Looking For Budget Project Car Ideas

[Bill Howell]

No offense Bill but that is complete and utter BS. All of it. The fires were because the first year they had a bad batch of connecting rods because of a subcontractor. After that the problem was solved providing the owner kept up on maintenance just like any other car. If You really want I can get exact specifics of how many burned. The number was surprisingly low. I have had 11 of these and never had a problem. As I posted earlier there were over 367K built. Now please don't tell me you think 180K burned?

I am talking about the fires caused by battery corrosion of fuel lines. The lines were close to the battery or ran directly under the battery. Maybe it was just in Macon, Ga they had the problem and maybe that was because of poor owner maintenance, but I was in the towing business at the time (1986-1996) and it was a regular accurance. I am sure I am overboard with the 1/2 number but hardly ever did other models have the same issue.
Sorry, I am sure you and others loved those cars, and that is cool, but thinking of them as a cool protouring project, I just don't see the masses running to Books-a-million to get the latest copy of PHR.