[trackbird]

When I walked in the door from a road trip to Cleveland, OH this morning at 3am, I noticed that I had a voicemail on my cell phone. The message was from a friend telling me that he knows of a late 3rd gen (not sure on the year) that is a TPI 350/hardtop (non t-top) car that is for sale. It belongs to a female that he works with (as he said "a girl at work owns it", but I was trying to be more PC than that). It needs pads and rotors and possibly other brake work badly (that's easy....). It had been in a minor accident and he thinks it was all fixed, but not 100% on that. I asked for a price and pictures. I was told $500 to $600 (she bought it new, one owner, 100,000 miles). If it is not destroyed (looks good from 50 feet @ 50 mph), I plan to drag it home.

I should have more info in the next few days, but it looks like I finally found a 3rd gen project. I figure I can ebay off the extras (console, etc) and pay for 1/2 of the car (depending on condition).

I'll let you know as I know more.

[trackbird]

...and double it's value.

I say the same thing about my car after I put gas in it (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/rotf.gif)

I've had a few like that. My $150, '77 Chevy 3/4 ton. 350/automatic. That was a special beast. The front end was so sloppy that a hard bump would make the steering linkage oscillate. To stop it, you either had to stop, or hang onto the wheel and get over 60 mph where centrifugal force would damp it. I simply pulled the power steering pump off, cut the hoses, looped them together and tossed the pump in the bed. That thing was an upper body work out all on its own after that. It was fun to pull a trailer with full manual steering on a power steering box. I think I put about 20,000 miles on that truck.