[Pinballer]

It's finally time. I'm gonna do this even though it will be a long and arduous task. Hope you're not expecting instant gratification, because with the few hours of free time I get to work on this car, this will take every bit of about two years.
I'm fairly new to this forum, but have watched it closely since July of 2015. I always had a part of me that thought I could be competitive in the Class car arena, and I guess it's time to find out. It was in September of '15 that I finally was pushed over the edge after talking with some local Stocker racers I knew from the past, and some others who were recently racing Stock at the St. Louis divisional and supported the dream of mine. Everyone tells me I'm crazy, but yet they tell me to go ahead and do it! What do they know that I don't???
So here we go...

This build will be a very systematic approach. Most of it will be along the lines of the Dime Rocket builds (which I absolutely love!), and its about the only way I can even do this project. My intention is to use the sideline money I get from repairing old pinballs for people and investing (some might call it wasting) the proceeds back into this race car. This keeps the family money separate. Meanwhile I have a real job at a NAPA store which keeps me tied up for 45 hours a week for 2.5 more years until I can retire. But---it also has the supreme benefit of buying all my parts at store cost. It's all a delicate balance but I'll handle it.

I must admit I've been working on the car since early October, but I'll start at the beginning. We'll eventually get caught up and current.
After a lot of thought, perusing the Classification guides site on here endlessly, (THANK YOU DWIGHT! ) and looking over what AMC cars I already had that were suitable, because everyone who knows me realizes that's the only brand I identify with, I decided on this one: a 1979 AMC AMX running a 258 6 cylinder. This car which is the Spirit model and will have to have the AMX package added to it, uses a 2 bbl carb, and I've got enough pieces here from my 30 years of driving, racing, and collecting these cars to do nearly anything I'd really need. There's a half acre of old AMC's out back...

Not much to look at now after sitting around forever bleaching the paint off it, but its complete and running, and I had a little ancient race history of racing it in Street class back in the early 2000's at Coles County Dragway to look back on. It was absolutely bone stock clear down to the emission stuff and air pump, had 110,000 miles on it, and it ran a best of 11.10 in the 8th mile with my 210 lb butt in the seat.