Thank you for the warm welcomes. I do recall some love bugs at TWS. Made a mess of the car. Th HO may return to my garage this year. Spoke with the guy I sold it to last week.....details pending.
The Q code is mostly original, missing only exhaust manifolds. It needs restored though. Not really a driver yet. My plan is to get it running properly: brakes, belts, fluids, etc. I’ve removed the front suspension and will replace it with the recently removed front suspension off my Boss 302 T/A replica. Going to detail the inner fender areas. Add new brake lines and general tart up. Will probably just change the leaf spring bushings and shocks in back. Then upgrade the interior. I have some left over 69 Mach 1 carpet with the red inserts going in. Changing the interior from ginger to black.
The original color is 5H medium ginger/brown metallic. Not going to paint it brown. It’s currently a non FOMOCO red w/ gold metallic. I had a 68 torino with the same paint, I think. Bonus. It has a hideous frenched in power antenna. I’m not motivated to paint it now. Once I get it driving for a while, I may take it al apart for a proper resto in 2020.
The car has very little rust. Found one small area in the shock tower low. The battery tray area is rotten out. Needs rear floor pans. Had a repair job, probably when it was painted. I hope to have it on the road by end of March.
I’ll have to get the pictures off my phone. I don’t seem to have any on this iPad.