this is what the car looked like the day it came out of the junkyard it was pulled out of..
a quick back story about the car is the car was owned by someone in the military.. he was
stationed in Hawaii for several yrs with the car after bringing it over from Japan. From Hawaii it went to Southern CA to I think it was Camp Pendleton where it sat for many yrs until the owner died. The car just was left sitting on base, parked. After few yrs of not moving, the govt just had
the car removed by a tow company, where it was taken to their yard. Someone saw the
car a few days later on a pile of other cars getting ready to get crushed. He asked if he
could buy the car as a whole and he had the foresight to buy it that day. This was in roughly in July 2005. I saw the car advertised on the net one nite with a crappy little 1" picture, but called the guy that night and made the deal. He delivered the car to me in Tucson about a month later. I got it running a few months later and then stored it away for a few yrs until about 2010, when after buy a few parts cars, decided to have a shop fix all the rust and paint it for me. He had the car about a yr, and once I got it back, I started restoring some of the interior and putting the car back together slowly between other projects. I had both bumpers rechromed in the process and bought NOS rubbers for them