Mr B Body
Well-Known Member
Okay guys, I finally have my X where I can post some pictures of it. Here's the story.
This is my second car I had in high school (first car was a 1972 Dart with a 318) with 61,000 miles and a unknown, but supposed history as a race car (it did have over 10 coats of paint including primer), numbers matching drivetrain(440 auto). The car originally was white with red interior (St Louis car). When I bought the X (in 1987) she was mostly red with a little repaint white showing thru. Now you would think that a retlatively low milage car would not have any rust on it, but the rear wheel wells, most of the trunk extentions where gone and both front fenders had some spoty rust. I drove it for a few months before the distributor bushings went out and the end result was two cracked pistons causing low compression in those two cylinders. So with the engine out I decided (along with my Dad) that the old X needed some other work done. So while my parents were in Alaska during a vacation, I bought a beautiful fresh from CA 67 Belvedere and that winter cut it up to save the X. Both my Dad and my Brother helped take both the CA car and the X apart with the plan of putting the X back together the next winter. At this point the X was mostly in bare metal (doors, fenders hood and quarters chemically stripped, the rest of the car blasted in bare metal) Unfortunately there were other higher plans at work because later that next year Dad got sick so we did not work on the X, later we learned that Dad had lung cancer and he had 3 months to live. The X was put on the back burner to focus on Dad, but he only made it another 7 months (4 months longer than they thought, December of 1992) before he passed away. So a few months after Dad had passed I had finally graduated from college, started a new job and started building our new house (my future wife was the general contractor and I was the builder) just a few months before we were mairried (1993). It took another year before the house was finished (1994). Garage did not get built until 1996, but it was so late in the year that it did not get concrete until 1997. We (my wife and I) set about getting into our careers and trying for children (which did not happen), meanwhile the X just sat in my Mom's garage waiting. Fast forward to late 2008 when Mom is going to sell the house that I grew up in to move into a villa. So the X moves up to my garage, where it sits until 2010 when I finally start working on it again. But I'm all ready working on my wife's '71 Challenger rustbucket. So I work on the '71 for almost two years until she (my wife) is not working on her car very much (which was part of the deal. So I ask her what the plan is and she says that I should stop working on her car and just focus on the X. So I swapped the two cars (so the X is in the work shop) and now we are full bore on the X. Pictures will soon follow.
This is my second car I had in high school (first car was a 1972 Dart with a 318) with 61,000 miles and a unknown, but supposed history as a race car (it did have over 10 coats of paint including primer), numbers matching drivetrain(440 auto). The car originally was white with red interior (St Louis car). When I bought the X (in 1987) she was mostly red with a little repaint white showing thru. Now you would think that a retlatively low milage car would not have any rust on it, but the rear wheel wells, most of the trunk extentions where gone and both front fenders had some spoty rust. I drove it for a few months before the distributor bushings went out and the end result was two cracked pistons causing low compression in those two cylinders. So with the engine out I decided (along with my Dad) that the old X needed some other work done. So while my parents were in Alaska during a vacation, I bought a beautiful fresh from CA 67 Belvedere and that winter cut it up to save the X. Both my Dad and my Brother helped take both the CA car and the X apart with the plan of putting the X back together the next winter. At this point the X was mostly in bare metal (doors, fenders hood and quarters chemically stripped, the rest of the car blasted in bare metal) Unfortunately there were other higher plans at work because later that next year Dad got sick so we did not work on the X, later we learned that Dad had lung cancer and he had 3 months to live. The X was put on the back burner to focus on Dad, but he only made it another 7 months (4 months longer than they thought, December of 1992) before he passed away. So a few months after Dad had passed I had finally graduated from college, started a new job and started building our new house (my future wife was the general contractor and I was the builder) just a few months before we were mairried (1993). It took another year before the house was finished (1994). Garage did not get built until 1996, but it was so late in the year that it did not get concrete until 1997. We (my wife and I) set about getting into our careers and trying for children (which did not happen), meanwhile the X just sat in my Mom's garage waiting. Fast forward to late 2008 when Mom is going to sell the house that I grew up in to move into a villa. So the X moves up to my garage, where it sits until 2010 when I finally start working on it again. But I'm all ready working on my wife's '71 Challenger rustbucket. So I work on the '71 for almost two years until she (my wife) is not working on her car very much (which was part of the deal. So I ask her what the plan is and she says that I should stop working on her car and just focus on the X. So I swapped the two cars (so the X is in the work shop) and now we are full bore on the X. Pictures will soon follow.
