Here's the good, bad and ugly of my new baby. gotta love that shifter...that will be going immediately!

 

Looks great. With a new shifter and some front spoiler work that will be one clean early car.

 

yep, I'm going to get an estimate for the body work soon. I've had it for a week and I've spent most of my time cleaning up the interior. It's been garage kept but I think it was a dusty garage. the shifter is next but I'm still trying to figure out how the PO got that big ball on there. I think he may have glued it on in which case I guess I have to replace the boot and shifter mechanism.

 

It does not have OEM fog lights. That looks odd because they are too small.

 

pretty clean..get the stock foglights and new front valance and the stock shifter and it would look better.. very clean. =D

 

wow. did that guy use a darn bed post **** for the shifter? he must have chubaka hands

 

Is replacing the front valance a matter of finding one off of a same color parts car or will I need to buy a new one and have it painted?

 

Looks like an apple on there!

 

if you can find one used for the same color do it by all means. i tried reshaping my old front valance and it just isnt worth it and it doesnt work..it just pops and bends right back..i got a used one of a 87 parts car at a junk yard(the car was ment i took almost everything) i just got lucky and im repainting my car right now anyways. but i dont recommend buying new it a lot of money, even though its probably worth it. some of us just doesnt have the founds.

but try and find one used first.

 

and make sure you do the timing belt, balance shaft belt, and whatnot asap if you havent already

 

What bodywork?! I must be missing something? It looks great in the pics, far better than a DD needs to be. Are you building a trailer queen?! Save your money for mechanical parts!

 

Very nice car. Great interior, especially the dash, which appears to be in above-average condition.

Enjoy it.

 

Point taken. If you look at the picture of the front right bumper you can see a dent. It isn’t huge and because it is located on the crease it isn’t very noticeable. This car is intended to be a driver but I’m obsessive so I’d like to fix the dent some day. For reference, the car has 72k on the odo.

Mechanically it has a new timing belt, water pump, tires, oil and filter and was inspected a week before I got it. They also checked the brakes and they only have a about 2k miles on them.

Thanks for the complements on it - cheers

 

Regarding the shift ****...maybe the PO was a big lady?

A good clean early.

I agree on the fogs...get some originals.

 

Nice. That is the same color as my 83 944 race car.

And the sport's seats are great. I have them in my 83 SC and they are super comfortable. A little custom redye on the bolster and they will be perfect.