T/A

[Blake Noble]

How much would a plane ticket to CT cost?

[Intrepidation]

http://www.expedia.com

[A Horse With No Name]

By Greyhound Bus it would be about $100, methinks.

Hell...If you could wait until January to get a car, I get more vaccation. I'd help you road trip.

You might be better off trying someplace like Philly where someone like Camino MIGHT be able to look at it and store it temporarily for you.

Or, you might be able to hire Someone to look at it and store it for you.

Chris

[A Horse With No Name]

Oh, and you've started some F body lust for me also. No pics, but check this out!

http://sccaforums.com/forums/thread/391110.aspx

Chris

[Blake Noble]

That's an extremely nice price for a 1LE Camaro. They're not exactly easy to find, especially at that price.

A flight up to CT is $225 bucks and it's almost a 7 hour flight in coach. I think I'll pass.

[Intrepidation]

I'd rather walk than take Greyhound.

[Blake Noble]

I have another '77 T/A 4-speed car lined-up to check out. Asking price: $3,000. Horsepower: 650.

[A Horse With No Name]

Keep looking...

You don't want to fuel a 650 HP car as a daily...and since your replacing the Buick...

Plus, 650 is probably wildly inflated.

Chris

[Blake Noble]

True, but I should have enough cash left over to put a 403 in it if I want.

[A Horse With No Name]

Wonder what 5K buys in a second gen TA?

In a first gen TA, they probably let you smell the seat covers for five large.

Chris

[Blake Noble]

The guy who I thought would be buying the Buick turned out to be a no-show.

If anyone here knows someone who wants it, I've dropped the price to $3,000. I was trying to pursue my $3,500 asking price, but I have to sell this thing before Christmas rolls around, preferably by this Friday.

66: 5k can buy a pretty decent '79 403 car.

[A Horse With No Name]

Methinks you know how much you might need to save...

Chris

[Blake Noble]

I think this search might be over.

As soon as the Buick sells, I should have a '77 T/A 4-speed waiting for me.

[knightfan26917]

I think this search might be over.

As soon as the Buick sells, I should have a '77 T/A 4-speed waiting for me.

I sure hope your search is over. I know you've waited a while for one.... GOOD LUCK!!!!

Cort | 36swm.IL | "Mr Monte Carlo"."Mr Road Trip" | pig valve.pacemaker

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"Decorations of red on a green Christmas tree" ... Elvis Presley ... 'Blue Christmas'

[Blake Noble]

I sure hope your search is over. I know you've waited a while for one.... GOOD LUCK!!!!

Cort | 36swm.IL | "Mr Monte Carlo"."Mr Road Trip" | pig valve.pacemaker

CDshowcase | Sat.Dec 19, 5p-10p.central | Thu.Dec 24, noon.central = www.WRMN1410.com

"Decorations of red on a green Christmas tree" ... Elvis Presley ... 'Blue Christmas'

Thanks Cort.

I hope your new winter ride is treating you well too ...

[A Horse With No Name]

Congrats again...glad it's a 4 sped!

Chris

[Blake Noble]

$2,700 bucks and no T/A to buy. That's a problem. A big problem.

I was going to buy this T/A in GA and pay the seller the cost of gas to meet me in Knoxville with it, but it was already sold by the time I called about it today.

http://atlanta.craigslist.org/nat/cto/1517787013.html

This GA T/A could be one of my last chances ...

http://atlanta.craigslist.org/atl/cto/1522883145.html

This fourth-gen 'Bird is something to check out, but alas, it has a rebranded title that makes me sort of loose any interest in it:

http://louisville.craigslist.org/cto/1499901769.html

[Blake Noble]

How did I miss this!?

http://bgky.craigslist.org/cto/1525057121.html

It's going to take some negotiating but I can hammer a deal out.

[A Horse With No Name]

Now you see what I said about spend a little more money, get a little better car.

Better hurry though, as I am only in Ohio...that 'bird could be in my garage by dinner time!

[A Horse With No Name]

...and after looking at that a second time...that really COULD be in my garage by dinner time...hmmm...better get over there and get that thing before I do something stuuupid...like drive to Kentucky with cash in hand.

Chris

[Blake Noble]

Someone bought it yesterday ...

It's not that you can't buy one in my price range that's decent (you can), it's just that the fucking "OMG! NO MORE PONTIAC = GOLD MINE!" idiots are snapping these cars up before I can get my hands on one.

Edited January 1, 2010 by whiteknight

[Camino LS6]

Patience...

[A Horse With No Name]

Another car will come u0p, slow down, take a ritalin, and chill.

Seriously...these cars were like Fleas on a stray cat back in the day.

There are still a bunch left.

Chris

[Blake Noble]

I have a lead now on a complete '77 black-on-black body, very minor rust, good complete interior for $900. I still have the TH-350 that I pulled out of the Buick and the guy who has the body has a Formula with a running Pontiac 400 (he's only had the Formula and the '77 T/A for about a week and a half now and he hasn't started going through the Formula yet) that he would sell me. I'm thinking I could get the car and that 400 for $1,300. That leaves me with some cash for rust repair and a paint job ... I hope. I should know everything Monday.

Edited January 1, 2010 by whiteknight

[A Horse With No Name]

Glad to see your so determined!

