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Old 12-23-2007, 04:47 PM
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It was a busy Saturday for me. I woke up at 6:30am and was on the way to RDU before 7am to take a 9:30am flight out of Raleigh and into Philadelphia just before 11am. I then secured the deal & drove this home:



















Its a 100% bone stock automatic '02 Z28. It had 36,xxx miles when I bought it, it clicked 37,000 somewhere in a huge traffic jam on I95 around Baltimore on the way home.
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It has every available option, leather, ttops, 500 watt monsoon w/ 12 disc CD changer, TTops, 3.23 gears, traction control, chrome wheels etc.


It seems to run quite well for a stock automatic. I'm hoping to baseline it at the track and then go from there. It will be my nice weather daily driver, and I'm hoping to do some basic bolt-ons to liven it up a bit. I want to keep it very streetable so nothing crazy. I'm not a fan of those snow-flake style wheels, I'll probably swap them out to something else....
Old 12-23-2007, 04:57 PM
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nice car, love the victory red paint
Old 12-23-2007, 05:03 PM
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Thanks. Its looks orange in the pics, it was starting to get dark and I guess the colors on our camera are a bit off.
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ehh just the lighting. Sometimes my Bright Red (81U paintcode which is the equivalent to the victory red) looked VERY "orangy" at twightlight(dusk)


Slap some wheels, and some HALO headlights with the whisper mod on them. You ll be good to go!


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Old 12-23-2007, 05:36 PM
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haha...nice. last year my car was a early xmas gift to myself too....lol
Old 12-23-2007, 05:55 PM
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Nice car.

My buddy went 12.95 on street tires in his bone stock(ported TB only) 02 Z28 A4
Old 12-23-2007, 07:18 PM
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Nice car.

My buddy went 12.95 on street tires in his bone stock(ported TB only) 02 Z28 A4
Thanks. I don't want to even estimate ETs yet and jinx myself. All I will say is this car 'feels' a LOT faster in stock trim than my '98 Formula did. And it feels faster then the '04 GTO we had that went 13.4 stock as well.

We'll see. I don't think it will hook too well on these street tires though.
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Good find!! Get to moddin! Car looks orange in the sun..
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nice choice man....ls1 *** lol
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Very nice!!! F-Body cars look so lovely!!
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nice find how much did you end up picking her up for
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nice car good buy, merry christmas

Got to love that baltimore traffic
Old 12-25-2007, 09:24 AM
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Looks unmolested and quite clean, merry christmas.
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Atleast you wont have to return it
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It's nice finding our cars at low miles like that. Have fun.
Old 12-25-2007, 11:48 AM
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I paid $11k for it. KBB retail given the mileage is ~ $16,500 and private party is $14,600. I was very thrilled with the price.
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That is an outstanding deal!!! Let the mods begin!!!
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congrats, car looks real clean....
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Car looks really clean, have fun modding!



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