WolfeMacleod

After a couple weeks of trying to reach her on the phone, I finally got her this morning.
What a nice lady she was, too. I found her through the information in the original maintenance book.
She was a little surprised to get a call from me!

I learned that:
The car, despite what my VIN number says about it's original colour, was originally blue. VIN says yellow originally.
Car did have the timing belt changed, but it was a long time ago. Yep, it's time!
Car was sold because son wanted to drive it....
Car was only sold a year and a half ago.
Car was sold to a SAAB dealer in Portland, OR.

She says she should still have all the work records on the car, and will send them.

Her son is saving his pennies to buy one, she said...

What a nice lady. I'm glad I found her

MTM

That's cool. I have only a little info about my car. I think it was owned in Louisiana and then Texas before I had it shipped here to California. Other than that, it's a mystery.

Tom R.

I spoke to the original owner of my red S2. the sumbich didnt tell me he had the head gasket replaced by a butcher. he did tell me the mileage was original and that he got more on the trade towards his land rover than i paid a dealer. he also told me he had an 84 and the 89 S2 at the same time.

I think if i researched the name philip essner I would find out he was a trach ho that loved to track his red S2 until the head gasket went.

Manning

I hadn't realized the VIN indicated the color at all. I though the code was in the back on the options code tag.

TRWright

We tracked down the original owner of my friends subaru to find out what this horrible smell inside the car was. It was so bad I couldn't ride in the car, and after a few minutes your clothes would smell like that. It was an old lady in CT, and she said she didn't know, but that is why she sold it to this junk dealer. Later the subaru dealership discovered several rats nests and dead rats in the heating/ac system. So much rat urine and dead rats it was amazing. It was cool that I tracked her down though. . . . .

Chris_924s

Cool Wolfe. I met the original owner when he spotted the car in Peoria, Il. (I'm the 2nd titled owner- long story..) He was very glad it went to an enthusiast!

He was driving a 730i..
Now.. hows about some kickass new pickups for my Kramer Strat

WolfeMacleod

I didn't realize it either, untill the dealer asked me what colour the car was after reading them my VIN, and they told me it should be yellow

Kramer eeehhh? Look me up

sharky47

I don't know who the original owner of my "S" was, but I do know who the P.O is - and he's a jackass!

Yabo

I don't think many of us like our P.O.'s! I don't like the last few owners of my car actually,,,, whoever decided putting an early engine in a late car and doing it like a hack, was a jacka**

Tony K

THE PO OF MY CAR IS AN ***!!!!


----just kidding!

WesM951

Tony.. isn't that Pete? lol

I know one of the PO's of my car. After I wrecked it and fixed it he came up to me and thanked me for putting it back together. I'm the 4th owner.

Chris_924s

Dont be rippin on Pete brother...

Fishey

I can't see how the headgasket would blow (EVEN WITH MAJOR ABUSE) on a S2. The only way I can see it blowing a headgasket is if the engine got very hot and warped the head.

Mark944na86

Hey Wolfe!

What sort of pickups would you recommend to upgrade a Gibson reverse Firebird copy? Anyone make good aftermarket p/u's that would fit?

BTW, that's the Firebird copy that drives around with me in my Porsche, of course! (This is a Porsche forum, right? )

-Mark

WolfeMacleod

Depends. Are you using full-sized humbuckers, or the Firebird style mini humbuckers? Most of the FB's I'm familliar with use the Minis, so you're a little limited there, unless you happen to have P-90-shaped routes under those moutning rings, then you're golden.
It also depends on what kind of amp, pedals, and music style you're playing.

Send me pics.