Hey Don, When I was serving in the first gulf war I was collecting my regular USMC pay plus around an extra hundred bucks a month for getting shot at (imminent danger pay) lol!! Woo! Sweeeet! :grin:
Anyways, there wasn't anything to spend any money on and no place to do so for me in 1990-1991 so I saved a little stack of money. I mailed a list home to my step dad back home, It was a list of cars to look for. The list was made up of cars I was fond of, cars I'm still fond of today. There were B-body mopars on the list, there were 66-67 ford fairlanes, there were chevy and ford full sized from 64-66, chevelles from 66-67...
pretty good list.
I told him to go shopping for me and use his tire kicking experience to seek out a nice solid car for me from the list.
He ended up finding a 1966 Chevy Caprice 2 dr hard top with a little 327 and a powerglide.
We had one of those as well as many others on the list as family cars when I was younger, I told him to go for it.
He bought it in 91 and took it upon himself to start working on it, she was a good driver the way it was but he was bored so he pulled the engine & trans, rebuilt it all, had a couple rips in the seats fixed professionally, some minor body and paint work, new wheels and tires, dual exhaust... It was ready for me what I came back from overseas. It was sharp, a real nice car.
I got married when I got back, that was our wedding car. Since then we have had 3 kids, now ages 7 on up to 17. All 3 kids came home from the hospital at birth in that old chevy, for the youngest boy we had to dust off the old chevy and borrow a set of wheels with good tires from a friend’s 55 chev to get the job done.
Almost sold the car a couple of times, but we still have it.
It's in line for a restoration as soon as I am done with my 69 road runner.
I kind of understand the family car thing and the kids & wife becoming attached.
:grin:
Glad to hear you are keeping it.
