I'll be driving through Bartlett here in a few moments to my side job (currently only job) out at the Dupage Airport!
The Rolling Meadows cruise has been over at the Rolling Meadows Meijers store parking lot the last few years but they kicked us out because the 500+ cars showing up on a nice night were taking up too much of their huge lot!
This year I've heard it is being moved back to its old location in the abandoned Dominicks parking lot on Kirchoff road in down town Rolling Meadows.
There is a regular group of Mopar guys who attend that cruise, maybe hard to find us lost among the 100 late model Corvettes that show up at that cruise every Friday?
I also attend the cruise in downtown Mt. Prospect many Saturday evenings. Small but mostly vintage cars, very few late model cars there.
Never did hear about that black V code.

Yeah believe that's the same show. There were a ton of Mustangs there when I went. Maybe it was an off night or the Mustang guys happened to be there that night. I'll be sure to check it out this summer or if you happen to remember me shoot me a PM and I'll drive up there in my Cuda unless you guys are there everyweek. Sounds like a great turn out.

As for the V code, it was just east of Meacham Rd but West of the hotel/355. It was actually closer to Meacham. As the story goes it sat there since the late 70's. I went to the house and spoke with him but he had no interest in selling nor trading for a running/driving lesser ebody. Not really sure if he knew much nor cared about codes. It had a cover on it so I never actually saw the VIN. But I was told by 2 seperate and solid sources it was a V code. It's since dissapeared in the last year or two. He had an empty garage so it might of been moved in there. I'll fill you in with some additional details when we chat sometime. BTW I'll be looking forward to seeing your T/A !

I put a lot of groceries in a car identcal to yours when I was in high school. I worked at a local grocery store, and a lady came in every week in a red T/A with a black top and interior. It was an automatic/console car and had a rallye dash. The six pak was off the car, but the folks had it stored in their basement. The car was sold in the early to mid 80's, and I think it went to the northeast somewhere. The lady that drove it was as hot as the car was!

I was a junior in High School in 1978 too and my curiosity is getting to me as to the price you had to pay in 1978.. I'm guessing $1000..

The fat cragers look cool on that thing too..

No T/A's or AARs were for sale around here for $1000 back in '78. I paid $2300 for my car.
Most of the AAR's and T/A's I would spot in Tradin Times were already sold when I called about them. The only other car I looked at when I was looking was a very nice and all stock AAR, red with a black vinyl top and 36,000 miles. The guy wanted $3600 for it, which is more than I had. A few months later I saw his car advertised again and his price was down to $3100. I wonder what became of that AAR.

Hi, I've got a question for you, I noticed on the driveside inner fender were the words VOID, My brother had a 70 Challenger R/T SE with the same VOID stamped in the same place. any idea what that means?...thanks

That is where the green and white emission sticker had been. Apparently when it is peeled off there is a portion left that says void.

I remember filling up my car at the local EZ-GO not long after I bought it, Premium was 75.9.
At the EZ-GO at the other side of town there was a Vanishing Point look-alike white Challenger R/T sitting there for a while with a For Sale sign on it, IIRC it was around $800. It was a 383 4 speed, missing a fender and the aircleaner. It was a little tired looking, but I was sort of interested because the interior was mint and my T/A's seats were ripped up and I wanted the seats out of it to replace the ones in my car.
Some clown from my high school ended up buying it for $600, and not long afterward dropped out of high school. Then I heard from a guy from his neighborhood that this clown's "friends" had smashed the windows out with a baseball bat. I went by his house looking for him to see if he'd sell me the seats, but neither he nor the car was around.

Pretty cool.....

I agree, I had seen some photos of your car in the past and can't wait to see it done. The old school photos with large wheels and tires are awesome.

Joe

I sure hope it gets finished in the next few years, with some luck the body and paint may be finished later this year. Then the real fun begins, trying to put it all together and detailing it!
It was supposed to go in to the media blaster this week, I haven't heard if it is there though.
I bought those Cragars not long after getting the car, I knew T/A's came with 15x7 wheels, so I got a pair that size from the speed shop. Took them over to Firestone to get a couple G60's. They called me a little later and said there was a problem. Something about my new wheels being "positive offset" and not fitting in the wheelwells. They said I could get shackles or air shocks to make the new wheels and tires work.
I went with air shocks. Sometimes I would feel the tires scraping the wheel well lip when I'd hit bumps in the road, then I'd have to head over to the gas station and pump a few more pounds into the airshocks for more clearance!

Brad - I read the whole thread. Glad to see those doors I sold you will help bring back to life such a nice car. I will check in periodically to see the progress.

Great thread.
You might have had to wait a bit but it looks like he does spectacular work.

I was surprised to see this post still was around and hadn't faded away into Moparts history!
Some odds and ends were happening with the project later in '09 into '10 but not a lot.
The car went off to the media blaster in the summer of 2009. Not long after that, a former customer of Scott's, Mike, started working on the front end. Mike's in the Coast Guard and likes doing restoration projects in his free time. The '68 Charger him and Scott restored in the '90's was quite impressive.
In early January, I was talking to Mike on the phone about some details of the front suspension, and he mentioned he'd been by Scott's Shop to have Scott paint the K member. I asked how my car looked after the media blasting and etching primer. Mike told me the car wasn't there. I started to panic, the car went to the media blasters over 6 months earlier and I figured it was back a long time ago.
I talked to Scott, and he said he thought the stripper (Sid) hadn't finished it because I hadn't paid him. WTH, I'd paid him up front.
So Scott checked into it, and found the car was almost finished, he was not happy with Sid. Sid is well known in the area and used by restorers like Scott and Vance Cummins, but he has some serious health issue that is slowly killing him. After Scott got on him, he finished up his work on the car but my car may be the last car he ever does, as he isn't healthy enough to do the work any more. The car finally came back to the shop in February or early March, 8 or 9 months after it went to the strippers!
Over the next few months, Mike finished up the front end work, mounted everything on the restored K member, and the pictures looked great.
I finally got a full time job offer in June, and talked to Scott about coming over to drop off parts as I was going to be sent out to work in North Carolina for the summer and would be unable to get parts to him for a while. The soap opera continued, his wife had hooked up with an old beau she'd reunited with on Facebook, and now they were going through a messy divorce, which put him out of action again for the time. So he told me no hurry to bring over parts!
I got a call in November from Ron Mack, an engine guy whose shop is near Scott's place. He tells me he has my engine and plans to get working on it soon. Of course, I have half the engine stuff at my house, so I told him I'd try to make a trip over there when I was on furlough in late December.
So yesterday I packed a bunch of stuff in my Focus, darn trunklock was froze so I had to pack it all in the front and back seats instead of the trunk! Time for a road trip.

Made decent time to MI, and stopped in Scott's shop. He is back at it full time now that his divorce is final, and my car and a '68 R code 'stang are the only projects he is working on.
My car looked decent after the stripping, there was one area on the floor that looks thin and needs work but everything else is pretty good.

I'd bought some decent fenders 10 years ago, but after stripping the passenger side one showed some repairs from an accident years ago, still should look good after some work.