No, I have all the original drivetrain, it was a bone stocker with one repaint when I found the car in the 80's. Been the car I've enjoyed progressively making faster ever since while still maintaining an original theme, without cutting or aggressively modifying anything.
Original color is Carolina Blue and was special ordered. It's been Hugger Orange for decades which isn't the original color either but oddly I can probably count on one hand the number of people that bothered to ask if Orange was the original color, after they looked at the tag and saw no paint code.
What's more strange is the amount of people I've had to explain what Carolina Blue is. Even self proclaimed sports fans that are car nuts weren't even aware people were ordering their cars with team colors like this, at least not on this side of the country anyway. I'm sure if I were in the Carolina's people would know right away what it is.
Either way I'm finally blowing the car apart for a repaint, it's due, and it's been a real struggle these last few months trying to decide on a color.
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