72 Road Runner Clone

[ChallengerGary]

  Give me a little time.  It's only 40 degrees here this morning.  It'll warm up by noon   

[Challenger6pak]

Send some cool weather this way.  It is already 75 degrees and it is only 9:30 in the morning!!! It's going to be a hot one today.  Looks like we are going to have 2 seasons this year; winter and summer.

[ChallengerGary]

Nothing new about that weather.  Spring and Autumn don't exist down there...

[backtobasics]

I wish!  The weather really has slowed me down - not quite used to this Winter stuff being from South Florida.  I guess I got spoiled being able to work in my old shop 365 days a year. 

Why not take some of the  from the sale of the car, and get the garage heated, so you can run this 365 again....?

[ChallengerGary]

I'd love to but unfortunately I am going to be selling my house (& shop) in order to downsize our budget.  Medical bills, stupid habits and just plain old biting off more than we can chew is kind of forcing us to reevaluate our "lifestyle."  The main reason I am going to be selling the car is to pay down some of our debt...

[NoMope Greg]

Still waiting for pics in the sun...

[ChallengerGary]

Still waiting for my Radiator...  I really don't fell like pushing it outside just for some pics.  Good News today, though - my headliner should arrive tomorrow and I am going to pick up the windshield tomorrow as well.  I should have it pretty much wrapped up by Sunday.  The only thing left after that is to get new exhaust put on it. 



And then 

[ChallengerGary]

Another STUPID delay - Bought a new windshield on Friday.  Planned to install the headliner + interior then pop in the windshield.  Welllllll, by the time I got home, the windshield had a big ole crack in it     

So still have not been able to push the car outside for some long over due pics, however I did finish the interior 

Still waiting on the radiator and the (second) new windshield is being delivered tomorrow (they felt sorry for me and are delivering it for no extra charge at least).  Tonight I am going to push her outside ,give her a bath and    even w/o the windshield. Then, it's clean the shop time...

[ChallengerGary]

Okay - Good News (for a change)  - they delivered  my windshield this afternoon    I went ahead and installed it, pushed her outside with the help of my 7 year old son, Sean and then we gave her a bath.  Gave it a quick dry and then... 

[DoNotChallengeHer]

Wow, that looks great.

[ChallengerGary]

More pics    Still a few more things to do on the interior plus have to get the new Radiator installed and the exhaust re-done.  Keep your fingers crossed, I hope to debut it (with the for sale sign in it  ) on Saturday at the Cowtown Mopar Club Annual Car Show & Corral

[ChallengerGary]

Wow, that looks great.

Thanks. There's a lot of work into her and after I pushed her back into the shop, I thought to myself how much it sucks that I cannot keep her for at least a little while.  Unfortunately, bills need to be paid and then it's on to the next one to help pay off more bills    

[DoNotChallengeHer]

I'll try to help by spending a few $. 

[ChallengerGary]

Thanks.  You know what they say, "Every little bit helps."   

All that I have to say is Credit Cards SUCK and I hope to never see another one again in my life (And I hope my wife feels the same way).  We recently started taking Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University classes at our Church and it has REALLY opened my eye to how wrong we've been doing it.  So much so that my "dream house" complete with my "dream shop" is now officially on the market. 

This car will be for sale by the weekend and then I am going to start on my 70 R/T Challenger to further pay off everything.  Hopefully, our house will sell fairly quickly and that will give us a ton of breathing room. The best part is our house just hit the MLS today and already we had some one want to see it tonight.  Hopefully, we've priced it right and it will sell soon.  I've already found a shop I can rent (although I hate that word too)  that will still save us over a grand a month versus this house payment & utilities because believe it or not there are still houses in this area that are VERY affordable.  Basically you can get a decent 3 or 4 bedroom house for about 1/3 of what it cost for a similar house in South Florida (where we moved from).

Oh wel, sorry for the RANT but I guess it is my thread so I am allowed   

[hemiken]

   Pictures of the road chicken look great.  Awesome color for that model.

Good luck with the sale of the house and finding a new place for yourselves, hope i can lace an order to help out soon aswell