ABodyBetty's new baby comes home!!!

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Well congrats are in order!!
ABodyBetty has a new baby and it's name is Fern.
Here are a few pics to get the project rollin!!!!!
Don't worry, it's going to look alot worse before it looks better!
Bring on the ugly!!!!!!

ABodyBetty, Heeeeeerrrrrrrreeeess your
NEW CAR!!!!!
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That new addition to the family looks like she is happy to be at a good home.
Congrat's on your new baby Fern :cheers:
I like your set of four door A's =P~ To cool.
 
You guys are funny too!!
Here's some pics after spending about 8 hours in torture!!!
End of first day & Fern wants her mommy!!!
& Boy is she gettin ugly! (not that she wasn't already!):happy10:

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Couple more end of first day.....

Night Dad, Night Mom, Night BOF, Baby, Vinnie, lex..........
NIGHT FERN & STOP RUSTING WILL YA??!!!8)

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You're too funny! Congrats!

Thanks man!

Your not supposed to drop babby on the head. LOL

Congrats on the new ride!

Thanks! BaBBY? That's what I do after pulling carpet & hitting with a rubber mallet, seeing rust ...(Sound = BABBYBABBYBABBYBABBY) (Visual walking away from car with finger horizontle across teeth, between lipps & making propper sound. See "SOUND" previous quote)!!!!!!!!!!!!:toothy10:
 
That new addition to the family looks like she is happy to be at a good home.
Congrat's on your new baby Fern :cheers:
I like your set of four door A's =P~ To cool.

Hey Memike!!!
Long time no here!
Thanks for the shout out!
Fern was a find! LOL!! We had been cutting back on everything due to everything! ABodyBetty had squirelled away some 5 bucks somehow for her new computer. With white death on it's way and BOF running 4 weeks broke down 2 ongoing, We needed spare ride. Not finding anything and bairley missing out on 75 valliant 2 door $750, I talked yard dawg to hauling me, him, cummins, & hauler 20 miles away to see the ugliest fairlane (65) I ever saw, (SPARE ME THE WISE CRACKS GUYS, DESPERATE TIMES & MEASURES!!) LOL!!!
We got there & the ex body shop owner who said it was solid, was totally rust. I said "No sir When I said I'd sleep on it, I was beeing polite".
(him) "Where's you're buddie going"
(ME) "He knows I'll never be able to spend the wifes money on a piece of crap like that!
(HIM) I'll let you have it for 400
Me) Is ther a faster way outa here.
The directions he gave: 1000 feet to stop. Right. 2 Blocks. Right 2 miles highway. Cool,
Second right, bend in road my eyes lock onto Fern. I'm swingin arms, leggs, can't talk mouth full of cherry pepsi, swallow STOPSTOPSTOPSTOP!!!!!!!:cheers:
Big cummins, screetchin HALT!!
Yard Dawg: I was wonderin what you were doin! I thought you were choking!
Me) I'll meet ya at the car throw the flashers!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had hood up, doors open, before Yard Dawg even caught up! He said someones goin ta shoot us! I told him to stand close to the car, they wouldn't dare!!
Sadly, no one home,, grass grown, mail box full......Military?? Left Note on dash that read: Would like to offer good home, friends and family, lots of attention & love to your Dart. Please call #, 812-##&-&%#@.
Thank You.
Didn't think we would hear a thing for at least a few months if at all, yet I couldn't stop thinking of her. 3 days later the call came. Then 1 week more calls, back & forth, Money? no not alot, but he wants way too much (so would I).
Finally on Sunday worked out a great barter + only shucked 2 bucks to boot!
She even drove over to our house on her own! (Delivered) I wanted them to drive it, I had only seen the car for 2 min. while the Dawgs Cummins was blocking the road!
Ferns old Dad is happy, as well as me & wifey. Drives good, needs tie rod end, muffler, ex manifold, speedo, rust/paint.
ABodyBetty already loves her and hasn't even driven her yet!!!:love7:
Sorry for the long post mike but thought you'd like a good karma story!:happy10:
It hardly ever happens to us, and this one came home on it's own cause we didn't have any REAL money for a safety car!

Thanks for the congrats! ABodyBetty will see thread in AM and probibly chime right in!
Have a great day Memike!!8)
 
What Are You Guys Smokin Out There.

Smoke? What Smoke???
Oh That.
That's just BOF's constant electrical gremlins again, you know, AHHHHHH Smoke in the **** pit!!! SHUT HER DOWN BUNKEY!!!!:happy10:

Besides limelite70, the question is....What are YOU smoking IN there? LOL!!!!8)
 
