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Originally Posted by Vortecpro
I lived at 43 and Bell in the 80s and was all over Glendale, never seen that car.
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Thanks for the reply,
To date I've had no luck finding any history on the car. I'll give a few more details.
I do know someone enjoyed the heck out of it before it was permanently parked in the 80's because it had just over 100k miles on it and both driver side door hinges were replaced with new GM hinges that still had the GM stickers on them when I found the car. Hinges were never painted and just put on as bought. So someone was getting in and out of it a lot, not to mention the driver seat bolster has seen better days, and the driver side door panel is worn on the top from someone resting their arm up there all the time. Someone drove this car a lot. Probably short trips getting in and out a lot.
I don't believe it spent much time in a garage before it's long hibernation either, since as you can see from the pics even the primer applied was burnt off, leading me to also believe that was done years before the 1980's when the car was permanently parked inside, and it spent a lot of time in the sunshine. All the weather strip on the car was also original and crystalized, hard as a rock, as well as the dash pad cracked, original carpet faded, original tail lights faded, all indications to me the car spent a lot of time in the sun somewhere here in the desert Southwest. The undercarriage is just as clean with original Frost Green paint overspray on the floors and around the rear wheel well areas, grey primer left around the gas tank area after blackout on the floors were applied etc....just as the factory did it. All the front suspension is original and loaded with factory paint markings.
With the miles on it, I tend to believe all of, or at least the vast majority of the mileage was accumulated in a nice dry climate out here. Even though the car was built in Norwood I find it hard to believe it spent much, if any time at all back East.
There are some other oddity things I was told by the previous owner and I came to realize later as I tore into the car to likely be true. Things that might joggle someone's memory of the car. Maybe I'll talk about that stuff later if this gets any more interest.