Well, here goes... for the first time in over 10 years, my car is home (within a mile of me anyway as opposed to 90 minutes away), I can tinker on her from time to time, and anxiously await the new garage that will get built this year so I can actually move her onto "my" property once and for all.
At little history for those that don't know. I bought this car on Nov 5, 1985 - my senior year of highschool - after wrecking my other V8 Monza TC coupe while skipping school because I didn't want to attend the filming of the movie Hoosiers to be an extra. (long story) Twenty-nine years, thousands of fun miles and a nasty divorce later, I am "finally" back to being able to restore her 'again', but this time she doesn't have to be a daily driver. I can build her the way I want, and take my time and do it right. I've also spent the last 20 years amassing quite a collection of NOS parts for her. In fact, I'd forgotten how much I had until I went back to my Dad's garage recently and took pics of them for this project journal. At some point, I'll do a full inventory, of not only the NOS stuff, but the other parts I have that could just about build two more Monza hatchbacks from scratch.
But first.... the pics.
These were taken June 28th, 2014. This was the first time my Spyder had seen daylight in, I'm guessing, 12-13 years. It felt soooo good to get her out in the open to take a look at her again and not have to squeeze around her in that small, dark garage. It also revealed just how tired she'd gotten in all that time. Take a look for yourself - it's actually embarrassing for me to post these.
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