Your sure cornering the 4 door market:-s

Yeah megajoltman,
I really don't know what to make of that. I had a 65 4 door Dart in High School (75 - 79) that I despised & was very embarassed to drive. (Mom's hand me down when she got her 71 Nova.) You know with the peeps at school I was 1 notch up from a Rambler! (I like those now too!)
What started the new wave of Dart for our family was the boy had a great little car, Mercury whatever, their version of Escort Wagon. He never wanted to work on cars, "Only want to know where to put gas in and where's my keys/! He wrecked it, high speed wet curve. I made him do public transport, friends, whatever except drive 1 of our cars! He finally saved enough for me to get him a salvage Blazer s-10 (his Idea & hardly any funds). Broke down on way home. $1100.00 Drove for 10 months, rust repaired, paint detail, not bad!
10 MONTHS + 1 DAY, The "spider" injector started going again. Not wanting to spend 1K again, SOLD! for 2k!!!
The next car you get is going to be dependable, I can't keep paying to fix your rides!!!!
Later.......Hey Dad.....Did ya see the Dart in town for sale?
BING! IDEA LIGHT! AHH HAH MOMENT!!!! The most dependable car I ever owned and He's interested in a car on his own?!?!???
NO WHAT DART??????
The one in town on the main drag are you old and blind??
Awl son thats probibly a charger or something too rich for your blood. I'm pretty sure it was a 60 something cornet.
You are old and blind there's 2 of em, 1 Dart, ! Cornet!!!!
I saw copper Cornet, Dart was hiding between cars....
Dad, I stopped and it said $2200.00 on it.....
GET YOUR MONEY AND CELL PHONE AND LETS GO NOW!!!!!
1 week later I come home from work, garage open, son doing his own oil change, plugs, wires, etc, with the service manual I bought him the day afte he got his car!......................................6 months later I cash in a 401 and happened to see my 64 on Ebaby for $1450.00 and no one bidding!!! It was beautiful and at a Dodge dealer GA! SOLD!!!to me for 2k after last 5 min bidding war! Shipped home sight unseen for $500. Leaking big rust holes along back windshield but looked great!! LOVE at first sight and never looked back, driven daily going on it's 3rd winter & winnin shows.
Lay off and bankrupt (banks took Cummuns and wifes car, RV etc)
Led us to Ebaby again and "Bride of Frankenstein" was driven home from Louisville KY to Aurora, IN. $2K. Lots of work constantly sence then Dec 28, 08.
Now there's Fern, $200.00 + barter. We needed extra ride due to "BOF" (but had very little money and none to spare) always breaking down & hard to live with only 1 working ride (son moved out with his 69 & still drives daily with no car payment or repairs!)

4 Doors, yep! They are usually in pretty good shape or better. They are usually unmolested due to no one wanting to race them and "not cool"
Whatever,.....................They are cheap, dependable once dailed in, very cool, not hardly any around (try buying glass or gaskets for a 4 door) And every one seems to love them where ever we go! (sometimes not good! LOL!!)
Sorry so long but thats what led to the 4 door wave at my house. It's just weird back in the day the car most hated. In 78 I liked my 72 charger!!
But now we have:
Early A = 64, "golden aniversary" last year push button tranny, 1st year 273 V-8 in compact dart.
Mid A = 67 was the first year for new body style. Don't ever get one 67 4 door parts = impossible to find!!!!
Late A = Not much to say, but I hope I get to park the 64 this winter, she deserves a "no snow" winter!!
Like the 4 doors, but I WANT A 2 DOOR!!!! oh well, still love em!:love7:

Hope I didn't bore you with the 4 door toy story!:toothy10:
Have a great day megajoltman!:cheers:
 
She make look a little rough now but I know John can get her back into shape. The good thing she is at a loving home and not out to pasture. Hopefully she will be done soon and it is all cosmetic work. Anyone know wy I named her Fern?
 
Is that a scorch mark above the gas cap? You only check if the tank is full that way once.
Get some subframe connectors on that quick.
 
Is that a scorch mark above the gas cap? You only check if the tank is full that way once.
Get some subframe connectors on that quick.

Hey Elfin,
Thanks for reply.
The car had alot of blk soot/tree sap all over. Had more built up around top of cap. Got to looking, filler tube wallered out due to someone spinning caps past stops. Cap was barely hanging on. I thought the cap had been venting and leaking. ALSO: Someone has been trying to fast fix & trace many water leaks and had ran a bead of roofing tar around where the filler tube neck meets the body hole.
I had assumed the leaking gas/fumes had been slowly desolving the esters in the tar and had been collecting those vapors and tree sap along the vapor trail. Most of it washed off and I scrapped a new filler neck from doner yesterday.
Now you have my attention!!!!:read2:
What exactly do you mean when you say"You only check if the tank is full that way once.
Get some subframe connectors on that quick.[/quote]"
I'm not following on the:
scorch (assume you reffering to black mark above cap)
check if full? Check what?
And MOST importantly, Please tell me something is not going to blow up on Fern due to "SUBFRAME CONNECTORS" ???? Please advise on these so I can fix or replace. I have never had a no vent filler neck, newer 70's style emmissions control, computer, charcol cannister!!! There's alot more in the than on our other 60's style cars!
Is Fern going to blow up if I drive her down to get a muffler & tailpipe put on??
Or are you just pullin' my leg with a yuk yuk?? Please advise, see pics below and Thanks for the reply!!
John..........8)

Oh! went out and noticed! See the body waves 6" before & aft the cap, full top to bottom involved. I think the double tapped whatever caved the front fender!!!! I bet it smeared the cap right outa that filler tube!!!!LOL!!!! That's why it's all beat in and wallered out!!! HAHHAHAHAHH!!!!!!! Must have been snowy that day!!!

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Good save John. :cheers:
Fern looks right at home with Babe and BOF. 8)
Keep us updated.

Hey homecloned!
Saved is right. I told the old owner, if sat around another 6 months, I could haul it away for parts & scrap, but he'd have to pay me!
It would not have been enough left to patch together & drive!
Thanks for the shout out!!!
John8)
 
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