Is there anything worse than a car that isn’t sitting on all four tires? I’d say yes. Then again, that’s coming from the guy who left his wife’s first car up on jackstands for the better part of the last year with most of the suspension gutted out of it. I’m gonna pay for that mistake, I’m sure, but that’s not the point I want to get at. A car that isn’t on all four tires isn’t a car anymore, it’s a sculpture in metal. Automobile…moves by itself. Having the engine out, the transmission out, fine…you can say that you’re in the middle of a rebuild and nobody who views this site can argue with you about that. But when you can’t even push your wreck around the shop or out into the driveway because there’s nothing for the car to sit on but the body or the frame? That’s no good.
With Power Tour 2020 still in his sights, Dylan McCool is cranking away on his 1973 Dodge Challenger rescue project. For a car that sat in the woods for nearly forty years, it’s not as bad as one would expect. And what did need work, has been handled in the garage. So everything, from the rotted framerail to the trunk floor that was dusting away as if Thanos had decided to will it away with the snap of a finger, has been addressed, and what hasn’t been touched yet will be addressed. Today is a monumental day for the E-body, though…it’s the day the rear suspension gets set back on the ground and the Dodge gets it’s first view of sunshine in a bit of time. What’s next? Well, if you ask me, I’d get to work on the “auto” part of the automobile…
