I bought the car in 1978 with no motor or transmission for $200.00, and made it my high school hot rod with a 383,graduated in 1979 & decided to do it right.I spent the next 2 years re doing the car and had it ready for paint only to come out one morning to find it stripped,sold it for $800.00. 15 yrs later my brother in AZ calls me and tells ne "my cuda " was for sell from the same guy I sold it to for 800.00. I went to AZ & bought it back for $1400.00 it was a mess, used it for 5 yrs as a daily driver & work truck, hauling 2x4's bricks etc.Then decided it was time to really build it,it took weeks to strip the entire car to metal.This time it took just a little over 2 1/2 years to complete all the work was done in my garage,my brother Harold & myself did all the body work & paint as well. It has swivel fiberglass buckey seats,aluminum dash w/Auotmeter guages, 3.55 sure grip rearend.The coolest thing about this is I got my car back,when it was stripped I was dating my kids's mom, now they are 18 & 20 yrs old and have both driven the car, my son is just chomping at the bit for his own muscle car,he just turned 18.It did pretty good at the strip until I took out the # 3 & 4 rod bearings,I have not ran this motor yet.The heads are aluminum Edelbrock's ported & polished 11.1 compression, the tunnel ram is a Weiand with dual 450 Holleys, fed by a Holley Blue electric fuel pump, it gets driven alot (thats why I built it) and has done very well a the local cars shows.