27 Feb 11 21:06, Mark Hofmann wrote to Roy Witt:   
      
      
      
    >> uncontrollability. Today it has power disc brakes up front, power rack   
    >> and pinion steering and the rear end sits where it did when it was   
    >> stock and sports new shocks too. I also added AC and a modern, yet   
    >> nearly the same looking as the original 56 radio so I can have some   
    >> tunes. Then a 350 engine with a 700R4 over-drive automatic.   
      
    MH> Did you do all the work yourself?  I wish I had the time and know-how   
    MH> to do restorations like that.  Just keeping the vehicles we have in   
    MH> good shape is enough for me right now.. :)   
      
   Yes I did. I was a tadge younger then, 65yo and just recently retired. So   
   I had plenty of time on my hands. When I was a Tool & Die Apprentice, I   
   worked part time in my dad's garage and learned quite a bit about cars. I   
   kept my hand in it over the years and only had to rely on garage mechanics   
   for a few jobs I didn't have the time or tools for.   
      
   If I can ever get a website going to show the photos, I made the 56 Chevy   
   steering column into a modern day column by machining some bushings and   
   shortening it so that I could use a jointed shaft to meet the R&P steering   
   connection. And unlike the original AC in these cars, I ran the compressor   
   lines thru the core support, rather than over the top.   
      
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