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Originally Posted by _Richard_
when i was looking for the pics, most of the ones i was finding were clones
must be an original car.. very nice 
.. gf sounds nice too   |
One of my big worries when I bought the car was about keeping it original. The motor had been blown in 1981 and it had sat in a barn ever since. My worry was that if the block had cracked the motor might not be repairable. One of the things that makes these cars valuable is having the original numbers matching motor. I ended up getting it anyway. I figured worst case scenario I would just buy a new motor. It would still look cool, just not be worth as much. In the end the motor was able to be fixed, but it had sat so long they basically had to fully rebuild the motor and trans from the ground up. Every hose, wire, belt and cable in the car was rotted out as well so a lot of work went into the mechanics of it.