Blake Noble

That would be worth a try, but I've never had much success in reviving oxidized paint with buffing. Of course, I was using cheap wax.

The car is Nocturne Blue and the paint has completely oxidized. Yes I do, but small things that bear very little importance and that are nothing to stress about (a rear bumper and door panels are all that I have left to replace).

GMTG74, this has your name on it.

Perhaps. I had to bump my contact prescription up a slight notch. I'm going to see what I can do about buying that '79 301 T/A this week. The seller said he would let the car go for $3100 and while you might not believe it, it is by far the most solid Trans Am I've looked at and actually, as it turns out, worth the asking price. The body is still 95 percent metal. The interior is still 90 percent there and all of the gauges work. If I re-bleed the brakes and tighten one loose lifter down, it's actually solid enough to drive anywhere. This has been the only Trans Am I've checked out that the seller was confident enough in the car that he let me drive it around town a bit. I can also confirm the car is most definitely an original WS-6 car. The door handles had the "4-Wheel Disc" scripts still on them. The seller is also a T/A aficionado like myself. He's owned three of them and currently has a '78 T/A SE in his garage in immaculate shape. Now it's time to see what I can do about parking it in my driveway. Then it's time to paint 'er black, redo the interior in black and saddle, and swap that 301 out for a 400 or 403.

I'm going to check it out after my eye exam. If that car doesn't pan out, I've located a '78 through TAC that's in need of rust repair (there's rust on just about every body panel). However, it's a numbers-matching car with a Pontiac 400, 80 percent of the interior is salvageable, the car has been prepped for storage, so measures have been taken to stop the rust from progressing further, and it runs and drives. Asking price is $1,995. I'll post a few pics for you guys to crawl over later.

I'm going to make a $2500 offer on this if I check it out tomorrow. This has been for sale for about a year now, so hopefully the seller isn't firm on the price anymore. It's also a bit of an odd ball as far as T/As go; it's a WS6 Trans Am with a 6.6L delete option, basically. According to a few websites, about 8,605 L37 '79 Trans Ams were built and who knows what small fraction of those cars had the WS6 package like this one. I've only found another car similar to it, but on a website and never in person. It would be something else if this car was a 301-powered (L37) '79 Trans Am SE. They built just 573 cars optioned like that. Again, I've only seen one on the internet and it was for sale. If I buy it, I know where I can buy a '79 model 403 for an engine swap for $150 bucks. Alternatively I could perhaps turbocharge the 301, but for a substantially higher cost. It all depends on if the seller will let the car go for a much cheaper asking price, if I buy the car, and if I want to keep the car all original once I have it.

Four grand will buy this F-150 with a plow and an ATV: http://cincinnati.craigslist.org/cto/1489627288.html Fourty-five-hundred, location: South Lebanon, OH: http://cincinnati.craigslist.org/cto/1498247913.html

Perhaps if I luck-out this round I'll take that approach. However, I would prefer if there would be some work left to do to the car. I have a far stronger emotional connection to the Cutlass than I do the Regal because of how much time and money I put into it. I don't have anything really invested into the Regal aside from a cheap engine, a few random interior bits, a handful of curse words, and a few hours working on the engine swap (which I had help with). In all honesty, as much as I like the Regal, if someone walked up to me and offered the right cash price for the Regal, I'd sell it on the spot. The Cutlass I wouldn't sell if I was dying of cancer and had to pay for chemo. That sort of connection is an important thing to me. So you can imagine I would want that sort of deal with the T/A.

I've watched that damn movie enough to just about know what color underwear the cast had on. Sad, I know. The S&B T/A used for interior shots had power windows. As much as I do? The state mislabeling the car could be another possibility, yes. I don't think the car had a door swap. The console was the original console and there wasn't an empty hole for the power window switches. I've located an entire interior for sale for that particular Trans Am, should I decide to buy it. Depending on if the guy still has it and what his asking price is, maybe that $1800 T/A with the Swiss cheese rear cross member could still have hope. I'll give it a through re-checking before I slap the cash down. I'm still going to check out the T/A in Georgetown, though.

http://lexington.craigslist.org/cto/1455983855.html This is $700 fat ones extra, but at least I can guarantee that I tell the interior is far more intact than the $1800 dollar special from that tiny thumbnail. I e-mailed the seller, I just hope he still has it. If it's still around, I'm going to check it out Monday evening. It smacks the roof of how much money I can secure to spend, but like Dodgefan said, you get what you pay for. If $700 extra will bring a T/A with a better interior ... well, it's a no-brainer. EDIT: It seems this car also has crank windows ... maybe power windows were optional and were only standard on W72 cars? I'll have to look into it.

I'm going to have to think about this one. So where am I to start when it comes to listing everything that's wrong with or odd about this car? Let's see ... The interior is trashed and the seat frames are just about the only thing I can possibly salvage. The new paint wasn't exactly as great as the photos made it seem. The rear cross member was turning into a big piece of Swiss cheese. I'm not even 100 percent sure it was a Trans Am. I checked out the title and it was registered as a Firebird, leading me to think maybe it was a clone. That would be odd, though. It had all of the Trans Am-specific kit and a 403 ... base Firebirds didn't have 403s. I think Formula models did, however. Perhaps that was what the car originally was? The car was originally Lucerne Blue with a blue interior. The T-Tops were out of either a Z/28 or a '77 - '78 W72 Trans Am. I couldn't exactly tell. Trans Ams had power windows. This car had crank windows. Maybe it was converted? On the brightside the 403 ran great and held oil pressure at 40psi. The seller also repaired all of the body panels and floor pans with metal. He just didn't touch that rear crossmember.

The more you know ...

Leaving in just a bit to check it out. Hopefully the seller is willing to hold the car until my loan is secured (should be Wednesday).

Two Dakotas, one with a 318. When that 318-powered Dakota became a part of the family back in 2003, it had bad freeze-out plugs at under 31,000 miles and a wad of what can only be described as something black clogging the radiator.

Actually, I'm sure that what the quiz pictured as a "Camry" was actually a Cressida (or whatever preceded the Cressida). I don't think Turdy-oh-dur used the Camry name until they unveiled that shitbox they build just up the road from me back in '88 or '89 or whenever.

Should that happen, hopefully I can finally find the address to send all of these to: Joking aside, good luck on the new position.

100% A+

http://lexington.craigslist.org/ctd/1492281915.html Who makes them Mozdas again?

I'm glad you aren't taking the situation with the Silverado setting down. Sometimes you have to fight for what's right. I hope it works out in your favor; I can almost see that happening.

Thanks Camino.

Chicky-check signature check. Chicky-check signature check. You know, for some reason, I'm a little bit proud of it. Now if I could only get that shade of white to match ...

I guess when impatient people give up on something they really want, good things happen. I contacted the seller and he still has the car. When he repainted it, he also did the necessary rust repair (fingers crossed it isn't all Bondo). He did say that the interior needed just about everything but a lot of it could be reused, like the seats. I'll either trade the Buick to it or just take a small personal loan out and use the Buick as collateral. I'm sure the Buick is worth $1,800 and I won't have much of a problem paying the loan off early.

I don't see this feature lasting very long ...

I hate that you couldn't sell your truck, Camino. How is everything going with selling the Blazer?