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Kelle,

Your appearance on this site reminds me alot of the flap over at the Hotrodders.com

http://www.hotrodders.com/

where "powermelissa" has spammed numerous auto forums with stealth marketing campaigns.

v8 tvshow seems to be an entertaining site where restoration knowledge and product advertising are packaged together in an entertaining "watch this build" format.

Congrats to you and your husband for apparently being in the video/advertising business and helping companies sell more of their products.
I just think you should be upfront if this is your intention in coming to the Stovebolt site.

I don't buy your "I'm going to need a lot of help" line. Watching a few of the other videos on your site convinces me otherwise.

You have already told us "Stay tuned much more to come."
Much more advertising of restoration products, I bet.

Just my 2 cents.

Emerson was right on that point, Randy, but lighten up on the girl. We all have our own agenda, and if I didn't have my own way of restoring appearance (wire brush and rust paint) I might be interested in her sponsor.

Kelle, welcome. I think you will come to like that engine/trans combination, but you might as well start loking into a diff swap: Nova, Camaro, whatever. Lower numeric ratio is what it's all about when you think of keeping up with traffic, and you'd be losing the enclosed driveshaft at the same time. Don't know what's wrong with your tranny, but they are stone simple to rebuild. A rebuilt or reproduction carburetor, on the other hand, might be a good way to simplify your fuel issues.

dude?

if ya check out her and her old mans web site real good you'll see where some guy in their forum told her about the SBP

give the chick a break geesh ...I'd get rid of half the dudes in here just to have 5 more girls with her attitude hangin' around

and ya know guys as flattering as ya might think some of your macho comments are, they're not, in fact it gets pretty annoying...I know first hand because the women at the knitting forum I hang out at treat me the same way..."oh gas I want to marry you"..."oh gas I wanna have your babies"...roll eyes and fade to black...

Way to go GAS!!! Yeah, and some people on here say "who cares what somebody does to the truck, as long as it's saved by the crusher". Why not do the same here. If she is trying to market products, so be it. Just as long as the trucks bein' saved. Just don't watch the site or don't reply or something!

It was a joke, jerkoff :mad:

I don't know if she's selling products or not. And I guess it really doesn't matter. Anytime a gal knows how to do mechanical stuff.....I'm impressed!
Way to go, Kelle! And welcome to the 'Bolt!

Exactly, Rich. I don't even see any advertising in the videos, so how is she advertising?

Wow Randy. I understand your comments, but I should clarify that this project is a personal undertaking for me.. you'll notice that all the V8TV projects are American Musclecars, save for the '49 Chevy, and that's a privately owned project that I'm not promoting here.

I probably can get help from the guys in the shop, but they're up to their eyes building the Cutlass, GTO, and other car projects. I finally found a simple project of my own to play with, and this is the perfect forum to help me learn about it.

It's true I work on the muscle cars too, and I do know how to weld and do bodywork all that stuff, but to be honest, I don't know the first thing about a 3 on the tree transmission or drum brakes. That's why I came to this forum, to learn about the old stuff that's not very common.

I'm not here to promote anything, I'm just trying to get my truck put back together. If I mention a product that I'm using on the truck, it's because it works and I thought others might like to see it. I mentioned Rock Auto the other day, I have a $500 bill for all those parts... I have no need to promote them, they just happened to have what I needed and they ship fast.

I'm sorry that you're feeling "sold", but you have me misread here.

MOMMY!... Czechman called me a name!

Thanks for the welcome. I do plan to paint a shop logo on the door. It would be a logo of my family farm. Blandford Farms. I know a great painter and he said he could make it look washed out or old so I'm gonna get it road ready first, then see about him doing a few touches on the old paint.
I wish it would warm up here so I could get outside again and work on it. I'd love to give it a good bath and see how it really looks with all the dirt and (I think) moss off of it. Glad you enjoyed the blogs too.