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New to the nest
Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 11:27 pm
by gb2 ssp

Hello everyone. I was at Mopars at the valley and met a nice couple. They were Gary and Pam out of Massachusetts and they brought their 71 wing cars. I brought my 71 SSP and they took time to come over and look at it even though it's unrestored. Gary informed me of the nest so here I am. For about 4 years I've owned a 71 SSP. I sort of rescued it as it had been parked outside for many years along side a garage. I wasn't sure about it at first. The weeds were through the floors and steering wheel as it sat with no front wheels. Even though I'm no expert on these cars I thought the options were slightly rare. It has a factory powered sunroof, power windows, power disc brakes, and bucket interior. Maybe some of those options are standard for the SSP. I don't know. At least the color combo is one I haven't seen. It's GB2 with a full white vinyl top. So after brakes, rotors, fresh gas, and tune up parts the 318 seems to run like it should. I have little to no computer skills but will post pictures soon. Thank you for your interest, Darrell
Re: New to the nest
Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 1:28 am
by Eric
Welcome to the Nest! Sounds like a cool car. The sunroof option is fairly rare and you do not see a lot of these cars painted GB2. We love to see pictures around here!
Re: New to the nest
Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 5:37 am
by 71rm23
Hi Darrel,
Glad you finally made it over to the 'Nest. I think you remember me--Fellow Sunroof enthusiast. Met you at Carlisle a few years back. I had the 71 GTX FJ6 sunroof 4-spd car. We talked at some length. Stay in touch good stuff on this site when you start on the Satellite!
Jeff
Re: New to the nest
Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 8:05 am
by 71_bronze_gtx
Welcome, Darrell.
Lot's of helpful people and info here - just ask away.
Of the features you mentioned, the only one that's standard for SSP is bucket seats.
Here's a link to a site with lot's of useful info about such things and more:
http://www.hamtramck-historical.com/index.shtml
now - need photos, need photos, need photos, need photos, need photos, need photos, need photos, ...
-Mark
Re: New to the nest
Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 8:15 am
by bruce
Welcome to the Nest! Your sunroof car sounds cool. Nice save! And yeah, Pam and Gary are good people!

Re: New to the nest
Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 11:27 pm
by sdweatherman
Cool, another sunroof car saved! Just saved one myself, you will have to check it out sometime. Just follow the link:
http://www.roadrunnernest.com/forum/vie ... it=sunroof
Welcome to the Nest!
Scott.
Re: New to the nest
Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 8:11 am
by bruce
Thanks for adding the pics! That's a GREAT color combo on that car.
Re: New to the nest
Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 4:48 pm
by 71Beeper
Welcome to the nest Darrell, that's a beautifull 71 SSP you have there.

Re: New to the nest
Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 8:43 am
by 71GTX
Greetings and welcome to the site!
Re: New to the nest
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 1:02 am
by mopar71
Welcome to the nest!

Re: New to the nest
Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 12:28 pm
by ct71rr
I'm met Gary a few years ago. I bought a gauge cluster from him at his house. Showed me some of his wing cars...awesome! Super nice guy and very helpful.