I've owned this car for exactly three years, I bought it in November of 2008. I found the car while on a walk with my girlfriend a few miles away from our home. The car was parked up against the side of someones garage with expired tabs so I figured I'd knock on the door to see if they were interested in selling it. The interesting part was, my 7th grade math teacher answered the door and was slightly spooked that one of his former students was standing in his doorway. Anyway, he purchased the vehicle from an old lady in 1983 making me the third owner. When I got the car it only had 108,*** miles, and was very well kept. According to the previous owner, although the car sat for awhile, he kept a bin of kitty litter on the floor to keep moisture out, and would regularly start it up, let it idle up to operating temperature, then drive it to and from the gas station as needed. With a jump, it started right up and I drove it home.
...now to the good stuff.
These pictures were taken about 2 hours after I bought the car
Since I've owned the car for three years, I've done a few things.
So far, I've had to replace the radiator w/hoses, tires, alternator, starter, fuel pump, and a few vacuum/fluid lines that were cracked or rusted through.
A friend of mine sold me some 1983 SS rims that he had laying around, so I had them sandblasted and powder coated.
Before
After
I masked off the each rim and painted the black accents myself.
Unfortunately I haven't documented much of the other stuff I've done to the car, but hopefully this project log will give me more incentive to do so.
Other things I've done are tint the windows 35%, painted the bumpers, painted the headlight housing since I couldn't find decent chrome ones that didn't cost an arm and a leg, added flowmaster duel exhaust, 6x9's in the rear along with other new audio equipment, and I built a gauge cluster since I think only two of the six gauges didn't work.
Here are some current pictures I took just a few weeks ago before putting the car away for the winter.
As you can see below, I put a different steering column in because my stock tilt column was plagued with the infamous steering tilt column wiggle 😀 I do plan on putting the stock column and steering wheel in once I rebuild it, but until then, I'll have to rock this POS.
...now to the good stuff.
These pictures were taken about 2 hours after I bought the car
Since I've owned the car for three years, I've done a few things.
So far, I've had to replace the radiator w/hoses, tires, alternator, starter, fuel pump, and a few vacuum/fluid lines that were cracked or rusted through.
A friend of mine sold me some 1983 SS rims that he had laying around, so I had them sandblasted and powder coated.
Before
After
I masked off the each rim and painted the black accents myself.
Unfortunately I haven't documented much of the other stuff I've done to the car, but hopefully this project log will give me more incentive to do so.
Other things I've done are tint the windows 35%, painted the bumpers, painted the headlight housing since I couldn't find decent chrome ones that didn't cost an arm and a leg, added flowmaster duel exhaust, 6x9's in the rear along with other new audio equipment, and I built a gauge cluster since I think only two of the six gauges didn't work.
Here are some current pictures I took just a few weeks ago before putting the car away for the winter.
As you can see below, I put a different steering column in because my stock tilt column was plagued with the infamous steering tilt column wiggle 😀 I do plan on putting the stock column and steering wheel in once I rebuild it, but until then, I'll have to rock this POS.
