Good morning everyone, I’m getting more and more excited about this car. It was sold to me as an original 28,000 mile car with parts of it having original paint. I didn’t believe it and didn’t buy it thinking that was even a possibility. In the pictures I could see the interior was pretty soiled, and the top needed to be replaced. Looking at the pics I figured the seller was just telling the story to get the car sold.
As time goes on, while taking it apart to document it, I am finding that this car actually could be an original 28,000 mile car, but it did have a total repaint at one point in it’s life. it seems as though the car has set a real lot , but indoors. I bought the car out of Mississippi but it has lived in Tennessee and Virginia at least as well as possibly Florida due to the fact of parking lot and inspection stickers that are on it. The really cool thing is is that it originally came out of Northampton Massachusetts which is only about a 40 minute drive away from where we live. Apparently very early in the game it left this area before it was driven through any salt. The last registered owners of the car owned it at least 30 years.
So far the only rust I can find are two tiny pinholes under the insulation in the driver side rear floor pan foot well, and two pinholes in the drivers rear quarter down low. I had a 73 sports roof back in 75 through about 85 that never saw winter and was really nice, even was in a couple of indoor real car shows and even that car eventually had to have rust repaired in both quarters, albeit very minor, like the size of tuna can lid, but that’s still way more than this car, so this is amazing to me. Sorry for the rant but I just had to tell somebody who would understand how exciting this is to discover.
