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Message: <blockquote data-quote="glittle75" data-source="post: 473577" data-attributes="member: 8675">well ill keep it going.my grandad and I bought my first car when i was 10. I was young but i knew i wanted a "Bullitt" like the movie. He was a mechanic that had his own shop so it was plausable at the time for him to buy something that needed 6 years worth of work for me to have when i got my liscence. So he went junk-yard hunting. And came up with a '69 fastback. I had been in there for god knows how long, had been rolled over and then dropped off to rot. The best thing was that it had a 351, 4 speed, and all original pieces were intact, not pretty, but intact. so he towed it home and He and I (mostly him) began the rebuild. I would help as i could at that age, handing him tools and whatnot. and over the years it came together. I still remember the day we started it for the first time. We tried to get it running first off. it had no exhuast, just headers at the time, and it sounded awesome. he bent some tubing, welded up so cherry bombs, and called it good. all the drivetrain was complete. not pretty, but running and driveable. then we sourced some TT2's for it, and proceeded on the body. we had to cut the top off, and find another top (which took months) and he welded it all back up. we straightened out the body as good as we could, then sent it in for paint. It came went in the booth as primer, and came out in beautiful cherry red. we ordered new emblem for the outside all around, all correct grill emblem and everything, had grandma recover the seats and cut some carpet for the floorboard. all the door panels and interior trim were missing, but i didnt care, and didnt have the money to get all new parts by the time i got my liscence, so the shop inspected it, and I was driving that all through high school. Grandad passed, and I joined the military so I had my mom take it to a show and put a for sale sign in it, and she had offers within minutes. after i came home from overseas i wanted an sn95, i love the curves. So i found one, it was a single-owner 1998 gt that had 73K on it. Owned by a old lady that bought it as her mid-life crisis vehicle. mostly highway miles, as she lived 30 mins from work and it was all highway. she listed it for 8000, and i walked away with it for $6000, said and done. Bone stock, still had the factory air filter.</blockquote>