Master_X
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Prom 1996:
The last time I drove this 1970 Dodge Coronet Super Bee was taking a girl to the Cornell high school prom. I came to the door in my tuxedo and the girls father came out and said "Thats a mighty nice car you got there, and you are looking sharp, you are going to make sure my daughter gets home safe tonight right." I just smiled and said, " of course I will." When the daughter got in the car she asked me where the screen was. I said "what screen?" She said "the screen for the beta max player you got there" I laughed and said thats not a beta max player thats an 8 track cassette. Its like a massive cassette. We went to dinner and had a fun night of dancing at the school. Most of us guys hid alongside the wall because we couldn't dance to save our lives but the ladies were good sports about our total lack of rhythm. Afterward we went back and picked up my 72 Chevelle. I had a quarter barrel of Leinies Light in the back on ice and we drove out to a bonfire on Moonridge Trail and sat with all the other high schoolers drinking beer, telling stories and listening to music from our car stereos. The next morning with a solid hangover and a few of my close friends I decided that now was a great time to disassemble the Super Bee and start restoring it. Unfortunately we wound up restoring dozens of other cars, trucks and tractors and The Bee sat in the corner and in 3 trailers of parts. Over the years I would periodically buy stuff for the car when I had money. Most of my life I was a single income guy so it was always difficult to find money but I wasn't afraid of hard labor so I would always take side hustle money and buy an interior, an exhaust, motor rebuild parts ect. After my stage 3 cancer diagnosis in 2023 I thought that I better start tying up some loose ends. I didn't want to leave a basket case mess for someone to clean up if I died. So my father and I started putting the car back together. Its a few months shy of 30 years ago when I took that car apart. Its all together now and Im a little too old to go to prom. But I'm not too old to to enjoy taking my lovely Mrs. Mayhem for a spin around the circle in it. Thank you to everyone who helped put this thing back together, my mom, brothers, wife, father in law, step son, friends and a special thanks to a few others like my dad who put a ton of extra time in to getting everything perfect and to my dear friend Paul at Hootie's Sales & Service for putting an amazing paint job on the car. I cant overstate the amazing job he did. If you need your classic painted, he's got my vote.
The last time I drove this 1970 Dodge Coronet Super Bee was taking a girl to the Cornell high school prom. I came to the door in my tuxedo and the girls father came out and said "Thats a mighty nice car you got there, and you are looking sharp, you are going to make sure my daughter gets home safe tonight right." I just smiled and said, " of course I will." When the daughter got in the car she asked me where the screen was. I said "what screen?" She said "the screen for the beta max player you got there" I laughed and said thats not a beta max player thats an 8 track cassette. Its like a massive cassette. We went to dinner and had a fun night of dancing at the school. Most of us guys hid alongside the wall because we couldn't dance to save our lives but the ladies were good sports about our total lack of rhythm. Afterward we went back and picked up my 72 Chevelle. I had a quarter barrel of Leinies Light in the back on ice and we drove out to a bonfire on Moonridge Trail and sat with all the other high schoolers drinking beer, telling stories and listening to music from our car stereos. The next morning with a solid hangover and a few of my close friends I decided that now was a great time to disassemble the Super Bee and start restoring it. Unfortunately we wound up restoring dozens of other cars, trucks and tractors and The Bee sat in the corner and in 3 trailers of parts. Over the years I would periodically buy stuff for the car when I had money. Most of my life I was a single income guy so it was always difficult to find money but I wasn't afraid of hard labor so I would always take side hustle money and buy an interior, an exhaust, motor rebuild parts ect. After my stage 3 cancer diagnosis in 2023 I thought that I better start tying up some loose ends. I didn't want to leave a basket case mess for someone to clean up if I died. So my father and I started putting the car back together. Its a few months shy of 30 years ago when I took that car apart. Its all together now and Im a little too old to go to prom. But I'm not too old to to enjoy taking my lovely Mrs. Mayhem for a spin around the circle in it. Thank you to everyone who helped put this thing back together, my mom, brothers, wife, father in law, step son, friends and a special thanks to a few others like my dad who put a ton of extra time in to getting everything perfect and to my dear friend Paul at Hootie's Sales & Service for putting an amazing paint job on the car. I cant overstate the amazing job he did. If you need your classic painted, he's got my vote.
