I have been absent from this forum for quite a long time. I got an email about the changes to the site and that is what has caused my return. I have no idea where I was at in the restoration of my car when I dropped off of the site. I am including some pictures to show where my car stands today.
I was driving to a local car show, when my car died two blocks away from my house. It felt like it ran out of gas, but my fuel gauge showed otherwise. I walk the two blocks back home and put a gas can in the trunk of my daily driver. I went back to the RT, poured the gas in the tank, but it would only run when I put fuel down the carb. I reached around down where the fuel hoses were at, and when I pulled on the hose supplying the fuel pump, half of the fuel pump came right off the car. Being only two blocks from home, I really didn’t wanna call for a tow truck. I went back home and got a 1 gallon, plastic, gas jug, and attached a fuel line to the air inlet of the jug. I hooked up the other end of the fuel hose to the gas filter. I had to blow into the spout of the gas jug to get gas into the carb. I had to do that two more times in order to get it all the way home. Has anyone ever seen a pump break like this?
I got an email saying to " let us know how you and your car are doing"
Well, I'm getting older along with her. Closer to 60 than I'd like. And I am passing much of the maintenance of my girl on to my sons, who are 23 and 17.
The good news?
After sitting for 10 years, we replaced her fuel lines, fuel filter, and pressure regulator, added some seafoam and fresh gas, and she lives! Next steps to make her road: Replacing the floor plan in front (I can currently Fred Flintstone it). Replacing the hard and soft brake lines. Cosmetic stuff. I plan to drive her from KS to St. Charles MO next spring for my 40th high school reunion.
For those who don't remember me from the days when I was on here every day, I have a '72 Dodge Coronet.
She was my first car, bought in 1980 for $300. Drove it all through high school, and 2 marriages. My Dad was a mechanic, and I grew up in garages listening to guys lamenting how they wished they'd kept their first car, so I did. Fast-forward to 1993, as my second marriage crumbled, the wife gave me an ultimatum: The car goes, or she does. I made the wrong choice, and sent my baby to a junkyard.
2 years later, I marry my third wife, and though this is incredible, you will all know soon why she is the best wife in the world. The day we got married, she started searching, in secret, for my car. We had dated in high school, and she knew how important the car was to me. Since I sent a running vehicle to the junkyard, instead of crushing it, they sold it.
My wife spent the next 6 years tracing the car from one owner to another, and after 6 years, she found the current owner. Though we were living outside Lawrence KS by this point, amazingly the current owner lived in Lawrence, a looong way from St. Charles, what are the odds, right?
She spent the next year begging and convincing him to sell it to her.
On our 7th anniversary, she presented it to me.
And that's a BIG part of why we will be celebrating our 27th anniversary next month!
I may or may not have introduced myself back when I joined months ago but here's the car and an update on it. We got a 1970 Coronet 500 from Las Vegas N.M. It's an interesting town, they make lots of movies and TV shows there.
'70 Coronet 500 hardtop light yellow or cream colored
383 2bbl on the column
Buckets seats with buddy seat saddle brown.
It has very little rust living in N.M. its whole life but the interior took a bad sun baking. It has some dings but the driver's door is pretty bad. I'm looking for a new door and I know all B-Bodies (not Charger) from 68 to 70 have the same door. It looks like it was an old person's car. It had full hubcaps and a factory rub strip down the full length of the body. I can find no signs of Day 2 modifications. It wasn't running when I got it but the engine would turn over. This summer I pulled the plugs and drenched the cylinders with Marvel Mystery oil. A month later we tried starting it and could get it to run for about a minute with gas poured in the carb. I put new tires and 15" steelies with dog dish hubcaps on them.
I look forward to working on it more but I have other cars on the front burners right now.
: Replacing the floor plan in front (I can currently Fred Flintstone it). Replacing the hard and soft brake lines. Cosmetic stuff. I plan to drive her from KS to St. Charles MO next spring for my 40th high school reunion.
