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wuunderstruck · 4 years

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EIGHT PEOPLE I’D LIKE TO GET TO KNOW BETTER.

𝟎𝟏 . ALIAS / NAME : : sky !!! its a nickname my grandma gave me that just kinda stuck

𝟎𝟐 . BIRTHDAY : : april 15th

𝟎𝟑 . ZODIAC SIGN : : aries .. my whole chart is aries its a bit much for someone as nonconfrontational as i am

𝟎𝟒 . HEIGHT : : 5′2″

𝟎𝟓 . HOBBIES : : writing, sims 4, reading, coding, playing irritating mobile games

𝟎𝟔 . FAVOURITE COLOUR : : purple, yellow, robin’s egg blue

𝟎𝟕 . FAVOURITE BOOK : : it used to be the great gatsby but idk anymore... i typically read a book and immediately forget about it but one book i read recently that i cant stop thinking abt is godshot by chelsea bieker

𝟎𝟖 . LAST SONG : : electric love by b*rns (i recently found out abt the problematic shit he’s done so i have to unstan)

𝟎𝟗 . LAST FILM / SHOW : : last film was the spy who dumped me, last show was the umbrella academy. the first one was eh, the second was v good as always <3

𝟏𝟎 . INSPIRATION : : anything from a song to a show i’ve watched!!! sometimes i’ll get inspo from a person i see in public or something that i see on a car ride. i get the inspo from the most random places sometimes.

𝟏𝟏 . STORY BEHIND URL : : its from enchanted by t*ylor swift... “i’m wonderstruck blushing all the way home.” i like the idea of being in awe and wonder of the world which is kind of how i go about life, so it stuck.

tagged by: @pcrtysovcr, @wildinvite, @wrciths, @gravedrt (THANK U ILY) tagging: @kcwi, @sinsoakedsaints, @trackmind, @hctknife, @almcstgolden, @mocnlighted, @unrottn, @infinitesiimals, @frgilebones, @wearyhands, @foolsongs, @greektragcdy @flowcrbomb @velvctelvis @maliblus @wldflwrz @icekisseds @rachellwrites @winebleeds @anatcmies @fvtvrehearts @forsunlights @feminince (nobody count i know its more than 8)

#𝖔𝖔𝖈 —— ⦗ i don’t have enough money for chicken nuggets. ⦘

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itsworn · 6 years

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LS-Powered Pro Touring 1966 Chevelle

As someone who sacrificed to do so, I always figured that keeping your first car is the ultimate measure of an enthusiast’s resolve. I mean, yeah, there are a handful of us who can brag of keeping their first car that they bought new. But I always felt like it couldn’t get much better than that.

Then I met Doug Vanderschuere. Whatever bragging rights I felt I had suddenly felt pretty weak; more than his first, this car has been in his family since new. And his parents didn’t just buy it new; they ordered it. But not even that compares to this next part: a month after they took delivery of it, they took delivery of their son, Doug. Yeah, this Doug. I mean, the thing could be a clapped-out Celebrity sedan and I’d still get warm and fuzzy about it just for that story. (I’m sentimental that way.)

As luck would have it, Mr. and Mrs. Vanderschuere bought the right car. And it was the perfect car for a newly minted gearhead in the early ’80s. “I drove friends around town and on road trips for years,” he recalls, relating a story about how he, one of those friends, and the friend’s father rebuilt the engine over the summer after high school. “I continued to drive it occasionally after I was married and even brought our first born home from the hospital with this Chevelle.” The arrival of a second kid kind of put the Malibu on the back burner, specifically his dad’s machine shed. “I knew someday I would restore it.”

But unlike most who aspire to restore, Doug actually followed through. “When we started the project the car had been covered in a shed for about 14 years,” he reveals. “We noticed the rust spots had gotten worse, the interior was ruined by rodents, and a few new dents and scrapes were on the body.” Rather than get it running again, Doug and his dad, Dick, began disassembling the car and labeling the pieces.

Doug had a good idea of how the car would go back together. “Over the years, I followed trends in car magazines and went to an occasional car show, but when I first saw Pro Touring cars I knew that was the direction I wanted to go,” he says. “The idea of re-engineering some of the systems while keeping the car clean, simple, and elegant captivated me.”

