Slicing and Dicing our Pontiac Ventura Sprint
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ก.พ. 2024
- cutting, grinding, and removing rusty metal from our forgotten 1972 pontiac ventura sprint project car revival. We start removing/repairing rust in an effort to get a new quarter panel, outer wheel house, and trunk extension installed on the Nova's red headed stepchild.
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Strange how bad that quarter was and how good the floors and rockers are. The 20 year hibernation was kind to this ol cruiser. Time to start hunting for a 454, I'm sure you will find one under someone's work bench, you have a talent for finding bargains. I enjoy your posts.
You guys need to get some scrap carpet to lay under the cars with. It is so much more comfortable & cleaner than laying on the concrete. I usually use a 4x6 section that I get for free from my buddy neighbor who is a carpet installer.
I know I know haha. My garage floor is probably doin a number on mikes back lol. The TH-cam channels health insurance isn’t very good so he can’t afford chiropractic care either. All jokes aside we have talked about the carpet idea or some rubber mats to make our lives a little better under there.
Awsome Ventura. Very nice find . Keep up the great work . Ill be watching this build for sure 😊.
Love this channel!!! And these cars! Thanks for the video Dan keep up the great work
Thanks rich! Glad you enjoy the videos and projects!
Nice too see ponch Pontiac, Hope you are put Pontiac power plant , It would nice to find a Rare 421 or 428 , even 455 , Makes car more valuable
Seeing the Ventura brought back memories. I had a red 74, straight 6 automatic transmission, no air-conditioning, I think it had power steering, and an am radio. Great car (for what it was) it had one quirk, if you hit a pothole, or a big bump, it would shift into neutral. Then you had to mess with the shifter on the column and it would go back in drive. Other than that, it was completely dependable.
At the time it was rust free. I doubt it still exists today.
I love the quirk lol! Who knows maybe it’s still out there. Who would have thought this rusty Ventura would be canned up in a storage unit for more than 20 years!
@hatchsrecreationalengineer1997 That car had my favorite interior out of all the cars I've owned. It had a cloth interior with the black and white houndstooth pattern.
The combination of the sparkling red paint after a wash and wax combined with that particular interior, boy, it was so pretty. 😍 ✨️
I like what you’re doing brother, your channel is definitely one of my favorites, you got the whole early Vice Grip Garage channel vibe going but with your style. Great work
Love it! I almost bought a 72 Ventura a few years back, but the roof was super soft under the vinyl top. It was a much bigger project than I wanted to take on. Looking back now, I should have picked it up! Looking forward to seeing this one come together.
A roof repair is no joke! So I can definitely see why you weren’t reluctant to walk away from it back then. Glad you like this project and can’t wait to get it back together!
Glad to see progress on the Ventura. I like to see not common cars being worked on !!
Thanks Joseph! Glad you enjoy the Ventura. I thought it was a neat car since I can only count on one hand the amount of times I’ve actually seen one in person
Awesome seeing another Ventura saved. Great progress, enjoying the build!👍
Thanks! Glad you enjoy the build. I’m sure besides you and I there isn’t a whole lot of Ventura content out there haha. Im actually really surprised how much people are into this car I wasn’t sure how people would respond to this project.
Great to see you do another build. Overall that car is fairly solid. It is cool that it is a standard. Those Saginaw 3 and 4 speeds are pretty decent transmissions and get a bad rap for being weak and shifting poorly. The biggest problem is the super crappy ITP shifters GM used with them to be on a budget. As you can see when you unbolted it the stupid shifters bolt to the body and or the crossmember and just don't shift worth a shit. First thing you need to do with any Saginaw is throw the stock shifter away and swap in a good Hurst. Then they will shift and hold up nice. Of course they will get damaged when you can only half way shift them with those stock shifters. They can take plenty of abuse with a descent shifter.
Love this build
Thanks Richard! Can’t wait to have this car sitting on the ground as a complete unit again!
