Location: Illiopolis Illinois
Body Style: 2dr hardtop
Vehicle Condition: Restored
Exterior Color: 88 beretta red
Exterior Features: lake pipes,fender skirts,cats eye light covers
Interior Color: red and white tuck and roll
Interior Features: alpine head unit in the factory radio casing
Engine Specs: late 70s 318 rebuilt factory internals, weiand intake ,edelbrock 4 barrel
carb,color match mooneyes valve covers
Drivetrain Specs: 3 speed auto ,old mustang auto shifter on the floor ( its gotta go )
Chassis Specs: factory 14" steel ,coker tire/ remingtion white walls
Vehicle Weight: HEAVY
Amount Driven: Nice Weather
Vehicle History:
Growing up in a "custom car family" my 2 younger brothers and I loved the movie CHRISTINE,so when my dad "Fred" found the car broke down next to a garage,he jumped on the chance to get it. A case of beer and free cable hook up later my mom drove it home,(with my dad following her) with only first gear and a collapsed front suspension.
The car sat around for a few years in the late 80's in the horse pasture behind are house. It wasnt until my mom wanted to buy a 65 chevy 4dr wagon that my dad got quickly motovated to fix up OUR car(mine and my brothers car,that how we saw it).Dad hauled it up to a friends shop in Peoria and did a frame off over the next few years, it was done in the early 90-91.
We spent the next several summers as kids growing up at car shows and steak n shake cruzs.
Im now 26.My father passed away in his sleep of a heart attack late October 2002. Growing up in a custom car family his love for cars has passed on to me,in my teenage years mom and dad did'nt have a lot of time to keep on the cars we owned, including CHRISTINE.
In the weeks time between my dads death and his visitation I brought the car to my garage and did'nt leave until it was detailed tuned and spot less. I wanted it to be parked outside the funeral home for all the hundreds of people that would come too say goodby that evening. And drive my mother in it behind my dad to the cemetary.
This car is part of my family, my dad built it for us kids and its been at my house ever since keeping it clean and tuned up and ready for the show season.
