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There's barns in NYC ??
Old member finally coming out... story of my true barn find.
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Welcome to the site,my fellow V code brother!
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Holy barn find Batman!
I was sure Pete owned all of them
I was sure Pete owned all of them
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Welcome from the central coast of Cal.
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Welcome from Washington State.
There are still a couple I haven't found yet, but I'm on the prowl!Holy barn find Batman!
I was sure Pete owned all of them
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Thanks all!
No NYC barns here, we're in the Southern Tier of NY 3 hrs from that city TG! West of the Catskills and not far from the PA border actually. The barn is a good dry one, but it was a NY car after all so has the typical NY rust, floors, lower quarters, trunk... but still solid in some good places too.
Thank goodness for the easily available repop sheet metal, makes it far more feasible than a C-body.
On the firewall there's bits of original color under the black, it's sort of a medium olive green, sure wouldn't be my 1st choice. But not exactly complaining. The interior is the same kinda darkish green and not bad shape. Not matching #s, the original 440 is missing as the (then) kid blew it up over 30 yrs ago but now has a '66 440 with Carter AVS 4 bbl, 4 spd with pistol grip shifter, both out of car. Have 2 axles: both a 3.72 (?) and a 4.11 (?), one of them out of 1 of the parts cars.
Guess I'm gonna learn about B-bodies now. Here's an '58 NYer with 392 hemi that I had about the same time the kid had his 3 R/Ts.
I'm an experienced Mopar guy but not one of these Bs.
I'll no doubt be on here asking some questions now!
Pics of a few of the parts:
Happy Motoring from Roger in NY
No NYC barns here, we're in the Southern Tier of NY 3 hrs from that city TG! West of the Catskills and not far from the PA border actually. The barn is a good dry one, but it was a NY car after all so has the typical NY rust, floors, lower quarters, trunk... but still solid in some good places too.
Thank goodness for the easily available repop sheet metal, makes it far more feasible than a C-body.
On the firewall there's bits of original color under the black, it's sort of a medium olive green, sure wouldn't be my 1st choice. But not exactly complaining. The interior is the same kinda darkish green and not bad shape. Not matching #s, the original 440 is missing as the (then) kid blew it up over 30 yrs ago but now has a '66 440 with Carter AVS 4 bbl, 4 spd with pistol grip shifter, both out of car. Have 2 axles: both a 3.72 (?) and a 4.11 (?), one of them out of 1 of the parts cars.
Guess I'm gonna learn about B-bodies now. Here's an '58 NYer with 392 hemi that I had about the same time the kid had his 3 R/Ts.
I'm an experienced Mopar guy but not one of these Bs.
I'll no doubt be on here asking some questions now!
Pics of a few of the parts:
Happy Motoring from Roger in NY
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Quite the find! Just goes to show, they are still out there!.
Look forward to following your restoration.
Love the New Yorker very!!! He had a ton of parts so that’s a great thing
firedome
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Verified the 7th VIN digit is G (St. Louis) and the original color is F4 "Light Green Poly" ... looks more like Olive green,
I think about half of the Mopars were that color, my old '71 Fury III driver was "Sherwood Green", the same color pretty much. Good color to blend in and hide from the Fuzz! lol
I think about half of the Mopars were that color, my old '71 Fury III driver was "Sherwood Green", the same color pretty much. Good color to blend in and hide from the Fuzz! lol
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welcome to FBBO nice charger project
That shade of green and EF8
firedome
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At 74 I'm on the fence with what to do, as I have some health issues.
Though I've restored a lot of cars over 45 years in the hobby I'd have to farm out all the work now on this one. I'm down to 1 other car, a '69 Olds Cutlass (ducks and runs) that's 95% done after almost 5 years of work.
I'm really torn as this is the rarest and coolest car I've ever had the priviledge of owning. Been going back and forth for
3 weeks now ever since I got it. The wife strongly is in favor of no more projects. You know how that goes lol. So with
a lot of reluctance I think I will need to find a home for it with someone who has more time, energy, (and $ too!) for it. Probably one of the most desirable Mopars out there,
and though a big project, how many are there? So guess
I'll be putting an FS ad on here. It's a must see in person.
Though I've restored a lot of cars over 45 years in the hobby I'd have to farm out all the work now on this one. I'm down to 1 other car, a '69 Olds Cutlass (ducks and runs) that's 95% done after almost 5 years of work.
I'm really torn as this is the rarest and coolest car I've ever had the priviledge of owning. Been going back and forth for
3 weeks now ever since I got it. The wife strongly is in favor of no more projects. You know how that goes lol. So with
a lot of reluctance I think I will need to find a home for it with someone who has more time, energy, (and $ too!) for it. Probably one of the most desirable Mopars out there,
and though a big project, how many are there? So guess
I'll be putting an FS ad on here. It's a must see in person.
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