Ok, here's another one. Apparently I spent too much time freezing my butt off with rounded bolts and cheap tools...
This is my 68 GTX when I bought it in '83. Believe it or not, these pixs make the car look better than it was. It did not have a square foot of sheet metal that was not scratched, dented, rusted or all of the above...including the roof. I bought it during college with it's blown 440 as I saw it still had it's 4 speed and Dana. I had no money (diet= Macaroni & cheese, pop tarts and beer) but I really had not seen a 68 GTX in person prior to this car. Years later, Galen Govier would tell me the "S 6" Mint Green stripes are quite rare...who knew???
Anyway, I had to keep it at a friend's Hog barn in SouthEast Ohio and work on it when our schedules permitted. I swear not one weekend we worked on it was above 20 degrees! We pulled the grenaded 440 and installed a junk yard 440 from a '70 New Yorker (which is still in the car today).
Like HPaxle and Wr70, I clearly recall us working the "lead filled" A-833 4 speed back in, with me working the tailshaft and discovering very cold, dirty and smelly trans lube ooze onto my ear, then down my neck to settle between my shoulder blades for the remainder of the evening...Nice...
Something tells me you guys can relate...