The lame model selector will not let you actually write the correct model in the box, even though it is far from an inclusive list.

I bought this as running street rod in June 1989, so I could take it to the last NSRA Street Rod Nationals in St Paul MN. After several weeks of very frantic work to make it run and ride right and rebuilt the seat so you could see out of the car, we blasted off for a 1600 mile trip. Drove around Chicago in a 4" monsoon rain and back through Wisconsin and the Michigan Upper Penninsula over the fabulous Mackinac bridge, back to Detroit. We put on around 3,000 miles a year for the next 10 years, modifying and improving a little each winter. At the NSRA Nats North in Kalamazoo in 1999, a moron was cruising through a motel parking lot, when he "accidently" didn't see my parked car and put a 2 foot divot in the right front fender! It was about 4" wide and 4" deep. I had been looking for good steel fenders for the last several years and never found any at any price. So I had a local shop cut out and fabricate the sheet metal repair. I should have fixed the fender and sold the car then and there!

As it was, I started to chase the bodywork around the car, until I got to the point of having to take the body off the frame to do some rusty sill repairs. The realization set in I was going to have a $40k car on a $20k chassis. So this started an even more expensive cascading of work to build an entirely new chassis with an aluminum 81 Vette rear end, and a Kugel Jag stainless steel independent front suspension, an A518 overdrive transmission and lots of neat features in a very pretty frame. I will have more pix of project milestones as I get time to post them.

Moral of the story: Don't fix everything! I would have been way better off to have fixed the fender, and just sell the car, starting over with a completely new car. I would have saved thousands of dollars and years of aggravation, and gotten a cabriolet in the process!