Soooooooooo, it's been a long time since I visited here & for good reason---------my friend is finally ready to start on his '71 project.
He had me come over yesterday & what he described as an R/T was in fact a "500" model with a 383/TF, orange with a black vinyl top & interior with console. He had the buildsheet, original invoice from his Grandfather along with some maintenience records. Overall a nice, numbers matching survivor that had last seen the street somwhere around '92-94.
Grandpa, the original owner, was smart in that he had stashed a bunch of odd, easily broken NOS parts aside to replace as the car got older. The oddball option in this thing was a cassetteplayer/recorder mounted on the console that still ahd some sort of Mopar demo tape in it. The plan now is to basically change all fluids, clean out the gas tank, rebuild the carb & inspect & replace any stock components necessary to get it streetable again.
While it has the typical Mopar creaks & rattles is there anything you veterans of B-bodies can recommend we should pay particular attention to or be aware of?