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Old Nov 15, 2012 | 08:48 PM
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After a lot of thought and consideration I've decided to crush my trans am and start over with a better donor... I'm picking up a mint 98 v6 silver auto tomorrow evening to put my motor in. Lot cheaper to do that instead of restoring my 95 as well as the 98 has a clean and clear title.

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instead of crushing the car what would you want for it? what is wrong with it?
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Old Nov 16, 2012 | 05:36 AM
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It's a pos, 3 bad paintjobs in its life and was totaled by being t boned in the passenger quarter panel/door. Was fixed and looked good when i bought it then one day the bondo fell off :/ its not worth its weight in scrap.
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Old Nov 17, 2012 | 06:13 AM
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Unfortunately the 98 I picked up was far from mint like they guy said... But I got him down to 950. And cost me $160 in fuel 12$ in toll fees, $25 to rent a trailer, and a trip to the ghetto :/ pics when the sun comes up.
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Old Nov 17, 2012 | 06:17 AM
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Sorry to hear that it wasnt what he said...the ghetto is a wonderful place ,,can tell you how many time i went and looked a Grand Nationals here in Chicago ...only to find a pimped out dubeed regal with a GrandNational emblem on the dash......fuckn xxxxxxx
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Old Nov 17, 2012 | 07:50 AM
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It looks as if he done donuts through a barbwire fence lol but only dents are drivers headlight door and a few hail dents on the hood, car had ashes all over in it, smelled like weed, console looks as if he dumped a route 44 drink in it and closed the lid, hole in the block I'm guessing. it had a major rod knock and a huge oil trail down the street onto the trailer. His woman was wearing pink leopard skin tight leather pants. My wife was not impressed, but it only took me 5 minutes to get it chained down and the hell out of there!
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Dang hope a got 'em cheap.
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Progress will start this afternoon shouldn't take me long to drop the v6
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Not a bad day, quite a bit of progress made! Pics at a later time, I don't have time to upload them all onto photobucket and post them right now... But tomorrow about all that is left to do it drop the k member out.
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Hooray for the ghetto! Haha. Wouldnt happen to have a nice pair of seat from either car would you?
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Yes sir I do. Full set.
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For so.e reason I can't get on photobucket from my phone to post pics, I started again today at 4:15 and at 5:45 called it a night when the engine and tranny were laying on the ground.
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Sorry to hear that it wasnt what he said...the ghetto is a wonderful place ,,can tell you how many time i went and looked a Grand Nationals here in Chicago ...only to find a pimped out dubeed regal with a GrandNational emblem on the dash......fuckn xxxxxxx

how close are you in chicago ???
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Got the 6.0 pulled out of the 95 and moved over to the other car, gonna start with the wiring tomorrow... Merv if your reading this... What do I need to do to convert my harness from being ready to swap into the 95 to swap into the 98?
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Harness is going back to my buddy in Nebraska to change it from a 95 to a 98 along with the v6 harness today.
Does anyone know how to post pics from photobucket mobile?

While digging around in the car I found the original window sticker, and the factory build sheet. Thought that was a pretty neat find.

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In photobucket mobile if you pull up the pic, hit your menu button and in the pop up window you select view links and just copy and paste like normal.
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Thanks Verz... I'll try that
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Just realized this car doesn't have rear defrost!
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Engine that's going in

Engine that came out, missing 3 cylinders... 6cyl running on 5.

New engine coming home ready to go in (minus harness)
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