A lot of people have e-mailed me wanting to see a picture of me. WELL, here it is.

This is a typical day of how I look working on my 69, prior to my haircut and a long awaited shower, and then to get something to eat.

PLEASE, excuse the MESS! I am working on it!!!

June 6, 1999

I spent much of the day sandblasting the tranny, bell housing, intake manifold, and some other misc. parts. Took off the harmonic balancer, water pump, valley pan, timing chain cover, and fuel pump. That motor still looks like it never stopped running. The entire timing chain still had oil on it. The same for the heads and lifters. I noticed the balancer has a slight groove where the oil seal goes and it was spinning out some oil, so I'm going to get that machined smooth.

June 12, 1999

Today was a pretty good day. I managed to clean off all the gasket material from the motor. Flushed out the motor with kerosene and cleaned the oil pan.

June 19, 1999

Spent today cleaning, prepping, and then painted the oil pan, intake manifold, valley pan, timing chain cover and oil filter housing. Cleaned up the motor some more and installed the oil pan and the valley pan.

June 20, 1999

Today I cleaned all the motor bolts. Installed the intake manifold, timing chain cover, water pump, oil filter housing, and the fuel pump. Washed down the entire motor and painted it Pontiac Metallic Blue.

Called it a day and spent the remainder of Fathers Day with my 5 year old twin boys washing 4 pair of my greased up pants and 5 T-shirts in a big galvanized pan. My kids really had a blast. Meanwhile, my wife was cooking up a great Fathers Day Dinner and then we had a Fathers Day Chocolate cake.

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