I highly doubt very many of you remember my 1975 Scamp. It was the car that got me on FABO, the car that got me into A-bodies and in 2010 at the ripe old age of 16, it was my first car. I didn’t know much about these cars back then and some of the “big issues” back then are things that wouldn’t be real hard for me to fix now.
Well, after a few years years of ownership and having no extra money to get anything done on the car, I decided to sell it and put the money toward our upcoming wedding. That was spring of 2013.
The kid who bought the car had big plans of turning it into a roadster. When they got the car home, he parked it behind his dads shop and in the past 6 years, he never touched the car once. The dad ended up getting the car out and driving it to the store down the road a few times, then parked it again 2 years ago.
Fast forward to the first of this week, the dad texts me and asks if I’d wanna buy the Scamp back. So I threw a few things up for sale, scratched the money together and went and bought her back last night! Let me tell y’all, this car us a freaking time capsule! Everything is exactly the same as it was when I sold it!
View attachment 1715275114 The night they bought it, I put some extra parts in a box and put them in the back seat, the box is still right there!
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My license plate is still in the front seat!
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Even the chrome/wood grain door lock pulls, that I bought in 2010 on the way home from buying the car, are still there!
The only thing different that I can tell is this locking gas cap.
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The car has a fair amount of rust. It’s gonna need floor pans, trunk pan and extensions, a passenger fender (I may just repair it), a full drivers quarter and a lower passenger quarter. But I’m perfectly ok with that! I have my Scamp back and I’m tickled pink!! I’m considering naming the car microbe, germ, bug, virus or something along those lines, because it’s the car that cause me to come down with this A-body disease!
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Oh, and to make the story even better, when they were at our place to buy the car, the dad saw an extra slant 6 and transmission that I had and he said he may be interested in buying it. Well he took my number and a few weeks later I delivered the engine to him. Last night we discovered some we both thought was pretty cool. When he got ahold of me to buy the slant 6, I saved his number as “Slant 6 Buyer”, when I told him that last night, he laughed, whipped out his phone and pulled up my contact info and when he saved my number the night they bought the car, he saved my number as “Slant 6”
