The car was bought new at Thein Motors in Clarence Iowa. The build date of the car is September 27, 1972 and my dad probably took delivery in October.

He said that when the car arrived, there were a couple problems. One of the turn signal light lenses was broken and my dad didn't order the car with the side stripes. He liked the look of them but didn't want to pay extra for them. The dealership changed out the broken lense and took some money off the top for the stripes.

The car has all the heavy duty components of the Rallye pakage including 8 3/4 rear with rear swaybar, rallye hood, and rallye dash. Dad bought the car for daily transportation so fuel milliage was an issue. That's why he went with the 318/904 instead of the 340. Hindsite is 20/20 however. Dad said that he put over 30,000 miles on the car within the first year. The car was parked sometime in the mid 80's and spent the next ten years in one corner of the garage with the hood open. Right now the car shows 96,000 miles.