You might be an "A-body owner" if......

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You go to the salvage yard, and your pulse quickens when you see a fresh A body thats just been added to their inventory.

You get even more excited if it looks like your the first to pick it over.

Your project takes waaay longer than anticipated to get on the road.

It blows your mind that 65 mustang taillenses are about $20 a pair, and your 67 cuda lenses are $180 a pair.

UPS, or USPS delivers boxes of parts to the house, and the kids are no longer excited to see packages, as they automatically say, its car parts for dad.

You ask your co workers to keep on the lookout for A bodies in peoples backyards.

Numbers matching doesnt matter to you, nor do you care that the fender build tag is gone.

You have heard of Galen Grovier, but since your fender build tag is long gone and you know your car originally came with a slant you dont feel inclined to seek out his advice.

When searching a swap meet for A body parts you feel like you won the lottery when you find 2 complete sets of hurst A body 4 speed linkages, and the seller doesnt know what they fit or are actually for and you barter and get both sets for $10.

Your even more doubly stoked because no other A body enthusiast at the same meet saw em before you did.
 
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If everyone you know and all your co workers greet you with the question "is the car done yet?"
If the neighbors drive by on the weekend just to look in your garage to see if the car is up or down.
If the 68 notchback F & R glass trim you need is down to one piece and you know you will have to
buy another entire set to get the one piece you need. (rear lower 1/2)
Your buddy building an E-body says "you built the wrong car"
If you buy an entire set of SBP wheels then decide to go LBP on everything and buy an entire set of
LBP rally wheels.
If you wonder if you should go ahead and source a 360 LA just in case the 273 doesn't cut it.
If you decide there is no way you are willing to spend the money or heartache just to have headers.
If your car is one of the only 60's cars that never came with factory dual exhaust, even the HP version.
If the glass shop that you bought the new front glass from stores it and the rear glass for 6 years before
installing them and takes extra care getting it right even with the 68 gaskets on your 67. (doing mine now)
 
When people find out you own a mopar, then they tell you that a classic mopar is a rich mans car, but you dont feel particularly wealthy because your repop taillamp lenses cost $180 a pair on sale.
 
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You freak out when you find out a repop positive batt cable is $135, so you make your own for cheap.
 
You think your car is posessed because the electric operated gages in the dash have a mind of their own. Then you find out its just a bad IVR.

When you cant find it on the back of the dash to replace it, your reminded its mounted inside the fuel gage on a rallye dash!!!

Your friends wonder why you are building a "granny car" instead of a bellybutton muscle car. You tell em because its light and cheap.

Then you realize you lied to your friends when you open the restoration catalogs and find out that everything is double or triple of a bellybutton muscle car, or not repopped and you have to repair the broken piece you have.

Your coworker (ricer) thinks your A body is a "heavy" car. Says its 4,000 lbs. You calmly tell him nope 3,000 lbs with fuel.

You google it, he still doesnt believe it.

(This happened to me for real)

You own a beak car, and when you gut all the extra support structure from behind the front and rear bumpers you pick up 2 10ths in the quarter mile.

When shopping at the boneyard you look under the *** end of every A body hoping you will see the sexy rear cover of an 8&3/4.

You get pissed when you see a pegleg 7&1/4 under every one of em.

You know there is no bump steer on FMJ spindles and you dont care.

Rock auto is your cross reference guide, and you use it as much as visiting FABO.

Your idea of a hybrid is an LA360 with magnum heads.
 
Your 2 years + away from completing project car and you already know your parking
spot across from the Chebbies at your local car cruise night...........
 
If you actually know what an FMJ is, and which parts from it will work on your A body.

You wish wheel companies would come out with new designs for a 5 bolt 4" circle.

Finding an 8&1/4 in the junkyard is your close second to finding an 8&3/4 , so you still look under the *** end of every A body in hopes you will find one of these.

You have either given up hope of finding either, or you recognize that smart and thrifty is the way to go. So you buy that Furd Xploder 8.8 disc brake rear out of a sport trak for $200 and modify to suit, and congratulate yourself for getting 3.73 gears, rear disc brakes, and a limited slip.

You dont care that the purists cry and ***** about Furd parts on a mopar, so you add insult to injury by telling em you also are using a GM 200 4R O/D automatic with an adaptor behind your LA small block.

You go to the Dodge dealer with a tape measure and a spiral notebook to look at a new hell kitty just to take engine and transmission measurements.
 
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if your six year old, who is sitting in the back seat, tells you you need to install a supercharger so you can do a better burn out and you are trying to figure out a way to sneak that one passed the missus because IT IS BRILIANT
 
When the 20 year old pulls up next to you and says. Hey Man !!!!!! What year mustang is that?
 
Your neighbors call the cops on you every night at 10:05 for loud noises and then after 2 years of making their life miserable and still have 2 years left they get mad and move. YES THEY DID!
 
You might be an "A-body owner" if......Pretty much every time you drive somewhere, some asks "what kind of car is that"
 
You think the prices of stuff in the repop catalogues are insane, but you buy the parts anyway.
 
If you know for a fact that 4 cans of beer will fit in the right vent door and 3 in the left , to cool off on a fall night. Plus several laid down in front of the radiator.
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If you know for a fact that 4 cans of beer will fit in the right vent door and 3 in the left , to cool off on a fall night. Plus several laid down in front of the radiator.
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I've gotten a 12 pack in the right and I think 7 in the left. Just don't want to have to do it when the cops are behind you. Back 45 years when we were minors.
 
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