ABodyBetty's 1st Baby Comes Back Home!!!!
WOW!
WE NEED ANOTHER NAME!!!
Here's the official shout out to the FABO membership to name our oldest baby! Take a look at our new restore thread here, post back to us with your suggestion of a name. (Keep it clean!)
ABodyBetty's first baby is comming home!
1969 Dart Custom, slant 6, auto, 4 DOOR!!!! (Big Suprise on the 4 doors LOL!)
Couple years ago we got this car for her son and invested alot of time and love in it for him with dibs if he ever resold. Well guess what? He called and wants to sell back to us for orig. purchase price!
He will be dropping it back off over here soon.
Sense I am 50% complete with what little body work it needed, I thought I would go ahead and get started on her restoration thread.
She's gonna need more work when she gets here too. Her bumpers are looking rusty and some other things have been going downhill too.
Anyway, I will be posting pics of the car throughout the day. Then when she comes home we will announce the winning name! (I'll try to figure out some kind of carnival prize for the winner)
Anyway, Here's some history....
Was purchased locally off the side of the road. Was purchased from estate and had been stored approx. 25 years! Yes we had to take apart rear end (bearings setting too long), replaced fuel system, and everything else! The car was in like showroom on the inside. Retired school teacher (no joke) bought it new and only drove it in her home town, work, church, groceries! (Her son had bought a copper colored Cornet at the same time from the same local dealer in the small SW Indiana town. He drove his for a bit. Left for the Nam. Sadly, he never returned. She then left her sons car in storage sense then and never drove it!)
When she got on in years, seems she got to the point of "The garage door is getting smaller" and started using the car as a pin ball on a bumper as she was pulling in/out each time. She keep scraping both sides, front fenders, all doors, and both rear quarters! The family finally took the keys.
The son spotted it.
"Hey John, did you see that Dart down on 50?"
"That wasn't a Dart, that's a Cornet and it's too rich for your blood."
"What, are you getting old and blind too? There's a Dart down there."
"Oh there is not"
"Yes there is. I stopped and they only wanted $2500.00 for it." (We still talked the price down!!!!)
"You still got all you're money?"
"Yeah and some extra too."
"Well get all you're money, drivers license and lets go!"
We get there and sure enough! It was parked between the Cornet (Women's Son's car) and a pick up and I hadn't seen it!
We took it for a quick test drive and we bought it! He's been driving it everyday sense (over 2 years). We even had it at a local show when we first bought it. The only seat that had ever been sat in was drivers. All the rest of the seat belts were all still wrapped in the original plastic with rotted rubber bands included!
Alright, pictures to follow.
Please post back with name suggestions!
Thanks! Now for your enjoyment, the pics!:cheers:
WOW!
WE NEED ANOTHER NAME!!!
Here's the official shout out to the FABO membership to name our oldest baby! Take a look at our new restore thread here, post back to us with your suggestion of a name. (Keep it clean!)
ABodyBetty's first baby is comming home!
1969 Dart Custom, slant 6, auto, 4 DOOR!!!! (Big Suprise on the 4 doors LOL!)
Couple years ago we got this car for her son and invested alot of time and love in it for him with dibs if he ever resold. Well guess what? He called and wants to sell back to us for orig. purchase price!
He will be dropping it back off over here soon.
Sense I am 50% complete with what little body work it needed, I thought I would go ahead and get started on her restoration thread.
She's gonna need more work when she gets here too. Her bumpers are looking rusty and some other things have been going downhill too.
Anyway, I will be posting pics of the car throughout the day. Then when she comes home we will announce the winning name! (I'll try to figure out some kind of carnival prize for the winner)
Anyway, Here's some history....
Was purchased locally off the side of the road. Was purchased from estate and had been stored approx. 25 years! Yes we had to take apart rear end (bearings setting too long), replaced fuel system, and everything else! The car was in like showroom on the inside. Retired school teacher (no joke) bought it new and only drove it in her home town, work, church, groceries! (Her son had bought a copper colored Cornet at the same time from the same local dealer in the small SW Indiana town. He drove his for a bit. Left for the Nam. Sadly, he never returned. She then left her sons car in storage sense then and never drove it!)
When she got on in years, seems she got to the point of "The garage door is getting smaller" and started using the car as a pin ball on a bumper as she was pulling in/out each time. She keep scraping both sides, front fenders, all doors, and both rear quarters! The family finally took the keys.
The son spotted it.
"Hey John, did you see that Dart down on 50?"
"That wasn't a Dart, that's a Cornet and it's too rich for your blood."
"What, are you getting old and blind too? There's a Dart down there."
"Oh there is not"
"Yes there is. I stopped and they only wanted $2500.00 for it." (We still talked the price down!!!!)
"You still got all you're money?"
"Yeah and some extra too."
"Well get all you're money, drivers license and lets go!"
We get there and sure enough! It was parked between the Cornet (Women's Son's car) and a pick up and I hadn't seen it!
We took it for a quick test drive and we bought it! He's been driving it everyday sense (over 2 years). We even had it at a local show when we first bought it. The only seat that had ever been sat in was drivers. All the rest of the seat belts were all still wrapped in the original plastic with rotted rubber bands included!
Alright, pictures to follow.
Please post back with name suggestions!
Thanks! Now for your enjoyment, the pics!:cheers:
