I'll post a picture after I wash it tomorrow as it's pretty dirty. It's still far from perfect, and has some new issues from the shops that didn't treat it right, but I'll keep going on it.
To summarize, back in March of 2019, the 57 had an engine fire. Took it to an initial shop and they simply took my money and parked it out back, never to touch it again. Finally towed it away and took it to a high end shop, but then insurance wouldn't pay their higher rate. Took it to another small shop and the guy did get the engine out and sent off for rebuild, but could never get it going again once he got it back and started parking it out in the rain as well.
Finally found a place that would take it in and the guy got it running. It's still within the first 50 miles of the engine rebuild, so maybe some of the weirdness is due to that - I've never had an engine rebuilt to know if they work perfect straight from the shop or if they need to be broken in.
Currently the car will fire right up and seems to be running well, but the moment I put it in reverse, it stalls. I have to give it at least 3 or 4 minutes to warm up before I can attempt to back it out of the garage. And then it's not quite as smooth as I had hoped.
Anyway, here's all that's been done to it:
- Engine rebuild
- Transmission rebuild
- Distributor rebuild
- Original Carb rebuild
- New gas tank, fuel line, fuel pump
- Hood repainted - looks bad, will likely need redone
- some new rust bubbles starting to form in paint
- water damage on back driver side internal door panel
- speedo cable broke
- newly chromed bumpers have a few rusty edges from sitting in rain
