My First Build Thread, and a long time comin' Options

[skeates]

So...technically I started this restoration a month ago, but now it has a thread (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

A little history...This was my first car. I picked it up for $1200 back in high school and had it towed home with mice in the glove box and hoses going to no where in the engine compartment! My dad and I had it up and running off and on for three years before I shipped off to southern California for college. It has sat in the 'rents driveway for 5 years now (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) waiting for the restoration that it deserves

Well...now that I'm edumacated and have a "real" job (and also have moved back to Northern California) my pockets are slightly deeper than in high school and the build has commenced!



So far I have stripped it to a tub, built me a rotisserie and washed off about 30 years of road grime and PO molestation. Along the way I even made a new friend! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

[rick 918-S]

Glad to see in your absences you were able to get the chassis figured out. I like the Suby 6 engines.

[skeates]

Glad to see in your absences you were able to get the chassis figured out. I like the Suby 6 engines.

Yeah - I was really relieved to see that I hadn't royally hosed the chassis as much as it initially looked like. Now that I've got the car back on wheels and the doors on again I'm not too thrilled about the door gaps on the driver's side - but I can't remember how bad they were when I started the project (should have taken pictures). I figure though that's something that I can address when I do the final tear-down for bodywork.