I had a bit of a dilemma when I bought this kit quite a while back. Did I want to make an exact replica of my old car, or do it up like I always wanted mine to look? I finally settled on a combination of the two, and I think it turned out alright. Thanks to railroad for posting his Matador in Factory Stock, as that spurred me to open the box mine was in, and finally get it done. I'd always wanted one of these cars, and I recall vividly drooling over one that a girl in high school drove, a black ' 76 X. So back in the fall of ' 88, I was cruising down the avenue not too terribly far from where I grew up, and a car sitting in the back yard on one of the side streets caught my eye. I circled the block and went down the back lane, and there it was. A ' 75 Matador X, faded orange with a white stripe. I cautiously opened up their back gate (after whistling to check if there was a dog, lol!), and went and peeked at the car. Hmmmm, buckets and console, no rust at all. So I knocked on the back door, and asked the lady who answered if that car in their yard was for sale. She said she and her husband had been talking about selling it, as it had been sitting for about a year. I asked how much, and she said I could have it for two hundred dollars. Well for that price, I didn't even care if it had an engine! I pulled the $$ out of my wallet, went and grabbed the serial # off the dash for the bill of sale, and told her I'd be back the following Saturday. Once I got it in to my Aunt Catherines back yard, where I'd arranged to store it 'til spring, I was able to look it over better. It had a 360 two barrel, single exhaust, and one busted rear spring. I fired it up, and it was banging on all eight cylinders, and just needed a tune up. I was pretty pleased, needless to say.
Regards,
sfd
Source: http://cs.scaleautomag.com/SCACS/forums/thread/1013698.aspx
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