What a warm welcome! Thanks guys. I'm preeeetty sure it's a '71. Just checked the dash plate but I'll check the fender later. My Uncle Vic was a handy man and "fixed" a lot of little things his own way. It makes sorting out the wiring quite interesting. The front of the car looks a tiny bit racked as if it were hit on the front left...maybe someone replaced the grille with a '73. Here's a little piece I had in my original post on VMF which I think scared everyone away with its length.
My mother's uncle (my great uncle) was an incredible man who lived a live cooler life than Forrest Gump. He lived in Topanga, Ca where he kept his '65 Mustang Conv (left to my aunt), '56 T-Bird Continental (still there with his wife), and left this '71 to my brother and I.
From what I know, he bought it on a whim off the original owner (it wasn't even for sale) in Palm Springs in '76. Uncle Vic used to tell me it was a custom order, and from what I can find on the internets, it is one of a kind. Any convertible I find that is metallic blue (which may or may not have this many bells and whistles) still doesn't have white decals. Always silver. I honestly could not have ordered a more perfect muscle car with a million dollars in the 70's (when I WISH I were in high school). My favorite colors, my favorite model, my favorite make, with THE big a** motor. I'm still in awe at how it came to be mine and I thank my Uncle Vic every day-God Bless him.
[The Project]
I've got a little nest egg from my last job on ocean tugs in HI. Too little to buy my truck right now so that'll have to wait a few months for the next job.
SO-I need a DD, the stang needs to gallop, I need sh*t to do, and I've got a little dough to throw at it...PERFECT! (If anyone's envious of my 'predicament', rest-assured I fully appreciate where I am in life.
I never plan on selling this car and would like to keep it in the family till the earth explodes, so I'm not going to be inconveniently religious about keeping every bolt stock. However, I would like to keep it as stock as possible because it makes it so much more valuable...just in case. Any 'mods' I make will ideally be removable/unnoticeable/"worth it, so eff it".
The car was used very regularly by my Uncle Vic and I have service records ALL the way back (awesome). Many components (steering pumps, etc.) have been replaced several times, so, the car runs like a freakin sewing machine.
::welcome:: From North county San Diego. Nice convertible. What part of SoCal are you from?
No fasten seat belt lite above glove box? 71? or 73?
Thanks mach! LA pretty much...Dad's in Topanga, Mom's in Westchester (near LAX), girlfriend's school in Riverside, her parents in Huntington Beach. I'm allll over the place these days. I've got family in Kensington down there if you know where that is. Bunch of friends down there too. Maybe one day we can meet up! I've been hoping to make a road trip down there soon.
Love the 71-73 verts and welcome from Arkansas
Thanks! My Dad's side is from Arkansas. Grandpa from Jonesborough (sp?), Grandma from Rector. Other family in Little Rock/Greers Ferry.
