looks like you starting with a solid car there, what are you plans for it?
Well, I'm having the whole body stripped down to the bare metal to see exactly what we are working with. For all intents and purposes it does appear to be very solid with minimal rust, but we really won't know what we're dealing with until it's stripped down. The hood has already been stripped and turned out to be in really good shape, the trunk lid on the other hand is shot, so a new one of those is on the buy sheet. Somewhere in it's line of owners, they had tried fixing the trunk lid with fiber glass and bondo! It's all gummy and they did a horrible job on it. Also looks like a new trunk pan may be in order, but it's in fairly decent shape and may be salvageable.
So, bodywork and paint is on the top of the list right now. The person, who after a year of research, I chose to take on the project is really cool about letting myself and a gear head friend go out there anytime to take off parts, saving me $$$ in the long run. We are going to go out and take the front and rear end out, get it cleaned up and powder coated. Other then that, here's a few things that will be done:
-New Non AC dash pad (it was a factory AC car)
-New tilt column
-Installation of Hurst V-Matic 2 shifter on the floor (It's currently a 3 on the tree)
-Possible mini-tub depending on how big of tires we can get on the back using offset
-Roll cage with detachable posts (not sure the technical name for it, basically makes it so you can remove it if need be)
-Custom gauge cluster with custom gauges
That's about all I can think of for now! Thanks for the interest and insight. Take care!
James
