Quick History

Sorry.

This blog will be a bit ugly until I can make time to stylize this myself.  So mind the template, single picture, 'babby's first internet site' look.  I figured if I don't just start doing this now, I will never get around to it.    

So Let me tell you how and why I got this car.

It always starts with Craigslist.

I saw this online and thought to myself; I've always wanted to learn how to actually do things on cars outside of changing brakes and oil...now is the time.  Time to make a trip to Tahoe.

Turns out, my buddy Bryan and I were heading up to there anyway to try some isolation chamber therapy thingy. It's some hippy thing where you lay by yourself, naked, in a dark enclosed tub of body temperature salt like water.  You float and it literally feels like you are floating in mid air.  So after about an hour of this, you start going insane with no stimuli around you.   I think you are supposed to meet your spirit animal but instead, I met the sensation you get when your bladder is about blow a gasket from that giant Gatorade you finished off before you arrived.....

Anyway, I asked him to do me a solid and help me check out that car from the ad.  He's awesome and we make the adventure.  I meet the guy and he let's me drive this thing around.  I fell in love.  It smells like gas, rumbles when you step on it and talks back to you on occasion.  The decision was made. 

So I open my wallet and nothing.  We make a trip to the ATM and the thing has a limit to 800 bucks. So between me and Bryan's two debit cards, we come up with the moneys.  We come back with a fist full of cash, make the trade and then I drive this death trap back home to Reno.

So there you go, quick story on how the beast came to be.  

In the future

In between posts of what I'm currently breaking on this Beast, I'll post pictures/stories of what I've already done to this thing.  They include:

• Rewiring the engine harness
• Several failed attempts at crimping my own spark plug wires
• Duraspark replacement
• New front and rear suspension
• Brakes calipers, pads, hoses, master cylinder and even custom made brake lines....
• Heater Core destruction!
• Radiator tube explodes and its replacement
• Rewiring more stuff.
• Planned engine rebuild, purchased new engine block, heads, headers, cam, etc etc ettc
• Control arm failure!!!
• Front suspension part II
• and more!

Pictures

Here are pictures of the Beast right after it found a new home.  Right before I discovered all the fun gems of taking over someone else's project.

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Prologue

This is 'The Beast'.  She is a 1972 Ford LTD Brougham with a 429 Big Block inside.  I think I am the 3rd owner?   She has a tow hitch.  Her original steering wheel and column are no where to be found.  The coil is powered by the accessory post.  You can start her while she is in 'Drive'.    She has bucket seats.  I have no idea what is original and what isn't.   

This is me.  Until the day I bought this thing in late 2012, the most I've ever done to a car was change the oil.  Now I'm knee deep into my first engine rebuild.

From here on out, I will document my [many] mistakes and triumphs as I rebuild this ugly boat back to its former glory.  Or whatever vision I end up having for it.

I will also be posting flashbacks as to what I've already done to the car, both on purpose and on accident.  Like the blog states; I have no idea what I'm doing, but I'm learning! 

So stay tuned!