[Tygrr67]

and to think I thought "barn find" meant a car found in a barn... ;-) I guess I always have more to learn.

well.. the short story with the car is that the bigger gentleman pictured was the son-in-law of the previous owner, who passed on 4 months ago of Colon Cancer. The car had been in the garage for at least 15 years according to the son-in-law. Realistically 25-30 years according to his daughter. The car has 85,769 miles on the odometer. After some minor haggling on a price, we agreed to a date and pick up. I then became in possession of said beast.

My plans at this time are rather simple. After spending 2 days tinkering with it, My cousin ( the hippie looking guy) and I got the car running. Yes... running. I was actually kinda shocked the motor wasn't seized. Of course it took new plugs, wires, cap, rotor, etc etc and later a carb rebuild kit... but... it runs and even doesn't smoke...!! So, I am now in the market for some tires (redlines) for a set of Rally One's I have had sitting around for such a project. I also have a new top and will be installing that shortly. Finally, I have a few extra goodies that will be added to it: am/fm radio with reverb, put back the wood wheel, add rally gauges, and probably a console. The interior will be replaced and cleaned up where applicable. After that, I am going to run it up to a buddies body shop and we will cut and buff the old original lacquer as much as possible. Beyond that, I am going to drive the snot out of it.... and leave it alone as much as possible. I presently am trying to finish another car and this one will be slated after that one, maybe.. I do have a 72 trans am I need to finish as well.

speaking of which, anybody want those chrome slots, they say A f/x on the center cones...?

Lastly, the pictures of the son-in-law do not do him justice. I stand at 6'6" 230lbs, and he easily looked me in the eye (probably at 6'7") and had to be at least a nimble 650lbs. Yes, I said nimble.. he moved around quite easily and fairly agile for his size.