I bought This car about 10 years ago when I was a broke ass college student. I sold off my Nintendo game collection to buy it and drove it home about four hours with an antifreeze leak and a hole in the floor.
Over several years as I gathered money and worked a little bit of overtime to buy new parts, me and my dad would go out and work on it. I remember one time I worked an entire 12 hour shift of overtime just to buy tail light lenses. I was a raging alcoholic at the time and after buying the car I became sober for seven months and it was the best seven months I had experienced in a long time. We replaced the front fenders, the hood, the rear valance panel, shocks, and springs and a heater core. We changed the oil, the spark plugs, the points and condenser system, the radiator and fan shroud. Door handles and new mirrors. I think I bought this car for $1200 and drove it home risking my life in 2018 but it was Hella fun.
So for the past seven years, it has been at my brother-in-law‘s house, but he and my sister just got divorced. I was lucky enough that he had a giant pole barn that I could store it in out of the weather. About a month ago, a giant tree came crashing through the pole barn and almost hit the Chevelle. I took this as my sign to bring it home now that me and my wife just bought our house about a year ago that has a nice big shop in the backyard. He hast to get the car out of his pole barn so insurance can come in.
Now that I am almost one year sober again, I am so excited to have it back, and I feel a lot of shame and regret for neglecting it all of these years. I am so excited to start working on it again and shining up old pieces or replacing them with new ones. I am so excited to be sober and a good husband and father and I am appreciative of my life again. And I make somewhat decent money now, so buying parts and doing things that shouldn’t be such an arduous task.
I just wanted to show all of you my 1970 Chevelle. I was 28 when I bought this car and I am now 36 years old. So it has been with me for going on a decade but apart from me at the same time. I know that it is going to need a lot of work and it is never going to be a showroom car, but it can be a nice driver eventually with enough love and care. Thanks for taking the time to read my post and offer me any suggestions if you have them.