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Hi to all and thanks very much for providing such an informative forum. I've learned more than I hoped to learn about these wonderful cars.
After 30 years of wishing and 2 years of active searching, I saw this one and had to have it.
It's a 1982 5-speed car with no modifications al all and completely un-molested. These pics were the first time the car has seen sunlight in at least 10 years.
Awesome. Looks like you will eventually be looking at paint, but if you want to improve the looks but put off the big paint job for a while you can get rattle-cans in factory colors from paintscratch.com. Touching up the rub strips would make a big difference.
And so it begins. Well good for you. Just...just, jolly good!
Don't know how old ya are, but I bet ya got just a bit of excitement in yer belly huh? Oh, perhaps you'll try to man up and not show it, like...it's just a car, but you're excited aren't cha? Go ahead, you can say it...we all know!
I found this car in Tacoma on Craigslist. The story I got on it was a previous owner took it to a shop to have the timing belt and water pump done. It was leaking oil, rather spectacularly, I might add, and the repair shop started taking it apart without informing the customer of the parts prices. The guy got mad, had the shop pile 1/3 of the engine in the back of the car, and towed it home. It sat outside a couple of years until the man that I got it from bought it and stored it inside, never touching it.
I went last Saturday to look at it...compared the vin to the title, walked around it once and handed him his asking price of. $1,000.00...and thanked him very much.
My search criteria was pretty broad- I wanted a 5-speed, earlier car. I didn't care about the color combo. as long as it wasn't yellow and did not have the "wacky checkered-flag" interior, I was interested.
I would like to make this into a stock, mechanically sound daily driver to be enjoyed...but I am going to have an absolute blast going through this mechanically and I am looking forward to it. I haven't put a wrench on it, yet as I am waiting for my first shipment of repair information so for now, it's "clean clean clean" the car itself and inventory engine parts. The engine is torn down to the bare heads w/exhaust still attached and down to the water pump on the front.
I'll put up a few more pics in a day or so. Thanks again.
You're going to love it. She's sitting a little high judging from the space between front tire and wheel well. Not surprising after what she's been through. Let the bonding begin.
03-06-2015, 02:28 PM
Look what followed me home...
