Hello friends. I was hoping that you good folks could help me with selecting a decent starter for my 68 Fairlane Fastback. Just last night we spent the better part of 2 hours removing a new starter that had my entire motor locked up. I had heard the pinion gear skip a few times in he past month make a sort of skipping sound when the battery got a little weak from sitting and then a couple of weeks ago went to start it and just the solenoid was clicking. Thinking the battery had a problem did a full charge and still the same outcome. Last night we tried to turn the motor over using a breaker bar and the whole motor would not budge in either direction. I'm sure if you have ever worked on this type of car that you know that the starter location along with the header, transmission lines and lack of room anywhere around where you need to work is very aggravating to say the least. Anyway after finally getting the starter back off and shot putting it across the yard, we scooped it up to examine the problem. The teeth on the end of the pinion gear were worn and damaged but the starter was not seized up. It turned freely which makes no sense as to why my motor would not budge. My flywheel is brand new and luckily we did not see and damage to the teeth on that. This motor does have a recent rebuild with a race cam, bored .060 over so I'm assuming that I need a better starter with a better made pinion gear. I was hoping someone might have a good recommendation on a decent brand starter that will work my my situation. As always I greatly appreciate everyone taking the time to help me with my problem and am very grateful for your knowledge. Yes I now know that it was foolish of me to put a standard performance starter in high performance set up so please forgive my stupidity.