Some good news
This is my car that i bought to replace my original convertible thankfully i still have my original car as the rusty floor and boot of new car can be replased out of my old car rusty except floor and boot this car is from California my original car has been in Australia since 1974

this is my original car owned since 1999 it has had a hard life stolen wrecked rebuilt repainted original colour was a pale green gold then greishen gold then a dark metalic blue then the dark blue you see here then stripped for rebuilding to find all sorts of problems from frame (chassis )bent steering conversion was done useing L/H stearing box mounted into the right hand frame rail will post fotos of conversion top speed of this car well speedo only goes to 120mph i went past that motor is 400 cleveland with big cam port polish over size pistons forged 12.9 redused to 10.7 heads olso port relieved with 4V valves open chamber to drop compression to the 10.7 the closed chamber heads well kept blowing gaskets edlebrock performer manifold holly 780 edlebrock air cleaner and M/T rocker covers carby etc now on new car

it looked good in 2000

had a lot of fun yes had to use the sun screen on me head till hair grew back hair cut cost family and freinds a lot of money for charity

this was north of Mt Newman returning from Broome went everywhere in this car i traveled about 40K miles in three years tyres at thr time this photo taken were 295/50   15 BFG and 245/60 15 BFG only got about 10K out of them probably because they used to keep going up in smoke car was surprisingly economical at 65 miles an hour 110kms average about 20 mpg and occasional 25mpg but i was happy with the 20mpg

got her home trying out my old wheels as against wheels car came with decided on my rims armalites with 275/60 15 tyres on rear with 255/60 15 on front
A quik list of some of the cars i have owned
1937 Oldsmobile with straight 8
1948 Oldsmobile 6 cyl
55/56/57/63/69/72 Pontiacs
1960 Cadillac seies 60 FLEETWOOD
Fords varius 1966 Galaxie Falcon Fairlanes up to 1977
Holdens varius 1960 to 1977
Buick Dodge Valient HAD A FEW
yes i like cars oh and a 1961 Chev belair hopfully this is my last car for now