10-07-23, 02:15 PM
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!
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!
1972 Dodge Coronet, 318, 727 Torqueflite
