Hi everybody, my name is Scott.
Thought I'd introduce myself and hopefully share my latest project, a 70 'cuda.
I've always had Chevys but have had an eye out for a 'cuda for quite some time. So I finally found one that I wanted last month on craigslist. Numbers matching 383, 727, 3.91 suregrip two tag car.
So kind of a cool story...
Says it's been sitting in a barn for 18 years, so I go look at it, guy shows me the original title, the warranty card, and the last registration from Dec 1979. The car is wearing the original WA plates with 1980 tabs. Oh yeah, forgot to say I was born, raised and still live in Olympia, WA.
So this guy bought the car from his mother-in-law in 1994 after she let it sit since 1980, he stuck it in his barn and never got around to it.
I'm a little fuzzy on the story but it sounds like with 78k on the odometer the car was stolen for just a hot minute until the wanna be racers put a pushrod through a rocker and bent several others.
Before making a hasty retreat they managed to steal the front wheels and the hood emblems.
Anyway I spent a couple hours with my buddy looking it over, I had to take the back seat out and unbolt the trunk latch (what a *****) because he had no key (later found in ash tray under butts). When I finally got in I found the collapsible spare with the original air can and an unopened quart of Pennzoil that had seeped out entirely and coated the trunk floor. I took one of the thin phone book magnets and could not find a place on the car that it would not stick, one thing the guy did do was paint the entire car in Rustoleum, that's always a bit scary.
Inside I was finding 13 cent stamps, Shaklee catalogs and Juicy fruit gum wrappers and funniest of all was a letter from an insurance salesman that ended with "may the force be with you"
So it's got your rally guages, six way seat, elastomeric bumper, rear window defogger, power discs, steering and some other stuff. Yellow with black vinyl top and hocky stripe.
My last build was full on pro touring but I can't see that for this car, it's got every part with the exception of the passenger seat latch button housing and possibly a valance insert, I'm not even sure it's suppose to have one is it?
Anyway I hope to start a resto thread soon so stay tuned!