Naturally, the path wasn’t quite as straightforward as Doug anticipated. “The most challenging part of this project was adapting to the expanding scope and level of detail that we ended up with,” he admits. “I initially thought it would take three years to complete, but once I decided to do the LS swap and raise the level of finish I wanted, I had to reset the timeline several times.”

Doug relinquished the advanced tasks to the pros at A&M Deluxe Customs. “They were a very big part in bringing this car from concept to its final state,” he insists. The A&M crew did all the metal restoration; a lot of fabrication, including the dash, firewall, and air intake; and even much of the closeout work like plumbing, assembly, and fit-and-finish. So pleased is Doug that he said he’d change only one thing: he’d install electric cutouts in the exhaust system to make two modes, “one for nice enjoyable cruising and another loud enough for my father.”

It’s safe to say that Doug Vanderschuere has a lifetime of stories. Even the reconstruction part is woven into the family lore. “Over the six years of the re-engineering project, I truly enjoyed spending evenings and weekends with my father in his shop wrenching on it and just talking about things,” he says. Which really gets to the heart of what actually matters: the people. The cars merely bring us together.

And for a car to actually bring a family together, well that’s probably more romantic than any of that other stuff about owning a car for a long time. CHP

Tech Check

Owner: Doug and Jennifer Vanderschuere, Cornelius, Oregon

Vehicle: 1966 Chevelle Malibu

Engine

Type: Chevrolet Performance LS376/480

Displacement: 376 ci / 6.2 L

Camshaft: LS Hot Cam (PN 88958753)

Exhaust: Hedman Hedders 1 3/4-inch primaries, 3-inch stainless exhaust, MagnaFlow turbo muffler, 4-inch resonator by A&M Deluxe Customs (Cornelius, OR)

Ancillaries: Vintage Air Front Runner accessory drive, AFCO aluminum radiator and electric fans

Output (to the wheels): 435 hp at 6,300 rpm, 432 lb-ft torque at 4,500 rpm

Drivetrain

Transmission: TREMEC T-56 Magnum, Hurst Drivelines steel driveshaft

Rear Axle: Moser 12-bolt, limited-slip carrier, 3.73:1 gears, Dutchman 33-spline axleshafts

Chassis

Frame: Stock, ABC Performance boxing kit installed by owner

Front Suspension: Detroit Speed Inc. (DSE) control arms, spindles, coils, and splined antiroll bar; JRi coilovers

Steering: DSE fast-ratio power-assist box

Rear Suspension: DSE four-link and antiroll bar; JRi coilovers

Brakes: Wilwood 13-inch rotors, six-piston calipers, front; Wilwood 13-inch rotors, four-piston calipers, rear; Wilwood manual master cylinder

Wheels & Tires

Wheels: Billet Specialties Mag 18×8 (5-inch backspace) front, 18×10 (5.75-inch backspace) rear

Tires: Nitto NT555 245/40 front, 275/40 rear

Interior

Upholstery: Dark charcoal-gray leather and vinyl sewn with dark-blue thread

Seats: Reproduction Original Parts Group Incorporated Malibu bucket frames

Trimmer: Tony Miller, Stitches Custom Auto Upholstery (Poulsbo, WA)

Steering: Billet Specialties 15.5-inch Classic wheel, Flaming River column

Instrumentation: Dakota Digital VHX

Audio: RetroSound Model 2 head unit, Audison Bit Ten D processor, Hertz Hdp 5 950-watt five-channel amplifier, Hertz Mille 6.5-inch component set installed in former vent locations, Hertz subwoofer in trunk installed by Kingpin Car and Marine Audio (Wilsonville, OR)

Wiring: American Autowire installed by A&M Deluxe Customs (Cornelius, OR)

Details: Raised trans tunnel to accommodate the T-56 transmission

Exterior

Body Prep and Paint: Ben Conley of Ben’s Custom Painting (Oregon City, OR)

Paint: PPG DBU-series Danube Blue (13002)

Plating: Sherm’s Custom Plating (Sacramento, CA)

Glass: Kevin Batey of Auto Glass Past and Present (Vancouver, WA)

Details: Maliblu quarter-panel trim by Billet Badges Inc

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