Deep Dive into the Blue #99 Ford Torino's Restoration

pair of on that's cool you see those in a lot of uh a lot of these things either what they have the extended canister or just the the little C the little dinker yeah so when I bought it from Napa with the Nappa replac Park I brought it home and pulled the reservoir pulled it put reservoir on it suddenly now it's racing that's how it works this thing is really freaking cool I so so many questions what what's the what's the backstory on it so it's a 1969 Ford Torino we found it in a barn near our shop in morisville I've been restoring it for I don't know 5 six years I guess the car last ran at metr in the80s a guy named Tommy Crump local guy and uh got it from Bobby wewak and we've been just tracing its history back and putting it back together the best we can oh how um how did you trace it back to being a Dick Trickle car well we've really been trying to work with the Dick Trickle Memorial up in Wisconsin to help us with that and I still need the guys to go look at it but we were doing some work on the paint and it really was you know white yellow purple and then the dark blue so even though we couldn't confirm it we went with what was on the low love layer of the car and we want to call it a a tribute so be it di trickle was an amazing driver one more racist than really anybody I'm proud to be able to bring it out and show it to people this is like the coolest thing ever that you just you found one of these in a barn it's like this stuff you read camera what's the what's the setup in it and everything it's got 420 has real problems that's not happy is it like a a period correct setup and everything it is yeah we can pull it open if you guys want yeah that'd be cool you got the the paint can lid for the headlight covers the real deal we did some of the work at our shop but Bill Ryan Ryan Enterprises did most of the work for us okay and it's a 427 tunnel Port fourspeed top loader that's all the the the period correct stuff like is it the right heads and everything it's in there as as close as it can be yes it is I haven't met bill yet but I know he's real particular about that stuff yeah it is that's so cool we really did he did an amazing job on it we had a buddy of our sleeveless he did all the hand lettering on the car so we just tried to keep it as true to form as we could leave with Bob yeah yep I noticed that hand lettering every time we see one that has it now like oh that one's hand lettered yeah Bob did a great job that is that's awesome so what how…