Dr. Diff 4.10 center section, rebuilt suspension, new bumpers, tires, brakes, etc. It runs VERY strong on the street and is a hoot to tear around in!

The "Heater" was all of the clothing from my bag around our feet...at zero degrees, no heater, and a wind chill because the dash vents were frozen wide open....the clothes didn't help much!

Somewhere near Crecent Oregon at 1am......Had to stop for the night because the windshield kept freezing over. Oh yea, no wipers either!

I've been to a lot of cold places in my life but nothing compared to the long term freeze I endured on that trip....BRRRRR!

Funny thing is that I live on a busy street, I was just waiting for some enviro Nazi to stop by and read me the riot act (no worries, I'm well armed! ). It really doesn't make that big a mess, the undercoating disentigrates and looks like muddy water, it sits right under the car and scoops right up, and lucky for me I just happen to have a steam cleaner to clean off any remaining small stuff in the driveway, looks as good as new and nothing went into the gutter, my lawn boarder soaked it right up.

Scott: Who owns the Demon that you had that adventure in????
Yours???

Wilson
Ontario
Canada

Interior of my Demon....
Column Shift, granny style.....need to replace front seat covers next.

No, my buddy Stew Smith in Kelowna B.C. owns that one(that's him wearing the Tuque Eh!). We hang out a lot so I get to drive it and wrench on it.

Ah.....a fellow Canadian......eh?

very cool

Ok, so here's the latest, I was basically done with the undercoating project and ready to hand it over to the body guy, but, I still had a few gallons of diesel left in the hotsy and decided to see how much of the Earl Shieb $99.00 white paint job I could hose off....As it turns out the answer was....nearly all of it! Turns out that it had been painted black long ago, thankfully only the outer body was done, that paint had been partially removed by a previous owner before the cheap white paint went on, the rest of the yellow you see is the original paint and THAT is a good thing! I can still make out all of the original details, the lower body paint blackout, the side stripe and tail panel locations, etc. so I can dimension and photograph all of them to get them back on exactly right.

It's now cleaned as far as I can take it short of media blasting. Now the few sins of it's past can be clearly seen but it's a short list and all together she's still as solid as a rock for a baseline restoration project. So, if you ever wondered how much work you can take on and make a short job of it with a steam cleaner check out the following pics!

Here's what I discovered:

The hood and passenger fender, and latch tray support brace are used replacements, not a problem as I have NOS examples of each so those will go on.

It has the typical A-body curse (door jamb striker latch pegs are cracked around the posts) It has a few light older body repairs, deck lid, tail panel, leading edge of the roof, rear end of the drivers quarter, passenger door, a big shallow dent in the passenger quarter, and a few other minor scuffs. None are serious enough to demand a new panel.

The only rust is the already mentioned drivers footwell spot and some small holes at the very bottom of the quarter panel, couple small butt welded in patches and good to go.

So far so good!

The Hotsy blasted the paint right off, fast enough to do a name writing demo

All clean now

Another

Here's a before I touched it shot

Same area after steam cleaning. Nothing you see is dirt, grease, or undercoating, just nice clean bare metal, primer, or paint. It passes the white glove test!

Those snowy pics remind me of when I moved to calgary AB when I was 21 and my only vehicle was a 70 swinger 340-4spd-3:91 car. winter driving was horrific! I could barely get it moving from a stop light and once I was moving it was all over the road,ah the good 'ole days of being young and broke.

Good looking Swinger! Same exact combo as the Demon we drove up. That was one hairy ride let me tell you! Imagine a few hundred miles of two lane highway FROZEN solid over with white packed snow ice on old rock hard tires facing a multitude of logging trucks and other fast moving (modern cars with snow tires) traffic. It was like hearding cats keeping that thing in one lane!