Sometimes you are in the right place at the right time.
A new guy posted on one of the H-body pages a coupe spoiler for sale. Two of my buddies tagged me on it immediately and I bought a moment later. He had it posted on eBay with a "Buy It Now" option for $250. I have been hunting for one of these for about 2-years and have not seen one for sale at a reasonable price in that time. Actually, I have ONLY seen one for sale and no way was I going to pay $1,000 for it!
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I found out he was in the process of parting out a 1978 Sunbird Formula coupe and he also had the valance. Boom. Another score! I have one for the hatchback that I was able to save but these are NEVER seen for sale so I had to buy it.
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The original plan was to build my red car into a Formula clone. Now I have the parts to do that. Who cares that this is a 76 and the Formula arrived in 77? Who cares that they didn't have vinyl tops or formal windows? My rough sketch looks cool!
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I need to get back into the garage to keep rolling on Project Phoenix! I did manage to do a bit of sanding today but it was the first time I touched the car in a couple of weeks. The wife has me working on some other projects so my pace has been slowed. The weather is starting to get crappy too which isn't helping. Maybe the next project should be to build my shed/garage addition so I can get the furnace in there.