Hi Kid, Thanks for the compliment. When I bought the car, it was a complete rust bucket. I even thought I had taken on too big of a job once I saw all the hidden eaten metal. I had to replace both rear quarters, the trunk pans, the trunk extensions and the rear drivers frame rail. Both wheel wells in the back had to be cut and replacement metal was used. Inside behind the quarter, the heavy metal quarter rockers had to also be rebuilt onto the steel frame of the car. The whole back plate where the bumper goes through also had to be replaced. We had to brace the car in many places to keep the car together. There was also alot of metal behind the tail panel, around the lights, that had to be cut out and replaced. It was alot of work and alot of money but yes... it was mostly restored to the tag but I added alot of extras onto the car for myself. I love my 69 Bee and it is like a part of me now after going through all this. I am no pro. This is my first restore job. I now respect anyone that does this for a living. The only items that are not on the tag are the optional side scoops, interior color will be B5 blue with white trim upholstery instead of the B7 original blue, front disk brakes, power steering and AC is added onto the car. I have already stripped the original bench seats down to metal and blasted, then painted them. I found a black 68 road runner bench seat and put it in the car till the original bench seats are completed next month. The engine and transmission was in the trunk when I bought the car. The engine is the 383 that came with the car bored 30 thousand over and has 440 closed chamber heads with 1.6 roller rockers, edelbrock carburetor, edelbrock aluminum intake, aluminum water pump housing with aluminum water pump. I also installed MSD electronics instead of the old electronic system. If you look closely at the engine pics... you will see a march performance serpentine system instead of the old belt system. Chrome high output alternator (summit racing), chrome power steering pump (march performance), chrome AC compressor (march performance) and an aluminum 26 inch 3 layer radiator. The car was completely taken apart and put back together by my friend and I. We used all stainless steel bolts. I even made a bracket and put stainless steel horns back on the car which were made by ongaro. The two horns sound like the originals. One is a lo and the other a hi. Sounds good. I did put a grant steering wheel on it too. If you look at the firewall, you will notice it is smooth. We took all the wrinkles out of it and tried to give it a show car look. You will notice that we hid the wires the best we could. The wire harness is new by painless. There is alot of newer upgrades i did to the car. The whole front end was completely rebuilt. Of course, I had to put the 1970 pistol grip in it and put all new bushings in the Z bar assembly. Everything and i mean everything was either new or rebuilt and I am still working on it in my small three car garage. The grill, trim and the tailpanel will be the last thing i do on the car. All the glass is changed to reproduction tinted. The rear end was gone through and so was the transmission. Anyway... i could go on and on with this car. I and my freind have done so much to keep the original look of the car with upgrading the old failing components. It has always been my dream to build this car the way I wanted to build it and my dream is very close to a reality. Wish me luck in completing my dream and again... Thanks for the help!! Eddie
