Mods
- “Custom” Cat-less Exhaust System\r
- “Custom” Radio Delete\r
- Enhanced Weight Reduction\r
- "Custom" Paint Job
- “Custom” Radio Delete\r
- Enhanced Weight Reduction\r
- "Custom" Paint Job
Build story
I got the car in 2017 and it’s been an adventure since. The car has 58,000 original miles, and it’s got some interesting quirks. It’s got a factree cat-less exhaust from some old pipe welded in, it’s got a radio that was yanked out, and it’s got some weight reduction in the frame and the driver’s floor pan. The back window was smashed out, and a raccoon and her kids made a home in the backseat in winter 2018 (and some mice for 10 years before I pulled it). The top was ripped off on the highway and it’s held with some packaging tape. Did I make a mistake with buying it? I don’t know. It's about as reliable as an old mule; it's ready to die sometime.\r
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Engine: \r
It’s the 260 cu. in. V8 with 110 horsepower. It’s slower than the turtle from The Tortoise and the Hare, but this thing isn’t steady. The radiator leaks but that’s original and it adds value to it. The exhaust was hacked up by someone and stole the catalytic converter for some money (at least according to my grandpa) and was replaced with some metal pipe from the hardware store. It has some growl but no bite.\r
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Transmission: \r
It’s a TH-200 Metric transmission, which I don’t think has much life left in it. The fluid in it is probably original from 1978, so I’m going to do the right thing and not change the fluid until it blows. \r
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Body:\r
It’s mostly rust free, except for the trunk lid. There’s no major holes in the body thankfully, except for the floor pan. The paint has been faded from sitting a barn with holes in the siding and it ruined the paint. The passenger side was hit by a deer in the 90’s and was Bondo’d back into place. The windshield is scratched from cats scratching it, and there was a foot high of bird crap when I found dug it out. The back window was replaced after it was smashed out in the early 2000’s after someone was angry with grandpa and smashed it. The vinyl top ripped off the highway one day, and it’s been held with tape since the day I got it. \r
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Interior: \r
The backseat has lost half of its cushion after raccoon decided to birth it’s babies in the back of my car, and my grandpa shot the mother raccoon in the car (the bullet hole is still somewhere to be found). The radio was ripped out after I tried to listen to it, and it doesn’t have any speakers. The heater controls are somehow my fast idle controls (if I take it off of the defroster, high idle shuts off). It reeks of mothballs after they were thrown into the car to deter the mice. \r
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Overall, it’s the perfect blend between fun and fearing for my life. Is the prettiest? No. Is the fastest? Absolutely not. Is it practical? No. Is it ridiculous? Kind of. Is it factree? Yes.
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Engine: \r
It’s the 260 cu. in. V8 with 110 horsepower. It’s slower than the turtle from The Tortoise and the Hare, but this thing isn’t steady. The radiator leaks but that’s original and it adds value to it. The exhaust was hacked up by someone and stole the catalytic converter for some money (at least according to my grandpa) and was replaced with some metal pipe from the hardware store. It has some growl but no bite.\r
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Transmission: \r
It’s a TH-200 Metric transmission, which I don’t think has much life left in it. The fluid in it is probably original from 1978, so I’m going to do the right thing and not change the fluid until it blows. \r
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Body:\r
It’s mostly rust free, except for the trunk lid. There’s no major holes in the body thankfully, except for the floor pan. The paint has been faded from sitting a barn with holes in the siding and it ruined the paint. The passenger side was hit by a deer in the 90’s and was Bondo’d back into place. The windshield is scratched from cats scratching it, and there was a foot high of bird crap when I found dug it out. The back window was replaced after it was smashed out in the early 2000’s after someone was angry with grandpa and smashed it. The vinyl top ripped off the highway one day, and it’s been held with tape since the day I got it. \r
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Interior: \r
The backseat has lost half of its cushion after raccoon decided to birth it’s babies in the back of my car, and my grandpa shot the mother raccoon in the car (the bullet hole is still somewhere to be found). The radio was ripped out after I tried to listen to it, and it doesn’t have any speakers. The heater controls are somehow my fast idle controls (if I take it off of the defroster, high idle shuts off). It reeks of mothballs after they were thrown into the car to deter the mice. \r
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Overall, it’s the perfect blend between fun and fearing for my life. Is the prettiest? No. Is the fastest? Absolutely not. Is it practical? No. Is it ridiculous? Kind of. Is it factree? Yes.