No I cant find the post but the car belonged to
@fury fan I believe.
Correct, owned the car many years ago, details are in that thread.
For a general re-cap - the trunk floor had been replaced with sheetmetal prior to me owning it, and whole car (including trunk floor) were painted (likely 10+ years prior, as the paint was micro-checked). Not resto-quality work but whomever did hte work took some pride.
Had roofrust, I peeled the vinyl , ground/filled the rust as best I could, and painted with black Rusto.
Rust came back to the same extent within a few years, so spent a week repeating the Hail-Mary repair.
But this time it was also showing a lot of bubbling in the bondo that was along all the bottom edges of the quarters, rear wheelarches, bottoms of fenders and doors.
I knew it was going to explode within a few years (it was still somewhat shiny and one color at this point) and the rust repair was more than I wanted to tackle.
So I traded it to a buddy for a different car and some stuff.
He had some issues wiht it runing hot and being sluggish, and after a lot of diagnosing and parts-swapping, he installed a different 383-2 and it ran like new again (he gave me the orig 383 back).
He sold it to a local guy that was 'going to do something with it' - which was to immediately flip it on ebay with a lot of false info (original paint, orig engine, etc).
I contacted the winning bidder and told them the orig 383 was in my garage if they wanted it. I never heard from them. Eventually I scrapped that engine.
It could've had a lot of quality sheetmetal repair done to it since then, and it has a VT again, and it sure is straight/shiny.
But definitely needs knowledgable eyeballs before dropping $14k on it.
It is def cool with hte original color and early build - I do wish I still had it (minus the rust issues, of course).
My dream for it was body-colored wheels, PlyDiv dogdishes, and redline tires. Somewhat of an A-12 RR kinda thing...
