My "new" 72 Javelin SST

Thanks Buster and Mike.

Took the old girl out for a drive today to celebrate her new mufflers and tie rods.  She doesn't look too bad from 20 yards away!

The mufflers worked out well.  The car had some Thrush mufflers that sounded great at idle, but I was always a little too self-conscious driving through the neighborhood about being a nuisance, and it droaned quite a bit on the highway.  It still has the throaty idle, but is much quieter overall... pretty much what I was hoping for.  They're just standard Walker mufflers, and I'm surprised they're as throaty at idle as they are.  I have the same mufflers on my AMX, so I pretty much knew what to expect, but seems like they are a little louder on the Javelin for whatever reason. 

EDIT:  So glad I rebuilt the front suspension.  Between that and the new mufflers it's like driving a new car now.  Forget my previous whining about the rear shocks being too stiff.  Either they've loosened up or (more likely) I've gotten used to them.

Made myself a new trunk divider out of fiber board today, using the old one as a template.  Since fiber board is not very flexible, I scored the top on both sides with a razor knife to give me the same bend as the original cardboard divider, and then lightly painted it with truck bed liner.  

 

I also put some foam weatherstrip between the divider and bulkhead to help seal the trunk from the passenger compartment a bit better, and also put some Roadkill (similar to Dynamat) under the rear seat to help keep exhaust  and road noise inside the car to a minimum. Forgot to take photos of that before I put the rear seat back in.