February 1, 2009.
This is what we started with.
Of course it looks great, that's what we thought too. I little sanding here, little welding there, and we were off to the races...literally. You can see the smile on my face as I'm looking at that big block 396 under the hood. I was already thinking about that first drive.
Nothing like big block power in a mid sized sports car.
The first order of business was the tear down to truly know what we had. You know, the stuff you just can't see when you don't know what you are looking for. All the parts were there we just needed to clean it up a little before we put it back together. Of course we had to clean out the floor to see how much would have to be cut out.
Huh, that was surprising.
So we just decided to jump right in and cut the rust out. At this point we thought this was our major rust area and we would replace the 4 floor pans and get to some body work. My dad is saying "no turning back now".
So at that point we decided to call it a weekend and pick it back up in a few weeks when I came back to town. Oh I couldn't wait to get back and get dirty.
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