Thanks Kev, I sure can't believe it's being done myself. After all these years of tragic paint & bodywork it just might be a Lady after all!
As for the bumpers, I learned my lesson when I picked up my leaf springs from Espo's at Englishtown years ago.
Me and my friend order a set of leaf springs for my car and his `66 Charger. We figure we'll save a bundle on shipping and pick them up at E-town's spring swap meet, right? WRONG. The day we go to the swap meet it's raining like a sunofabitch.... an absolutely pure Biblical doomsday scenario. Unrelenting rain.... We go searching for Espo and find out they are on the FAR end of the OPPOSITE side of the track, all the way down the end of pit lane. We never realized how heavy a pair of leaf springs can be when they are proped-up on your shoulders and your walking wearing a plastic poncho that you can't see out of, while your glasses are fogging up, and your whacking people in the head, arms, and upper body as you come stumbling through the rain-soaked crowd. After about 15 solid minutes of bashing people like punching bags we high-jack a shopping cart from behind one of the vendors and run off with it. This greatly reduces our increasing fatigue...until we hit the mud-pits that Englishtowns parking lot becomes in the rain. Never mind the downpour we're experiencing. We push...drag....kick...and curse these leaf springs like a pair of traumatized Chimps. We finally make it to my car, stuff the damn things in the trunk, and proceed to sit in traffic for 3 1/2 hours trying to make the 60 mile drive from Old Bridge, N.J. to Queens, N.Y.
Short answer to your question on picking up my bumpers: NO ^%$#@#$% WAY.
BTW: If you were one of those people I whacked with a leaf spring, or if I stole your shopping cart, I'm sorry. It was not a planned attack on my fellow swap meet scroungers.
