Hello - We found the main site a few years ago when looking at buying our first T/A. It was a lot of help then and we're happy to see the forum now (don't know how we missed it before!).
We bought "BIGBRRD" from its original owner in the fall of '04 and drove it straight to a storage facility so didn't get to enjoy the car until the spring of '05. Found then out it needed a lot more TLC than we first thought. Rebuilt both the front and rear suspension, replaced the entire exhaust system, and had the radiator rebuilt.
Then we decided to have the "Minnesota Cancer" looked into. Took the car to a body shop in June of '06 for what we thought would be a 3 month project. But it is STILL THERE...!!! One thing led to another and in the process the 400 got pulled and spent the winter of '06 in our garage getting partiially torn down, throughly scrubbed, repainted, reassembled, and put back in the car last summer. It is getting close to being repainted now and hope to have it all put back together in time for the CarCraft Summer Nats in St. Paul this coming July. (keeping fingers crossed on that...!!!)
btw - "BIGBRRD" is a '78 with the Pontiac 400ci, 4 speed manual, Hurst t-tops, and gold snowflakes. Originally Starlight Black with the black velour interior we're keeping the interior the same but going with an even blacker black (if that's possible) on the exterior.
Looking forward to getting it back on the road again...!!!
Patty and Jim
