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Old 01-19-2010, 12:11 PM
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Originally Posted by retardedpenguin
The wiring harness is a mess so that will be fun. None of the lights work right now but it's probably something simple.
Dude, if the wiring has been hacked by God knows how many people with God knows how many thought processes you might want to just look at a painless wiring harness. You can spend weeks tracing down electrical gremlins and still have some stuff that is suspect, or spend a day replacing the harness and know it's all good. As an added bonus you get plastic fuses instead of glass ones that are coroded in place and shoot glass in your eyes when you try to pry them out...
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But nice find just the same!
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Finally got the damn fuel pump working, now the car runs great. Still need to figure out the wiring, hook up the shifter and I should be good to go. I will get a video tomorrow.
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Car drives now, scared as hell to drive it though. But I moved it to the body work bays, if it stops raining I will start stripping it down maybe tomorrow, most likely Wensday. The car will be painted black, same as my Trans Am.

I forgot my camera so no videos, I also have 3 inch flow master exhaust I might put on.
Here are some pics, sure has a cool stance, needs some meats on the back though but I like the looks of the 205's on the front.



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Originally Posted by retardedpenguin
Car drives now, scared as hell to drive it though. But I moved it to the body work bays, if it stops raining I will start stripping it down maybe tomorrow, most likely Wensday. The car will be painted black, same as my Trans Am.

I forgot my camera so no videos, I also have 3 inch flow master exhaust I might put on.
Here are some pics, sure has a cool stance, needs some meats on the back though but I like the looks of the 205's on the front.



i love this car !!! 70-73 !!! ****** great deal !!!
Old 02-08-2010, 08:18 PM
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man your are lucky i cannot afford to do anythign like this i barley can afford to keep my car. I don't even have a garage to store my baby you are one lucky kid but nice find hope it turns out nice
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man your are lucky i cannot afford to do anythign like this i barley can afford to keep my car. I don't even have a garage to store my baby you are one lucky kid but nice find hope it turns out nice
Yeah I have been pretty lucky but remember anyone can do this. I started with nothing and my parents didn't support my car addiction one bit. Everything I have has evolved from the $100 a week I make from working a little over a year. This is my 7th car I bought and my 5th f-body. Just a normal high school kid with a normal job.. The funny part is I make like a 1/3rd of what my friends make a week.

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damn that things in pretty good shape for how much you bought it for
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Damn, wish i didnt have to pay my own insurance when i was young. Wouldve bought something cool like this and restored it as well.
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Keep up the good work man. It's nice working for someone who let's you use the facility isn't it? You are making me want to get off my butt and finish my truck. Need more time & money, just have to make it I guess. Can't wait to see your car painted.
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Originally Posted by retardedpenguin
Yeah I have been pretty lucky but remember anyone can do this. I started with nothing and my parents didn't support my car addiction one bit. Everything I have has evolved from the $100 a week I make from working a little over a year. This is my 7th car I bought and my 5th f-body. Just a normal high school kid with a normal job.. The funny part is I make like a 1/3rd of what my friends make a week.
still ur lucky i dont even get to have a job so it makes everythign i do harder much harder good luck though
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Originally Posted by kingd_202
damn that things in pretty good shape for how much you bought it for
$2500..

I got my antique plates for it today so I just need to insure it and at least get the tail lights working and it will be on the road. I started stripping it too.
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sweet car man. i have to say i'm a bit jealous, as i have been wanting one like that, lol. g/l with the build man

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sweet car man. i have to say i'm a bit jealous, as i have been wanting one like that, lol. g/l with the build man
Well, you might get your chance lol.. Prolly gonna put it up for sale in like a couple weeks. I can't afford to do what I want with this thing but I am gonna take it as far as I can. Just the body work is going to be $1200 and I only have $300. So I am gonna be without a paycheck for 9 weeks which isn't gonna work.

In fact I might not have the body work done. After looking around, I don't think I will make enough of a profit to be worth living on the edge. I am just gonna drive it around a little bit and see if I can't get like $5k for it. I worked backwards like this on the 80 T/A and the car didn't run half the time, but it looked nice lol..
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let me know, i'm interested. i'm not $5k interested, but interested
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Yeah I will let you know lol.. I wanna see how much I can get for it, there are a lot of stupid people out there ya know.
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how much you sellin ?
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I want to get around $4,000 for it..
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Subscribed! I have a 72 Camaro I've owned since 98' been wanting to mess with it but never really had cash, soon I'll get her up and running. Nice find.
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dont sell it. paint it yourself. flat black will work just fine. then throw some welds on it. clean up the engine bay and interior. then hold on to it till u do have the money.



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