thats funny brian, my first 68 camaro was about the same thing, kinda slapped together, had about 6 tons of bondo through the rear quarters but looked damn good!
it to had a high compresssion motor, had to run 93 in it all the time, it was nasty fast and I was only 19 years old beating some old school street racers more than once. I went to turn it off one day and it ran on, cracked a piston. I tore it down in my parents driveway and put 8 used pistons in it my buddy had, no cylinder hone, not very clean but it fired up and ran like a top for another 2 years (with less timing!) till I sold it cause I was broke and needed to pay bills! I sold it to a friend of mine, she was 19 at the time, her dad put a smaller cam in it and installed power steering. She owned the car for 2 weeks, stopped at a gas station, filled up, she had stepped on some oil in the lot, long story short someone pulled out in front of her, she stomped on the brake and her foot slipped off hitting the gas and flooring the car, it did a 180 in the street, took out a street sign, a fire hydraunt and then crashed into the side of a laundromat. Here is a pic if the final damage...
