Got an all original '63 Dodge Custom 880 2dr, controversial maybe, rare for sure. I like Green cars (thats the paint not the fuel consumption)
Hey Delinquent, welcome from me & the Roaches in Es***/East London. Maybe see you out & about one day!
Okay, so it's taken me a year to get back on, but I got another car accidentally the week after I registered, 1972 Ford Torino Wagon with genuine 27k. So my year has been full. Here's the 880 wearing '58 plymouth caps, the front end shot has been retouched a little, nosed with clear marker lenses, this will be done for real (looks cleaner than stock). I currently have it with original caps, which are not to my taste, but today received a set of '61 Dodge spinners that will go on with a lowering. I have the car at my trimmer's having the seats and carpets done in original fabric (SMS Auto Fabrics) keeping door-cards as want to keep patina where I can. A previous owner had recovered in bad vinyl. . . I could go on.
Found this Torino (base "Torino" not "Gran Torino") on the street just off the New Kings Road. Been over here since '73, genuine 27k, incredible condition though needed some loving. Still had original Uni Royal Bias tyre, so whipped off the radials pronto and put the bias www's on, didn't fit with the no frills car (only options 302V8/ auto) so reversed them on satin black rims. This is a little later than most cars for this place, but '72 is my cut-off and the spirit is there. Dodge = Summer / Wagon = Winter. p.s. they called these wagon's "pillared hardtops" as they have frameless doors.
So am I! Should be simple enough, wind down torsion bars down and block the back. Think it needs the rims in green too. I live in central London, surrounded by road-hump so have been putting it off.
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