Last Indian

With Indian nearly finish; well at least for this year, here’s a walk around! https://1drv.ms/v/s!ApYhZl8sk2DFxnPBFtiYyskJKHth2000 & Engine bay! https://1drv.ms/v/s!ApYhZl8sk2DFxnL-3IIP3X0SDJJZ

Maybe this will work better for you Kiwi! But I’m not sure! https://1drv.ms/v/s!ApYhZl8sk2DFxnPBFtiYyskJKHth Wrong link, try this one. The one above is a walk around. The bottom one is the interior. https://1drv.ms/v/s!ApYhZl8sk2DFxnHXM2ZbDhgvM7dq This one is the engine bay. If they work!🤪 https://1drv.ms/v/s!ApYhZl8sk2DFxnL-3IIP3X0SDJJZ

Up it’s my black Buick LaCrosse! It’s backed in facing the Indian!

More play time today! Wow two times in one week! Oh wait! Today’s a new week! Dah! The Indians Interior video. IMG_1399.MOV

F.1 GTX Grand Prix walk around (The Last Indian) this one might work better? https://1drv.ms/v/s!ApYhZl8sk2DFxnPBFtiYyskJKHth2000 IMG_1398.MOV

Well today was a play day, for once! While I was detailing out some of the work I’ve been doing I took some video of the engine bay to see how it might look when videoed. See what you think. FullSizeRender.mov

Plenum cover/cooler is done. The real purpose of this upgrade was two fold. One I wanted to take more advantage of the F.1 hood for cold air induction on the plenum now that the new ram air NACA duct was added to the front cover. This cover sits as high as is possible, without hitting the hood when closed, to get it in to the air stream of the F.1 hood scoops. This air is now diverted into the open area of the cover. Than flows over the plenum and is extracted out through the top and back of the plenum cover/cooler. This reduces plenum air temp more than before creating a denser charge! The other was too have deeper finned top, a little more bold! So to speak.

Frosty, you known I feel for you! Two major knee surgeries just to put my knee back together from football; wow! And the other needed surgery, but I never did get it. But, I did find quite awhile ago that at least for me, what keeps my knees good! I mean good, bend, squat, kneel for extended periods of time was this! Every morning I kneel like the Land O Lakes Indian maiden for a full minute! Basically I sit right done on my heels. That said I did have to work up to it slowly! In the beginning I thought my knees were going to come apart like a chicken leg. But be carful if you try it your issue might be completely different from mine!

Got the foot rest pad in. Now I can rest my foot when Smokey’s not chasing me like Kiwi!!

Good deal mate! The ticket? Hey that’s just keeping Smoky on his toes & and helping out the local economy! Not getting all that tax revenue because of COVID-19 you know!

Welcome! Always liked the big GP’s of the 70’s!

Ahh! Omaha! Been there done that! Uncle Warren lives there! You know Buffett! Spent lots of time there, Council Bluffs Iowa and Lincoln Nebraska between “96” and 2003 on the railroad project for oil drain extensions that our team developed. Union Pacific Railroad’s headquarters is in Omaha. Talk about wide open spaces! Side-note did you all know that Abraham Lincoln founded Union Pacific Railroad?

Well this is the first look at the Indian with the new front cover/splitter/emblem! Not finished quite yet, but getting close. A couple more weeks. Really weird to have it on the ground after 10+ months in the air! It’s usually on the ground by late May! Took it out around the block to see what the new NACA duct setup and tranny cooler we’re like! It was well worth the work, that’s all I can say! Been a strange year! Still have the inserts for the front cover to finish, as well as the plenum cover and still need to install the interior racing foot pad!

Boy does that look familiar! Looks a lot like my 69Z did after a dash fire! Wow what a mess! Especially after it’s been dry chemical sprayed to extinguish it and then an added dash of monoammonium phosphate, just to make sure all A type combustibles are out too! Yuck! Kudos Frosty ! That’s a lot of work and in very uncomfortable positions lots of times!

Well, that becomes a little difficult as basically on the old cars you can lay on your back reach up and pop the hood! No latch lever required! That said there are a couple things you can do! First take the coil wire going to the distributor run it into the cabin of the car. Take it to like the glove box! When I did mine on my Camaros I actually built a hidden compartment that you accessed through the glove box. I ran the wire to a toggle switch in the hidden compartment. The other side of the switch I ran back to the distributor. With the switch off even if they try to hot wire it won’t work. The other, but I don’t know if your Grand Prix has a nutral safety switch? But if it does you break one side of the switch and run it to a momentary switch! Without the momentary engaged while starting the car, it won’t start.

Hang in there buddy! You’ll get it figured out! I know it can be exasperating!

Not a thing wrong with that mate! All of them are one in a million if you love them! I was JustA saying I can’t complain and I’m lucky for that! She’s kind of use to it because of her dad! He was a famous WWII pilot and post war, race pilot! So she use to get dragged around to racing events and fly-ins and such. So the only think is she really has no desire for car shows or such, but that’s ok as I was never big on car shows either.

Ok, I have seen everything you guys are saying with the guys I know! And I’ve said this before! Man I am one lucky bastard! 48 years of marriage and I can honestly say she has never done any of that! Me on the other hand, not so much so! She hates, I mean hates clutter and dirt! She saves very little that’s not going to be used. She makes a home that anyone could walk into anytime and never find it but perfect, not bragging, this is her not me! True story! 20 years ago she see’s an add for one room free carpet cleaning. She tells me about it and I say if you want to call them go head. The day they are supposed to come at 1:00, I come home from work at 4:00. I pull in the drive there’s a car, not a van, in the driveway! This can’t be good! I walk in, it’s two guys from Kirby vacuum! They’re trying to sell my wife a Kirby, and of course it can shampoo carpet! Now I’m sorry but you can’t sell my wife anything, she is the ultimate skeptic! She is as sweet as they come, but anything but gullible! They’ve been there an hour, obviously late! Now they’re going to demonstrate how dirty the carpet is! This was hilarious! Where the bag would go he puts a white filter cloth and starts to vacuum! He stops takes the filter cloth off! No change, no dirty, no nothing! Now he goes to the couch, same thing! He turns to me and says, you are a very lucky man! At which I said, I know! So when she complains to me from time to time, but honestly not very often, I just think, I’m a lucky man! And try to be a little less me the car guy!

Copy that buddy no room at the inn! Still I’m pretty happy with pipe stand set up! Gives me 20 inches of clearance under the car which has always been enough get done what I need! And it’s carpeted where the Indian sits and petty well climate controlled year around!

No point Frosty! JustA watching your 6 buddy! I don’t want to see you in a nice heated garage and melt!😁!

Yup! There’s some good shit out there; read that as bad for you! Only been in a hospital 3 times once for a month for pneumonia at 3, almost died, knee surgery at 17 and the car accident in the Z/28 at 26. Always been lucky or healthy depending on your viewpoint, since then!

Wouldn’t that be Ice Palace!?

Tell me about it! When they put my knee back, literally, together from my football injury, there were some drugs! I was in so much pain after 6 hours of surgery, they would come in every 4 hours with morphine and it would be off to la la land!

Drugs! Who knew! Really glad you’re home safe n sound! The rest will come given some time!