So ill start the build thread with a story. Some might find it funny, maybe not think there lucks so bad..
So I started out a few months ago. Acquiring parts for a new build project. Find a car in North Dakota, arrange shipping back to Michigan. Buy it. Company backs out end up going with a friend to get it. On easter weekend on the way back in Minnesota hear a grinding noise going thru a parking lot. Bail out to find a dollar bill size hole in the transfer case. No parts anywhere and 10pm at night on a Saturday had to work Monday and we were 800 miles from home we slept a little and woke up to snow. Got the idea to pump the t case full of grease and duck tape the hole shut. So we did, stopping every couple hours and babying it till we got to Michigan. Once we were in Michigan we were running 80+ hoping it was gunna break prior to the bridge if it was going to. Stop in st Ignace to find only the winch and park break holding the car on out for 3 strap's. Put more on and crossed the bridge to make it home.
Fast forward about a month collecting an lq4 and 2wd 4l80e on the cheap. Decide to measure the car for a cage. Pull the seats measure to find that what I wanted for so many years now wasn't going to pan out and after feeling sick to my stomach for a week or so I decided no matter how much I cut and chopped the car wasnt going to be streetable.
Anybody figured out the car I've always wanted, yeah, wasnt a regal. It was in fact a Vega wagon.
So I sold the car.
So I started out a few months ago. Acquiring parts for a new build project. Find a car in North Dakota, arrange shipping back to Michigan. Buy it. Company backs out end up going with a friend to get it. On easter weekend on the way back in Minnesota hear a grinding noise going thru a parking lot. Bail out to find a dollar bill size hole in the transfer case. No parts anywhere and 10pm at night on a Saturday had to work Monday and we were 800 miles from home we slept a little and woke up to snow. Got the idea to pump the t case full of grease and duck tape the hole shut. So we did, stopping every couple hours and babying it till we got to Michigan. Once we were in Michigan we were running 80+ hoping it was gunna break prior to the bridge if it was going to. Stop in st Ignace to find only the winch and park break holding the car on out for 3 strap's. Put more on and crossed the bridge to make it home.
Fast forward about a month collecting an lq4 and 2wd 4l80e on the cheap. Decide to measure the car for a cage. Pull the seats measure to find that what I wanted for so many years now wasn't going to pan out and after feeling sick to my stomach for a week or so I decided no matter how much I cut and chopped the car wasnt going to be streetable.
Anybody figured out the car I've always wanted, yeah, wasnt a regal. It was in fact a Vega wagon.
So I sold the car.