Round 2
These are NOT pics of my car. They're actually the last parts car that I bought. It was a 74 Rallye 360 4-speed, and to this day I feel pretty guilty over parting it.
What happened was this. The guy selling it was using it as a driver and a drag car on the weekends. He had wrecked it on the street, got t-boned. The passenger door was nothing but a mess, pushed it more than a foot. When I bought it he told me that the unibody had been bent so badly that the insurance company wouldn't pay to fix it (remember, this was about 85, so the car didn't have the value that it would now). I drove it back home, and it drove straight and ran like a bat, but I didn't put any more thought into the bent unibody idea.
So I stripped the hell out of it. What you see in these pics is me pulling the rallye cluster (I later decided to not use it and sold it to someone on the board a few months after I joined). I pulled off everything I could think f that I might need. The rallye wheels that were on my car later came from this one, and I kept all the interior panels; I still have some of them. The hood went on my car, and in pics I'll post later it's still blue.
One of the last things I worked on pulling was the dual exhaust with the stock chrome tips. While I was under the passenger side I looked at the floors...and everything seemed straight to me. The rocker was smashed in badly, but it seemed to have rolled around the joint with the floor. For about 15 minutes I thought about putting it all back together. It would still have needed the rocker and work or replacement of the passenger quarter. I decided that my car was more important than a parts car; I had only the vaguest idea of its relative rarity at the time.
