That_Tall_Dude
Well-Known Member
I have a long and complicated relationship with “the dodge”.
It was my great grandfathers car, his grandson (my uncle) inherited it the late 70s.
It was given to me for my 14th birthday in 1993 a couple years after a engine issue took it off the road.
After years of it garaged and me fantasizing, I was able overhaul the 2 barrel 383 in high school auto shop with some mild upgrades as my senior project. Had the trans and leaking calipers rebuilt, and was my daily driver it a couple years (97-99) and put about 30,000 miles on it.
Long story short; it was garaged from 1999-2008, started it every couple months and drove it around the neighborhood.
In 2008 the garage storage was lost, and moved it to a remote location in the serria foothills.
It was expected to only be there 6 months but a very difficult job, family health problems, friends dying, and a divorce later turned it into it sitting outside with car covers for 9 years.
Short term plan is just to get it running.
Some pics from September:
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It was my great grandfathers car, his grandson (my uncle) inherited it the late 70s.
It was given to me for my 14th birthday in 1993 a couple years after a engine issue took it off the road.
After years of it garaged and me fantasizing, I was able overhaul the 2 barrel 383 in high school auto shop with some mild upgrades as my senior project. Had the trans and leaking calipers rebuilt, and was my daily driver it a couple years (97-99) and put about 30,000 miles on it.
Long story short; it was garaged from 1999-2008, started it every couple months and drove it around the neighborhood.
In 2008 the garage storage was lost, and moved it to a remote location in the serria foothills.
It was expected to only be there 6 months but a very difficult job, family health problems, friends dying, and a divorce later turned it into it sitting outside with car covers for 9 years.
Short term plan is just to get it running.
Some pics from September:
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FROM LONG ISLAND, N.Y., GOOD LUCK, NICE DODGE !!
