Anything surprise you on your car?

[jimynick]

Anything surprise me on my car? You mean other than the large expenses and time invested? Maybe the fact that after I cut the 1/4 panels off I found that there was none, zero, nada paint nor primer inside the upr. 1/4 panels- bare steel. The photo'd and measured 3/4'' difference in floor height between the main trunk floor and the rt trunk drop off panel, where the misalignment was such that some of the spot welds holding the two together were only half circles because that's all the overlap the two panels had?! Build quality out the window. Much of that gets put on the shelf once I fire that Lunati roller cammed stroker up and she's my sweet baby once again. 

[blown motor]

I bought 74 Challenger in 2012. The manual was in the glove box and in it was the name of the original owner. I'm the fourth. So I tracked down his phone number, luckily he still lived in the same place, and called him to see what he could tell me about the car and see if he had any old documentation. A few weeks later I get an envelope from him with the receipt for the down payment, the first oil change and a couple other things. The surprise came a few months later when I get another envelope with a few insurance notices from the late 70s and the cancelled cheques he paid with. I also got his bank loan documents. Cool stuff to go with the car.

[screamindriver]

Surprise ??    OK...Probably the melted M&Ms and a cat turd in the heater box...lol..Had to ask the previous owner about that one said the cat used to ride along...

[AlexCphotos]

Original owner of mine took the Challenger T/A logo off the rear wing and replaced it with one off a Pontiac with the words "Trans Am" back in 1970 or 71. My dad who bought it with my grandfather in 72 didn't know that wasn't the right one and never fixed it. Now that I have the car, I'm going through it to fix minor things so its road worthy.
This always bothered me so shortly after the car was passed down to me I took that GM nonsense off and have the correct one waiting to go on once I figure out how to get the ghost of the old logo to not be there.

[torredcuda]

Bought my Barracuda in 1982, originally a 318, 904 but had a `72 340 with a 727 behind it. About six months after I bought it a couple of the rods decided to no longer be friends with the crankshaft. When I tore it down, which I am pretty sure was the first time it had ever been apart, I was surprised to find it had a steel crank and 2.02" intake valves in the J heads. I didn`t know a lot about Mopars and was still learning but thought all `72 340s were cast crank crank and 1.88" valve engines, I guess early ones got the better leftover parts installed.