The bidding got crazy about an hour before the end of the auction between me and another person and I definitely got carried away a little bit haha but I think I'm good no matter what direction I go (I hope). Turns out one of the bfg's had self destructed from age alone while stored away and unfortunately broken the trunk spoiler leaning up against it. So I ran the DOT date code and that was the beginning of the time capsule type discoveries, the 3 digit code came back as 11-15-1999! So this old gal (or at least her shoes) has been off the road for a very long time I'd imagine. 255 out back and 235 in the front. The steering column was indeed intact, in good shape and still sporting the correct wheel too. Another 90's throwback was the Fairbanks graphics on the aforementioned 700/r4, I had to dig deep to locate the history and call several companies but ended up finding that while the original company was started in the 60's has been sold twice and is now owned by Superior trans parts in Florida, who told me they haven't used these graphics (tiger stripe in particular) since around the late 90's apparently. Fairbanks stuff is regarded as top quality by most who've used them from what I've seen, Fingers crossed. The Hurst locking "security" shifter is another item I'd never seen before from back in the 90's, uses a key to lock the release button so it can't shift out of park. Not valuable but still pretty neat. The ceramic coated (but surface rusted) hooker competition headers don't have any soot in the primary tubes or collectors, I found that odd due to the fact that they were obviously mounted on the engine, that seems very new but at least broken in/used minimaly. Also I had to see inside the rear end for obvious reasons asap, so when I found all the goods still intact and in amazing condition I was relieved. This guy absolutely loved his SS back in the day and its obvious he took good care of it. I'll have more time later to put more up.
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