I started my project saying it gets done when it gets done.
I got my 68 Barracuda in 1978 . It was a six auto, and I used the engine for something else. Then I used the trans for a still different project. And the roller moved from place to place with me until finally in ~1996, I untarped it.
That was a sad sad day. In the intervening years, the quarters had rotted and the fenders were none too good either. I sent it to a local bodyshop, and he worked on it every winter, in his spare time, and as I had money. The idea was to roll it out in 98 as a 30th year anniversary. 98 came and went. During those years that the car was in the shop,I worked on the powertrain and such, and then in fall of 99, the body came home. Then I worked feverishly that winter to put it all back together. I was 46 in summer of 99. I had been 25 when I acquired it.
Finally in spring of 2000, it rolled down the hiway for the first time since 1978. My babies started coming in 80, and the last one graduated in 2002. College? UN-un. Even if I hadn't spent the money on the DD/Cuda, I could never have afforded to send even one kid to College, never mind all three. Besides, I had the Cuda first,lol, it was my turn. A man has to have something to call his own. The kids made out just fine. The youngest,my only son took the car to Grad. That day/night will be forever remembered by both of us.
