Little $250 69 Valiant

Life happens right?
Yeah...
I am very fortunate to say that no life changing events have kept me from progress, as much as funding and enjoying my family which is far more important than my little Valiant..

SO... Here is the basic rundown.
As the above pictures show, I had my car at a local rod and custom shop owned by a friend. I was initially going to do the body work myself inside his shop. Just as I was going to tell all the people that feed me side work, that I was taking a break to work on my own project...the work flooded in. So I struck a deal with my friend to begin the body work and Id pay them from my side work.
All in all it went well... that is until my side work became a little sparse.
So after running low on a car budget, I brought the car back home.

Here is where the story pics up more recently. I was introduced to a guy (now a good friend) via facebook for his mutual interest in cars bikes, etc. He has been a body man for many years, and via facebook we got to know each other but had never met over the course of two years. He is in Hagerstown Md. I am down south in Virginia Beach, Va.

So, he recently decided to go off on his own venture to start his own shop for his paint and body skills. He had mentioned to me over the course of two years to bring the car to him and he would gladly do the work. Once he found I had the car back due to lack of funds, he began questioning me about bringing the car to him.
Because funds have always been an issue with the car I quickly dismissed the request and politely let him know, Id love to, but I don't have the cash for his quality of work.

Long story short I have been given an offer I couldn't refuse and I dragged the car up to Hagerstown last Saturday!

This leads me to the pictures I have included below. I realized very abruptly, that I needed to get a handful of items finished before I could rightly ask him to make the car look good.

So I began this mod to the bumper some time ago, and it then hung on the wall until last Thursday. I needed to make housings for the lights, and while I was at it... I shaved the bumper bolts to clean it up a bit further.

Here is to some progress!