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Old Feb 1, 2011 | 11:41 PM
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So I should have my temp dd car sold this weekend and if so I should be able to get the t-56 in my Firebird rebuilt. Car has been down since 2-21-09 and only seen 140 miles. In those miles it went threw 2 engines,1 transmission, and 2 clutches. Nothing like getting bad parts or in the case of the transmission knowing it was bad. But excited as I have a stock piles of new parts to go one which include. Some nice corvette c5 wheels, smoked corners which I bought 1.5 years ago and a ws6 hood and box that I bought almost 2 years ago. Also got an old non adjustable borla muffler that sounds sick ready to go. Its been a long wait but hopefully I will have my baby back in the next month.

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How about some pic's?
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Old Feb 1, 2011 | 11:49 PM
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Will have to get some later. Car is at my parents house in Greenville along with all my parts. Going to snap some of it when I get home. Car has been sitting around and has not had a bath in a long time. I think there is still rubber on the back from the strip when it blew up the first time.
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If you wouldnt have bought all that crap that doesnt help it run ...maybe you would have been driving it by now?? just a thought...
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lol my wife sasys that same thing to me
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Originally Posted by defaultexistence
If you wouldnt have bought all that crap that doesnt help it run ...maybe you would have been driving it by now?? just a thought...
Well I got the hood when the car was having a clutch problem on the rebuilt engine. The smoked tails where bought since I had some ebay bucks that were expiring. The rims were in perfect shape and picked up for $150. Good price for the rims I wanted for the car.
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Old Feb 2, 2011 | 03:31 PM
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Originally Posted by defaultexistence
If you wouldnt have bought all that crap that doesnt help it run ...maybe you would have been driving it by now?? just a thought...
meh cars in general don't involve common sense. how many people on here have dumped $10-15k into a $5,000 car and hopefully the car will be worth what they bought it for if they went to sell it.
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Old Feb 3, 2011 | 09:33 AM
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Originally Posted by myltwon
meh cars in general don't involve common sense. how many people on here have dumped $10-15k into a $5,000 car and hopefully the car will be worth what they bought it for if they went to sell it.
Isn't that the truth!
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Originally Posted by BigD383lt1
Isn't that the truth!
Yeah if I could have gone back 3 years ago and said to I want the car payment for a nice ls2 GTO the answer would have been yes yes and more yes. It would have been payed off by now.....and running
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