Yep. He literally bought it out of a junkyard. After the 57 Chevy, he didn't have a project car for a number of years. In 87 or so he, Sean an I went to Corpus Christi where he bought a basket case Model A Ford. A five window coup if I remember right. It was way beyond our skill level at the time. That project went nowhere. He traded the Model A for a good sized John boat with motor on a trailer. He sold that whole setup and then sometime later bought the Galaxie.
Jared,
I gotta say, it was a quite an ambitious undertaking. With all due respect. He obviously had a vision of how he wanted the car to turnout...and man, did it turnout. 😲 👍 I think he waited years for you and Sean to grow up and help him finish his dream machine. It paid off in the end...😍
Your dad and I are very close in age. However, I regret not having offspring to help me work on my projects, etc. He couldn't have had a better choice of sons.
Guys, thanks for all the interest and feedback. I'm going to respond to everyone's comments when I'm back in front of a keyboard. For now, I'll keep the pictures rolling...
Here's the passenger side on day 1 of Dad's ownership if the car....
We think the car got parked in 1970, probably due to engine trouble. It had just under 100k miles on it if I remember correctly. The cluster that's in the car now is from an XL trim level parts car.
Somewhere around this time Dad sent the car to a media blasting company. They stripped the cockpit, trunk and bottom of the car. Dad got everything in primer and actually put a lot of the car back together....
He got the car running largely thanks to a station wagon he bought and parted out. The wagon was mechanically good and was a sound, running, driving car in the early 90's but it was very, very rusty....
Most all the running gear and suspension, starting out, came from that wagon. The car had a 352 2-V and a cruise-o-matic at this time. No windows, no seats. Just a running shell. Then Dad blew it all back apart to paint the bottom of the body, the firewall, the trunk and the cockpit. Here's a couple of pics from when it came off the frame....
In the pic above, you can see the passenger door has been replaced with a real nice one to get rid of a deep crease. You can see the rest of the crease in the quarter panel. This is where Dad later drilled holes to pull the crease out....
Here are a few pics after the bottom of the car, trunk, cockpit and firewall were painted. She's coming back down onto the chassis for good here....
I'm guessing I'm 18 or 19 here...
From there dad put the car back together and made it run and drive. He put the yellow epoxy on it in probably 95-96 to seal the metal. This pic is circa 2003 when the 14" slots came off and the centerlines went on....
That's my fat *ss putting the left front on. You can see the passenger fender doesn't match the rest of the yellow epoxy. Dad had actually spun the car out on the highway and put the right front corner into the crash wall. The rear slots were off of the Model A that I mentioned earlier and were ancient. After fixing the wreck, new wheels and tires were in order.
Me too! My older brother's 1st car had a set of big and little 15" slots on it way back when. A 76' Monte Carlo, wish I had a photo of it, pretty cool car. Slept 5 comfortably across the hood. lol
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