[Blake Noble]

I'm .

Edited January 2, 2010 by whiteknight

[ocnblu]

Funny, when I first looked at that picture, I thought, "screwed in the head".

Kidding, Jacket. Once you find your Firebird and bring it home (and I hope you choose wisely so you can enjoy yourself with it), all this searching angst will be forgotten. Good luck, sir!

[Blake Noble]

Funny, when I first looked at that picture, I thought, "screwed in the head".

Really, it's a little of both.

Kidding, Jacket. Once you find your Firebird and bring it home (and I hope you choose wisely so you can enjoy yourself with it), all this searching angst will be forgotten. Good luck, sir!

Getting a T/A has been a pain in the ass process since October. I would have traded what was left of my '98 Firebird to a '79 T/A project car and this could have all been avoided, but that stupid Regal needed another engine.

Edited January 2, 2010 by whiteknight

[Blake Noble]

Scratch another car off of my list.

Could someone please tell me where these cars have went? By the time I find one and call about I either can't a.) drive it back home or b.) someone's already bought it.

I can already tell 2010's going to be a baddd year ...

[A Horse With No Name]

Good things come to those with cash.

Save, then buy.

Chris

[Blake Noble]

There really isn't any other way to bring in more cash except sell something else and I really don't have much of anything left to part with.

[A Horse With No Name]

Work and save income!

Chris

[FAPTurbo]

Scratch another car off of my list.

Could someone please tell me where these cars have went?

The crusher. Oh what a shame.

[A Horse With No Name]

A BUNCH of them did, back in the day.

Whiteknight would be really upset if he could go back in time with me to my old yard in Muncie, Indiana. Perhaps a Dozen nearly new or only a couple year old TA's, wrecked and being parted...some of them quite rebuildable....all of them headed for the crusher.

I remember one red TA's roof caving in under my feet as I crawled over the TA to get a part off of another car...

And that other car was a 57 Chevrolet two door, I kid you not. AMAZING the cars I've seen in Junkyards, from Bentley's to Studebaker Avanti's.

Sad, really. But LOTS of Birds died in my (my meaning the one I went to, not one I owned) yard back in the day...

[Blake Noble]

The crusher. Oh what a shame.

You know what, that's ok, I think I'm going to take a vacation from here for a bit ...

Edited January 4, 2010 by whiteknight

[A Horse With No Name]

Hopefully you don't give up on your dream...

[daves87rs]

Hopefully you don't give up on your dream...

+1

[Blake Noble]

lulz i bought a rusty car lulz.

Bought this today for $900: http://lexington.craigslist.org/cto/1537630301.html

Runs, drives, minimal rust-through (one bad quarter panel, new one costs $50; what seems to be good floor pans), awful interior, anemic 301. Supposedly it has about 54,000 original miles. I dunno. I doubt it. At first I didn't really want it, but then I realized "How many Firebird Formulas do you see versus Trans Ams?" Plan? Make it look like this:

But possibly with T/A lower body flares. I'm on the fence on that mod.

Hopefully someone here can appreciate such a car without having their nipples hooked up to a set of live jump leads.

I'll have $900 in the car, $900 in bodywork and paint, and $500 in an interior kit. Woo.

Edited January 8, 2010 by whiteknight

[Justin Bimmer]

Looks nice, but I have to ask. . .

will it run for more days than your C&G vacation?

[FAPTurbo]

http://lexington.craigslist.org/cto/1537630301.html

I have a 1979 Firebird Formula that I have to sell before Wednesday. Family got in some trouble and we need a lawyer QUICK.

lol

[Blake Noble]

Oh, I'm still away and yeah, it will.

I thought, I don't know, maybe I'll stop by to make one post and someone would say "Cool, nice buy" without a poorly constructed smartass comment. Guess not. Thanks for confirming that guys.

Edited January 8, 2010 by whiteknight

[A Horse With No Name]

Looks like solid start!

[ocnblu]

I've always liked the Formulas more than the Trans Ams, they're cleaner, and I love most versions of the Formula hood. Looks like a good start to a real project, Jacket. Good luck with this one!

[A Horse With No Name]

Don't let other peoples sarcasm (well placed, and perhaps deserved, yes) turn you away from making this thing evrything it needs to be.

Keep us posted with pics!

Chris

[Camino LS6]

I've always liked the Formulas more than the Trans Ams, they're cleaner, and I love most versions of the Formula hood. Looks like a good start to a real project, Jacket. Good luck with this one!

Absolutely!

Formula FTW!

Good luck with it WK.

[Blake Noble]

Update: Backed out of the deal. Discovered some issues with the title.

[z28luvr01]

Sorry, WK.

Hey, would you take a 3rd gen? I know I see them somewhat regularly.

[Blake Noble]

An ideal 3rd-generation T/A would be a '82 - '84 black and gold Recaro edition car with a stick (finding one is like finding tickets to a David Allen Coe concert in Harlem) or a solid black GTA with a stick. Maybe a nice TPI Formula with a manual.

Edited January 10, 2010 by whiteknight

[daves87rs]

Hopefully there are more out there...

[Justin Bimmer]

Eventually you will find a car.

But. . .

Admit your C&G vacation lasted longer than the car did