So, here is the story. I purchased this car a few years ago but the progress has been SUPER, SUPER slow. A lot of things seemed to happen shortly after I got this car that has hampered its progress. (Assigned to a ship for two years, a divorce, etc.....) Anyways, I have been SLOWLY chipping away at it. Progress is still slow but it is gaining speed. I will start from the beginning:

Some of you may have seen this car on the Cars in Barns website. It was originally in a dairy barn in Wisconsin with another A12 car. It changed hands a few times since those photos were taken and then it ended up in my garage. Nothing had really changed since those photos were taken.

Another picture as it came out of the barn. I have no information on what happened to the green A12 but I would LOVE to reunite the two cars together at some point.

After seeing it advertised, I did some research and decided to grab it. It just so happened that member 70440+6bbl was a friend of the owner and was a huge help during the transaction. My buddy Sean and I jumped in my '78 W200 with my trailer and headed north to a little above NYC. I had just rebuilt the 440 in the truck and it had less than 300 miles in it. That truck was a beast. 440, Lunati 60303 cam, Edlebrock Performer RPM intake, Holley 750, headers, super minimal exhaust, Dana's with 4:10's..... It was a crazy trip. We got between 6-7 MPG. It didn't matter if the trailer was loaded or not. But.... That truck had an amazing amount of power. It was insane. So, more pictures. This is what I saw when we arrived:

My buddy Dan found those cars, he also sent me photos of the lost maroon hemi car that was found last year about six years ago.

You mentioned the A12 car when you were doing the GTX but we never saw it.

moparpollack: Super cool! I hope I can do this car justice!

I checked the car all out to verify everything and it was legit. It is the "real deal". Here are some photos of us getting it ready for the trip back to Virginia.

Checking it out.

Loading it up.

Filling up the Power Wagon for the trip back. This truck DRANK gasoline at a crazy rate!!!!

Pretty nice man! My 69 R6 bee still has barn dust on it too! My 2011 hemi ram only saw 8-10mpg coming back from Wisconsin with my challenger so don't feel too bad lol

Here we are back in VA. So, let me tell you about the trip in that truck. Did I mention that it was July, the truck had no A/C, no radio, and had super loud dual exhaust with glasspacks that exited right in front of the rear wheels? I am suprised my friend Sean still talks to me. But, that truck had an AMAZING amount of power. We got on I-81 in northern PA and headed south. I put it in fourth gear and I NEVER had to downshift it once. It took those mountians in PA like they were nothing. The engine definitely got broken in on that trip.

So, for the next two years, all I had the time or money to do was to occasionally push it from one part of my property to the other to make space for other priorities.

It did have a pretty sweet trailer hitch, though.

So, here are the good points about the car:

Very nice build sheet and fender tag. Black interior, bench seat, 4 speed, Dana with 4:10's, etc. Typical cool A12 stuff.

Bad points: Missing the original engine and transmission. And, someone back in the day cut out the top portion of the radiator support to make engine removal/installation easier. Oh well. I am not going to loose too much sleep over it.

Fender tag.

Here it is finally getting ready to have some work done to it.

Way back when, someone started to install a 383 HP in the car but never finished it. First order of business was to remove that.

Looks better already.

Tearing it apart.

I bought the F6 car...hauled it home....found another that was in a lot better shape for about the same money as I'd paid for that one so I sold it to Darrel in OKC and last I heard he got divorced and it was on eBay and ended up in Texas...

Sweet project! I'm just looking for a run of the mill 383/4-speed car, then some day a coveted A-12.
Hope to see it look as good as your X!