From Jim O – Hi Guys. It’s Jim O. again with a local barn find. A friend recently told me about a guy that he knew for quite some time. Until recently he had no idea that he hoarded cars. He mentioned he had a Torino Talladega. My friend contacted me to see if I might be interested. Of course I was. I met him this past Saturday at a local swap meet to introduce myself. He agreed to let me look at the car but he wasn’t sure if he wanted to sell it. He had others come and look and offer to buy it, but it never happened for whatever reason. I went over to look Monday night. Fell in love and told him that I would buy it if he decided to sell it. He said he’d think about it. The very next night at a local car show he came up to me and said he’d sell it to me!! I went over last night, paid and picked it up this morning. It had been sitting in his barn/garage for about 10 years. He parked after having some issues with it running reliably and there it sat. I can’t wait to get it back on the road.

So far it is now running and moving under its own power. I’m having it now checked over by my mechanic to make sure it road worthy. The plan is to drive it as is. The only problem is that for some reason the right rear quarter panel has been primered while the rest of the car is original paint, too bad they had to do that. Not sure how to handle that. It’ll be fun in the meantime!

I want to thank Jim for sharing his Torino with us and I hope he will keep us updated with his progress! So does anyone have any ideas for how he can handle the primer issue?