I was an owner of 2 novas many years ago 69 small block Chevy. And nineteen seventy big block chev. What I would do with the pontiac ventura is Bring it back to stock three speed manual three fifty with a four barrel carb. Parts are money. Keep it stock as possible. Great video thanks.
Thanks for being consistent with the uploads! And for keeping them around the 20 to 30 minute mark. If you got kids, it’s hard to watch an hour long video on TH-cam without feeling like a deadbeat dad haha
Thanks man! Glad you enjoy the videos and video duration. I have strived to keep the videos to 20 minutes or less since we started because that’s all my personal attention span can hold on to when I watch something lol.
Looks great my guy✊🏼 just finished this on my 74 Nova recently!
Thanks man! Congrats on getting your 74 welded up.
I love these old Venturas.
I need a garage bad.
Yea I’ve always kinda liked the Venturas but never thought I’d own one. I gotta say though this car is seriously growing on me
Love the ventura and the vids
A stock Muncie 4 speed shifter bolts to the cross member just like that too.
I got a 72 Ventura myself along with 7 or 8 68-72 nova. I wouldnt mind having that 3spd and stuff! Especially the pedals etc
Man you have quite a fleet of 3rd gen nova stuff!!! I only have 3 novas and the Ventura lol. I can’t let the pedals or 3 speed stuff go we are probably going to be running that trans for a little bit.
Sweet car great factory colour..I think your hat needs a new brim..re re
Thanks glad you like the car! Yes my hat is definitely tired haha. It’s my work issued hat and I constantly have it on and off during the day switching between the hat and a hard hat so they always get tore up like that.
Looking good. Dan the Man
Thanks!
Nice!
Thanks Michael!
My first car in 1988 was a 72 Ventura I paid 200$ for-ran the wheels off that damn thing!You gonna get back on the desert nova or what?!?!
I’m hoping to get back in the desert nova soon!
For as rough as it looked at first glance, the damage was mostly topical.
It's uncanny how identical my 72 ventura is optioned.
What’s the fun of a car if you didn’t do anything to it. With that logic your going to have a lot of fun with that car
Shoes, drums have shoes, disc have pads. Sorry. Love the car, the Ventura is much cooler than the Nova
Hahaha you are right. I’m so accustomed to working on disc brakes that I regularly interchange the terms. Glad you like the Ventura it is a pretty cool ride.
Can you tell yet what are the major fifferences that won't allow Chevy equipment to bolt in? Is it just the front subframe or is every mounting hole on frame different along with wiring? All Ventura only?
Everything is identical on the chassis + wiring. This car was originally sold with a Chevy 307 from Pontiac so everything Chevy is a direct bolt on.
Typical Chevy sir that is Pontiac put some respect on that name.....lol.
Should put a pontiac 400 in her, thrr torque mobster motors & tht'll keep her pontiac'isher
“Pontiac’isher” lol. I’m not opposed to Pontiac power but definitely more expensive to go that route. I will leave the power plant up to you guys when we get there.
I that body was found in Minnesota it would be considered mint shape 😺
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A Pontiac 400 would be nice but a Pontiac 455 would be even nicer!😁 My vote is definitely Pontiac power for this car. But it's your car and your wallet so ultimately it's your choice.
Of course the 455s are harder to find so the aftermarket sells stroker cranks that fit in a 400 that can make it a 455 with a.030" overbore or you can get even more stroke to make something even bigger.🤔
When you go to source a Pontiac block(if you do), make sure you get I think '74 might of been the year they lightened the casting so the newer blocks can't handle as much power as the older ones so '73 or older?(I'm not exactly sure when they lightened the casting but I know they did sometime in the 70s, so you might want to look that up to know for sure so you don't pass on a good deal that might be what you're looking for?)😎👍
@@johnnelson5659 I consider this body in good shape for being down here haha. You are definitely right tho you guys are hard on your equipment lol.
@@itseithergonnaworkoritaint7852 I will definitely look into the details on that block casting. Thanks for the info! I’m not a big Pontiac guy so I really appreciate the input from some of you guys who know a little better.