I think he was more excited to see it than I was, he called an hour after we talked and wanted to meet. Met him at a local Chuck-A-Burger (50's style cruise spot) to check it out. He had a folder full of pics, boy I wish it looked like that again!

We took it back to his house to show his 16 y/o, he sold it when he was one so he had only seen pics. He still had a handmade 4 x 3 wooden sign hanging up in his garage (he didnt live there yet when he sold the car but it still made it on the garage wall!) from when he showed it. The only draw back was he didnt want to part with all the pics so I got to choose a few. Maybe I'll sweet talk him into letting me take them for aday and get them scanned and get the originals back to him. We both cussed that the owner between us treated it like a disposable car.

His history was that when new it was ran hard and the 400 HO was blown, so it sat in a field for x amount of years until the hatchet man got a hold of it and pieced it back together with what ever drivetrain parts he could find, then his brother got it in the early 80's from him, after a few years he sold it to a dad in arkansas for his 15 y/o, who at 16 didnt want anything to do with it, and later traded it back to the first brother around 86 for a wedding ring, he was young and in love and the owner is a well known jeweler in the area, so he called him up and asked if he wanted it back in trade. They trailered it back and by 88 the owner I met bought it from his brother and then had put it in show condition, winning most he entered. In 93 he sold it to help pay for a larger garage on his house being built (the garage that has the show plaque in it now). the Guy who had it from 93 to 08 tore it up, from its glory, getting rid of the rally one's (68tpls400 now owns them!, PHS said Rally II's so I sold them, not knowing, no harm no foul) he raised the rear end, got rid it the carb, intake, distrubutor, put the solid American racing rims that are on it now. totally let the interoir deteroirate....AND now....it is my turn, to right the wrongs of the past...lol

I'll scan the pics and post them, in 1993 he sold the show condition car for 7500.00...how nice it woule be to rewind and cut out the last owner!