Greetings all. On Nov. 17, 1976 I bought my first car. I was 17, a senior in high school, and I had started my very first job over summer vacation. I had some money saved up and I didn't want to keep borrowing my Mom's car. I had fun with it for a couple of years, then it started having electrical issues. So I moved on.
Of course as you get older, nostalgia starts to creep back into your life. For the last 5 years I have been seriously looking for another one. Cars would pop up here and there, but nothing really sounded like The One.
Then, at the end of Sept '21, IT appeared! It was a dark and lonely night on EBay when I saw IT. I contacted the seller for some additional info, and to make a long story short, it arrived on Oct 17.
So I present to you, except for the engine, an EXACT COPY of my very first car.
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1966 Barracuda. White, red interior, console w/floor shift. Mine was a slant 6, this has a 318, 727, and an 8 3/4 Sure Grip out of a 73 Plymouth. It originally was a 273 2bbl.
I bought it from a guy that got it from the estate of the previous owner who passed in 2019. Looking at the stack of receipts that came with the car, he spent a LOT of money restoring it. New paint, interior, brakes, suspension bushings and a bunch more. He passed before it could be completed, so there are a lot of little things that need to be done, like alignment, get the radio back in, and stuff like that.
Boy, talk about nostalgia smacking you upside the head! Visual yeah, but the sounds! The starter. The door closing. the little "spprrooiinngg" sound the latch makes when you shut the hood. I'm a happy guy!
I'll start a thread in the Restoration forum documenting the things I've done, and will do.
