Hello all here.
I bought this car in October of 2014 from a panicked woman who was divorcing her husband. She posted the car on NY Craig's List and my wife saw the posting 20 minutes after. She showed it to me, knowing I was in the market for one and I called the lady up immediately. I told her, " Hold the car, i'm on my way from Vermont with cash in hand and a trailer." She did, and I did.
It's a 1967 Dodge Coronet 500 2 door hardtop that was 100% complete and a running & driving car with 69,000 original miles on it and a two owner car. My pal Rick & I trailered it back home to his place to unload and snap pics before I drove it to my place and slipped it into the garage. It stayed there until the fall of 2019 before rolling out on it's own tires. Just a rolling shell, but it saw daylight however briefly.
To begin the story of this car's transformation I went out to the garage that October day after getting her home and sat on a stool, a Home Depot bucket and a rolling seat at different points around the car, trying to decide what, exactly, I wanted to do with this car.
Mind you, I had had ample time to dream up different things while serving in far flung locals in the military.
I settled on a preliminary list of modifications that I felt would achieve two goals.
First, to make the car a one off creation of my own design that I would be proud to drive and enjoy. Second, to make these changes in such a way that anyone looking at the car would say to themselves, " Hmmm....something is different here...but I cannot put my finger on just what it is." In other words, to look like it might have been a factory design.
I hope that I have achieved those goals. Time will tell. It has had a great following so far across several forums. Many fans and few detractors.