al artimisi's convertible

(More pics, including a "before," below)

The red version is my newly painted 65. It was blue when I bought it in 1998 and needed a lot of work. I still need to put the interior back in, but before I do, I am doing some wiring mods to bring the car up a bit more. I just finished putting in electric door locks, and I have an electronic cruise control I'm going to put in. I also will be changing the headlight circuit to be relay controlled. At the moment, I am making brackets to mount microswitches in place of the upper back panel limit switch in the trunk. The old switch has been a problem for as long as I've owned the car so the
time has come to do away with it. I also put in a  hidden auxiliary switch to open the trunk lid without having to get inside the car.  Along with the paint job, I had all of the outside chrome trim & bumpers rechromed, new floor panels, and anything that looked like rust cut-out andreplaced. The old paint job was pretty bad so the car was completely stripped and epoxy primered before the crimson pearl paint was applied. It has five coats of clear over the red. Though the car runs pretty good right now on the original engine, I have another '65 390 engine that I got out of a junk yard that I am rebuilding with a mild cam and an .040 overbore. I probably won't change the engine until next year since I have so much other work to do to just get the car back on the road. It will be a driver when its done because I am proud to own and show it off. It got a lot of looks on the way home from the body shop.   Glad I found your web site dedicated to the incredible '65. By the way I'm about 12 miles outside of St. Louis just across the Mississippi in Illinois.

Regards,

Al Artimisi