Perkul8r
03-06-2016, 11:30 PM
So..bringing this back from the dead...
As ya probably seen, but wont remember...I had this thing for sale back in 2011. At the time, we had just got done getting through all my son's chemo treatments, and as I was the only one working...bills were getting stacked up. So moved to get a better job and take care of the fam and the car got sold to a buddy.
Well...for the past two years I have been bugging my buddy about buying this back now that everything family and job wise has been sorted out for some time now.
He was very reluctant as he loved the car and wanted to continue working on it. But...late last year he finally said he would sell it. He has a baby on the way and wanted the car to go back to someone who would continue working on it.
So today I was able to get to town and pick it up. It dont look like much has changed on it, well, because it really hasn't lol. He has only put maybe a total of 3000 miles on it since he bought it. So it was pretty much still just like when I sold it.
I forgot what it was like to drive this car. I totally forgot about the clutch I put in, an act 2600, and forgot about the clutch engagement. I still gotta get that figured out. Seems like the clutch still engages just a little bit off the floor. So was a trick to getting used to drive it again.
But minor things will come to bring the car back to where I want it. Really just glad I was able to get this thing back and continue the work I wanted to do to it.
Edit: I know the pic links in this thread are gone. I was having issues with photobucket so saved all my pictures and closed my account. I will try to get them back up.
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1482/25550549286_6f4f040269_z_d.jpg
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1458/25550549116_7dfec85e89_z_d.jpg
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1562/24949991763_bf6e71c409_z_d.jpg
As ya probably seen, but wont remember...I had this thing for sale back in 2011. At the time, we had just got done getting through all my son's chemo treatments, and as I was the only one working...bills were getting stacked up. So moved to get a better job and take care of the fam and the car got sold to a buddy.
Well...for the past two years I have been bugging my buddy about buying this back now that everything family and job wise has been sorted out for some time now.
He was very reluctant as he loved the car and wanted to continue working on it. But...late last year he finally said he would sell it. He has a baby on the way and wanted the car to go back to someone who would continue working on it.
So today I was able to get to town and pick it up. It dont look like much has changed on it, well, because it really hasn't lol. He has only put maybe a total of 3000 miles on it since he bought it. So it was pretty much still just like when I sold it.
I forgot what it was like to drive this car. I totally forgot about the clutch I put in, an act 2600, and forgot about the clutch engagement. I still gotta get that figured out. Seems like the clutch still engages just a little bit off the floor. So was a trick to getting used to drive it again.
But minor things will come to bring the car back to where I want it. Really just glad I was able to get this thing back and continue the work I wanted to do to it.
Edit: I know the pic links in this thread are gone. I was having issues with photobucket so saved all my pictures and closed my account. I will try to get them back up.
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1482/25550549286_6f4f040269_z_d.jpg
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1458/25550549116_7dfec85e89_z_d.jpg
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1562/24949991763_bf6e71c409_z_d.jpg