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Originally Posted by azoomm
Well done. Looks tremendous. Love that old skool shit...
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Thanks.
I feel like a fucking movie star in this thing, and it cost me about as much as a modern econoshitbox. Will I pay the penalty in gas? Sure. Does your right pantleg get wet in the rain? Damn skippy. Can you carry anything in it? Not a fucking chance...it has no trunk, no glovebox. That all goes without saying...but I don't fucking go anywhere, and this thing really should be driven on nice days. This is my moment of zen car. Fits me like an old pair of shoes. Uncanny.
I've been drawing pictures of this car since I was a kid. I had the Mako Shark II Corgi with the flip open clamshell headlights, and the HotWheels of it. This was the show car that made me drool as a kid. This is my dream car. I can't wait until she actually runs as good as she looks.
I had to source a trick offset aircleaner to make my carb swap work under the flat hood, and still clear the new HEI distributor I got...but once that comes in, she gets all the mechanical updates in order to make her run right, and pass inspection. All the stock parts go on the shelf.
Some might argue it's almost criminal to take an NCRS quality survivor car, and use it as a driver. Others might argue just looking at a fucking car, and keeping it like a bug in a jar is real nice and all, but cars need to be driven in order to really stay fresh. This car is already showing some signs of having been perhaps stared at too long, and not really driven enough.
Rather than affect the value, I feel that if I change things to make it a competent driver, but I just save all the original parts, I'm both keeping the car in use, and yet preserving the originality in case the next owner gives a shit about that kinda thing.
Me, I just wanna drive my dream car.
As for any future mods, I'm fighting the urge to put headers on it...and the fucking cost is actually making that quite a bit easier...and it would really benefit from some modern stoppers. They make shit that fits inside the stock wheels, but still brings things up to a modern performance level.
I'd probably stop there on this one, though. I do like the fact that it's pretty much unmolested...simple, elegant.