What's your motor vehicle history?

[FlyingClayDisk]

Yeah, I don't think I'll ever buy new again, 

You spend that much time, money, and effort on a ride, it's no wonder you get attached. I never had the skills, tools, or room to restore properly, but relatives and friends did.

My Dad found my older sister's car 1972 Nova 350 SuperSport, it was fairly beat up, but Dad got it running cherry. The exterior wasn't decked out too much, but it would haul ass. So many guys were jealous of her ride, that she got a few speeding tickets IIRC. My brother then inherited it, and got it looking sharp as hell. I was hoping to get it, but my brother got an offer and sold it. 

I'd give my left nut for a restored ride like this today. 

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That one is almost identical to mine, same year.  I'd have to see the paint code on the orange on the pictured Jimmy, but it looks like a direct match to mine (possibly one shade darker).   I want to say my paint code was DuPont 80-980 'Corvette Orange', and the one you've pictured is damn close if not it (but there's some shadows in the picture which make it hard to confirm).  It was the stock OEM color on the 1973 Corvette Stingray.

I forgot to mention, I removed the metal trim off of mine and filled the holes.  I wanted to go with a single color, not the two tone.  That Chevy / GMC trim always got banged up anyway, plus it promoted rust underneath.  So, I pulled it off.  As noted, I went with the 2-stage lacquer, which was the Corvette Orange undercoat (about 8 lacquer layers, buffed out between coats), and then 2 coats of enamel clearcoat over top of that.  I normally painted a lot of my vehicles in my shop, but for that job I rented a restoration shop's positive pressure paint booth.  It came out perfect.  I did leave the fiberglass top white though, just like the one in the picture.  Mine didn't have the rack on top though.  And, I didn't put nerf bars on it so I had full ground clearance.

I added a little over 1" of lift on the front to level it out, but otherwise left the rest of the suspension alone.  I did put some gas shocks on it though.  She was sure 'sexy' when I got done.  Classy understatement, which has always been my automotive style.  (with a sleeper under the hood, of course!)

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Hell my Dad had a 1969 Chocolate Brown Pontiac Bonneville, I wish we still had it, it would book, but it was a family car, I can only imagine a GTO convertible. If I ever hit the lottery I'll get a convertible muscle car of some kind, the GTO is top shelf 

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Couldnt find a brown one 
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Good grief, that's one good lookin' GOAT!  Mom had a '71 Pontiac Custom SS that I was going to get from her one day, but some knucklehead T-boned my dad in it one day and totaled it.  She wound up replacing the Mustang II (which replaced the Custom SS after it was wrecked) I noted previously with a '78 Trans-Am.  She owned that car up until her passing.  I had fully restored that car for show.  My wife and I put it in the Woodward Dream Cruise in Detroit.  Basically identical to the Smokey & The Bandit car, but candy apple red w/white leather interior.  Had the T-tops and the whole 9 yards.  That was a cool car, but it wasn't really worth anything, not like the old GTO's are.  Only negative about her car was it had an automatic in it (which was sacrilege for the T/A, in my opinion) (she never learned to drive a 4 spd.).

I cracked up when we sold that car.  The Ad we ran said..."1978 Trans-Am.  33,500 original miles.  Fully restored.  Always garaged.  Driven by a little old lady who only drove it not to church, but to Krogers for groceries."  Sold the car by Noon on the first day the ad ran.