Hey all, I've been lurking here for awhile so bout time I introduce us :)
I was on the hunt for a summer toy/project, and was actually looking at drop top mustangs as I owned a 02 GT and really liked it. But on a Saturday morning in late May on my way to work I spotted her on the way to work, less than a mile from my house. She was half covered with a tarp, with a for sale sign... so I pulled over and took a quick look, $1500 the sign read. She was super dirty and rough looking, but pretty strait, 142K and appeared to be all there.
I called the guy from work and he told me he had picked it up over a year ago as a project from a guy at work and it had sat in his garage as is since, he said show up with $900 and its yours. OK so my last experience with E-30's was in the 80's when I was working in body shops putting quarter panels on these things, so other than that I basically knew nothing about them.
Quick search on the net and found parts to be readily available and a pretty large community that is into them. So i went there after work, basically it was driven till it couldn't be anymore. Leaking rad, broken shock mount, interment fuel pump etc. etc.
As I was looking at it the PO's 10 year old son was doing flips into and out of the interior and I thought to myself that if I want this I better get it out of here now! So on a leap of faith I paid him ( and promised not to return it under the lemon law, he was sooo worried about that) and took it home..
Fast forward 5 months and 10K miles later... I fell in love with this thing! New radiator, water pump etc, timing belt, valve adjustment tune-up and things. Somewhere in the past the car drove over something large, so I replaced the suck welded oil pan and the fogs. Replaced the exhaust front to back, new cat and Scorpion cat-back.
I started following this forum after the Bav auto show in Oct.(someone there gave me a heads up about it), have read 100's of threads and really gotten a feel for what I like and don't. You guys have helped me tons with all the info on here and am now a daily reader.
That being said over the last few weeks the H&R sports/Bilsteins went in, new control arms and Treehouse cabs. Re-painted the trim, including shadow lining it. Next up is the diving boards, ugly ass fogs and valance, I'm working on acquiring the plastic bumper set up now as I plan on spraying it this winter. And after studying 100's of cars on here I've asked Santa for Ronal LS's. Anyway, super psyched I came across this car and this forum.
Thanks, Chris
I was on the hunt for a summer toy/project, and was actually looking at drop top mustangs as I owned a 02 GT and really liked it. But on a Saturday morning in late May on my way to work I spotted her on the way to work, less than a mile from my house. She was half covered with a tarp, with a for sale sign... so I pulled over and took a quick look, $1500 the sign read. She was super dirty and rough looking, but pretty strait, 142K and appeared to be all there.
I called the guy from work and he told me he had picked it up over a year ago as a project from a guy at work and it had sat in his garage as is since, he said show up with $900 and its yours. OK so my last experience with E-30's was in the 80's when I was working in body shops putting quarter panels on these things, so other than that I basically knew nothing about them.
Quick search on the net and found parts to be readily available and a pretty large community that is into them. So i went there after work, basically it was driven till it couldn't be anymore. Leaking rad, broken shock mount, interment fuel pump etc. etc.
As I was looking at it the PO's 10 year old son was doing flips into and out of the interior and I thought to myself that if I want this I better get it out of here now! So on a leap of faith I paid him ( and promised not to return it under the lemon law, he was sooo worried about that) and took it home..
Fast forward 5 months and 10K miles later... I fell in love with this thing! New radiator, water pump etc, timing belt, valve adjustment tune-up and things. Somewhere in the past the car drove over something large, so I replaced the suck welded oil pan and the fogs. Replaced the exhaust front to back, new cat and Scorpion cat-back.
I started following this forum after the Bav auto show in Oct.(someone there gave me a heads up about it), have read 100's of threads and really gotten a feel for what I like and don't. You guys have helped me tons with all the info on here and am now a daily reader.
That being said over the last few weeks the H&R sports/Bilsteins went in, new control arms and Treehouse cabs. Re-painted the trim, including shadow lining it. Next up is the diving boards, ugly ass fogs and valance, I'm working on acquiring the plastic bumper set up now as I plan on spraying it this winter. And after studying 100's of cars on here I've asked Santa for Ronal LS's. Anyway, super psyched I came across this car and this forum.
Thanks, Chris
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