Hello HAMB! My name is Ruthann. I bought a 4 door powder blue 6 cylinder 62 Nova when I was 16 years old. I did not have permission from my mom, but I went down to one of the car lots on the wrong side of town and bought the Nova from a shady little Mexican car lot. Drove it home and my mom flipped out. She took me back to the car lot and yelled at them for signing a contract with a 16 year old. They agreed to buy the car back, but I didn't want to give it up. The resolution is that they would fix all the lights, and that was that. So they threw a couple dozen butt connectors at it, and the lights worked for about a week. They're out of business now, by the way. I ended up eventually rebuilding the engine, and eventually getting it painted, and the original interior was pretty nice already. So my friends and I cruised that thing like crazy through the end of high school. At the end of high school, I enlisted in the national guard, where I was a light wheeled vehicle mechanic (diesel mechanic). I came home from boot camp to find a non-running Nova After getting it running again, I started to get a little bored with it. So I sold it to buy a 64 Bug. Then sold that to buy another VW, and after a half a dozen or so VWs, I got out of old cars for a little while. Up until recently. My husband and I just bought a 58 Chevy Biscayne 4 door, with a 283 and bellflower tips with no other mufflers. We have a 2 year old little girl, so we wanted a cool family cruiser to take her to car shows and cruise nights. It's a project, but I am pretty pumped about it. It was already lowered with chopped springs, and painted in oxide red primer, and the whole interior was missing. Here are a few pictures of it from when we first bought it: Abby loves it!! And as you can see, most of the interior is missing. The front seat is out of a 62 Chevy, and the rear is out of a 59. I would be stoked to find the correct pair of seats for it. I'm going to start a thread about it to show our progress with the project. And I am excited to hear any input you guys might have. It's great to have such a knowledgeable resource like this on the internet! Thank you guys!
Hello from Merced. Check out the Cental Valley HAMB page..... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/group.php?groupid=145 . Thats a good source of info for whats going on here in the Valley close to you. We have a show coming up on April 16th in Merced, Sonic is the first Friday of the month in Atwater, and we list BBQs and so on. Join up and post whats going on in Mo'. Again welcome and good luck on the Bellflower cruiser.
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