I still haven't started on this thing, no room for it to sit apart in the barn yet 🙁
I picked it up just after Christmas '07 (as in my dad & I drove from MI to MO 12/27, got back home 12/29). So far all I know is that it was a fairly decent optioned v6 car (a/c, delay wipers, and power trunk release :shock🙂. There is a minor bit of rot around some of the body mount holes in the frame that I intend to fix first. Next will be the body mounts themselves, and likely the bodywork on the underside of the car. There are a couple spots higher up on the body that need work as well, but nothing that looks too extreme (you'll see in the pics).
Getting it ready/bringing it home
More recent pics
Driver's side lower a-pillar
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I picked it up just after Christmas '07 (as in my dad & I drove from MI to MO 12/27, got back home 12/29). So far all I know is that it was a fairly decent optioned v6 car (a/c, delay wipers, and power trunk release :shock🙂. There is a minor bit of rot around some of the body mount holes in the frame that I intend to fix first. Next will be the body mounts themselves, and likely the bodywork on the underside of the car. There are a couple spots higher up on the body that need work as well, but nothing that looks too extreme (you'll see in the pics).
Getting it ready/bringing it home
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Driver's side lower a-pillar
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