a story about losing my first hot rod and finding it once again..happy ending include

Great story. Congratulations!

 

Wow, congrats to you. This HAMB is better reading than any book!

 

Congrats...have some fun! Wait your are!

 

What a great story, congrats!

 

Here she is arriving home and then tucked away from the same place she left decades before.
I don't know how the weekend went for you guys, but this was the best one I have had since I retired.

 

Congrats man, nice story and ending !

 

Great story and pics. There's something special about that rear view mirror view when towing home a new project. Can't stop looking back at it all the way home!

 

Great story man!
J

 

great story----glad u got your car back!

 

Great to hear the story.I love the car just as it is.I really like the wooden dash.I would just make it safe and drive it.I am building my car as an early seventies build.I think you will see a renewal of this era as most of us young old guys were just getting involed in this time period.No matter what you do the car looks great.

 

do you have any pictures of the car from back in 70s you could show us?

 

Very cool!! Thank God for the HAMB...I also found my old hot rod here.

 

hey, if you ever want to sell that ruff old ford, just kidding! dam nice car! glad you got it back! i kinda got my old car back from 1972, but thats another story.

 

don was you living in huntsville then? that looks like a car a guy named butch owned in h'ville then. congrats cant wait to see it

 

Don't let it fall asleep again.

 

Great story ,And THANKS I have been tossing around selling my duece for a few months,Now I know how much Ill miss it.[ who knows if I decide to sell it maybe I could buy it back when I retire HA HA Ha]

 

same kind of story - bought this 69 hemi Road Runner (a true "J" code hemi with no options) new in 69. Street raced for a summer then turned into a NHRA B/MP car - very competitive and close to record. Sold the car at end of 70 season (less driveline) and that gentleman kept it for 39 years until his unfortunate passing in 09. At a car cruise last Sept, and entirely by coincidence, my friend found out the car was still around (70 miles north of Pittsburgh where I live). That started a "quest" to locate (long story) and I wound up buying it back from his estate in Feb. of this year. We "renovated" the car mechanically and cosmetically (has original paint & only 7800 miles on odometer) and have shown at Mopar Nats and was a feature car at Chrysler's exhibit at the Woodward Dream Cruise. Car is a "time warp", pretty much untouched and still retains original and period perfect race car parts we installed back in 70 - even some original race lettering and 4" Keystone front wheels. Best of all, the same guys that I built it with back then, helped me again this time. My best friend said he'd kill me if I sold it - he's not doing this again in another 42 years! Look up article in Mopar Muscle, July 12 if interested. Will be feature car in edition going on news stand in late Nov. too. I love these stories (like the one above and the gentleman that owns the pizza company that tracked down his old Camaro from the early 70's) and can't believe I became one of them!

 

I had some color slides of it but I can't find them. I think they are too embarrassed to show up.

 

No, that car was Candy Apple red,absolutely beautiful car. Butch Winsett owned it. He was a really great painter I think for Rods Custom but I may be mistaken on where he worked. He stopped painting when his eyes got bad he told me. I haven't seen his car in many years and have lost touch with him.His car was much nicer than mine at the time.
Mine was painted a Champagne color body with Maroon fenders back then, typical of late 70s early eighty's styling. I didn't really drive it too long before I took it all back apart to improve all the mistakes I made the first time.

 

Way cool story! I think the dash is fine and considering the history it should stay. I haven't gotten rid of anything I regret, but I'd like to have my family's 57 Tbird and 59 El Camino that were sold.

 

yeah i knew butch pretty well,i think his car came to decatur,larry minor bought it i think. anyways congrats

 

Fan-fucking-tastic! Serendipity for sure. Absolutely beautiful story. And Don, as a guy who came of age in the'70s (graduated h.s. '71), I can vouch for how cool that dash would have been back in the day. Kudos brother.

 

Way to go!!

 

Good for you, Don. Have fun with it.

 

man great story. i have a very similar story about a 55 chevy 150 i'd sure like to get back. so, my advice this time would be DON'T take it apart! ha ha. congrats.

 

Wow. That's the best. Congrats.

 

Now that is just cool!!

 

Don,,have you gotten the key for the gas cap yet? HRP

 

Thats a great story. Thanks for sharing. I'd have one of those big shit eating grins on also if it were mine.

 

Original driveline make it back in?