Some not so depressing pictures now...
This was the '79 before the accident... pictures aren't that good tho...
I mention the double pin stripe on the '77-'79 cars alot... this is what I am referring to... factory pin stripe is from the hood to the rear of the car... well, when the left rear door was repainted (such an awesome match) cause of some surface rust... the guy re-pinstriped the car, with a thicker/darker stripe (tape) and I really liked it.
Well these cars have an awesome body line that ends half way in the door (not really so on the '80's style) and the car never looked right to me... and I saw one on ebay with the double pin stripe and had to try it.... MAN what a difference! Fromt he fender half way to the door... it was just awesome... honest to say, it totally changed the look for me and made me really like the '79 style all over again.
I was always getting spare parts for my cars, of those spare parts are the turn signal lights from a '77 which were clear, instead of amber (still have em) I was gonna try putting those in, with the silverstar blubs that look blue but light up amber.... never got around to it tho.
I've always liked the bumper grilles on this generation, they are functional too, with little cowling inside directing air to the lower portion of the radiator. Personally of the '77-'79 years, the '79 is my favorite... that grille deisgn being one of the reasons, as well as the '79 steering wheel and the '78/'79 tail lights... tho '79 did gain the ugly lighter burl wood interior trim (which I swapped out on mine)
Also, factory hood ornament was just a big crest... I didn't like it, so on ebay I found a NOS 80's Brougham hood ornamnet, same base, but with the wreath, and super shiney.... made a huge improvement IMO.
another, better picture of the car.
Heh, this is when I hard wired my radar detector into the car, it was out of the way, but in a handy spot, and would turn on/off with the ignition... one of my little mods I was really happy with... and because of the tint on the top of the windsheild, you coudln't see a thing from outside... I still have that tho, it wasn't in the car when it was stolen.
random picture.. I made some chicken patty sandwhichs... heh, that is a spare chrome hood ornament I bought for the Coupe on ebay (accidently bought 2 at the same time) and that '79 Coupe DeVille low rider thing... still have that... I bought that in November of '05 at Walmart, I saw it in the store and really missed my '79 (it was in NY, I got it my Christmas break of '05 and drove it to FL) so I figured it would hold me over.
Dunno what I was doing here... but... that was my kitchen in my Clearwater apartment... small, but got the job done... atleast it had counter space, a dishwasher and a garbadge disposal.
That dash pad... I had a bad habbit of scouring the junkyard for parts for my car... not that I need now, but that I would need in the future... I mean everything, I would just think to myself "what is someone someone restoring, say, a '68 GTO really want, but is hard or expensive to find?" and I would snag it... well, of those things, was a mint upper dash pad! They aways go bad in daily driver cars, and at the junkyard was a car with the same color interior (Sedan tho
) so I snagged the dash pad, knowing that one day I would need it.
It's still in my closet now... yes, I moved a dashpad from FL to GA for a car I no longer have... I dunno... maybe one day....
Ahhh yes, the great rain... man, what a bunch of rain... my aparment was right in the middle of the complex, and the entire Souther side was flooded... this is when I, basically hit a speed bump too fast, at the same time a pickup was oncoming, sending a wave of water over the hood of the Coupe, and I hydrolocked the 4.9... she woudl't turn over at all... even with all 4 front spark plugs removed (the easy ones) it still woudln't budge... Once all 8 were pulled, she turned over, blew out all the water, spark plugs when back in, I sucked the pool of water out of the intake manifold and she fired right up and was fine
There she is