Purchased on 3/11/05, this car has been sitting for a few months out in Rockford, IL. The car doesn't look too bad in the pictures, but in person it's a different story. Sadly, I think this one is beyond repair and will end up as the automotive equivalent to an organ donor.
Not too bad eh? from this photo a good buff job would make it show worthy...lol.. Take a good look at the door handle on the passenger side, it's the only one that works, and you've got to pull on it pretty hard at that.
Somehow I figured that March would be after snow season. Guess what, I was wrong, a freak snowstorm on the night I went to get the car made the 100 mile trip a little more adventuresome. This photo is the morning after. I bought the car in the dark so this is my first view of it in the daylight (it looked a lot nicer in the dark). Kinda like waking up next to an ugly chick after a night at the bar.
A quick trip to the car wash made it look a little better. Kinda like after that ugly chick puts her make up on. The paint has the deep luster of faded primer, it appears to be a poor respray over the original silver paint. I sure hope it's got a great personality.
Day 3, trailered the car to the shop where I could play with it a little more and assess whether or not it's worth fixing or would be better off as a parts car. Looks like the previous owner never finished the clear turn signal lens conversion.
The interior is pretty rough, newer omni seats are in good shape and reside where the original GLH "Trenton" cloth seats once lived. Newer style one piece door panels are on the car as well. I had hoped that by some slim chance this car would have a good center armrest, but like all the rest it has split at the seams with age. The headliner was not in the car, it was in shreds and pieces under a pile of parts next to the sellers garage.
Remember that pile of parts I mentioned? Here it is, the rear seats and interior panels, a cracked dirty mess, little of which can be salvaged.
Hmm, that's a weird spot for rust.
Looks like that rust goes all the way through. On a positive note, nothing communicates your road rage better than sticking your finger through the roof of the car when giving someone the bird. (Note: Index finger was used for this photo). The model is now in the clinic awaiting a tetanus shot.
Now, for the good stuff. Hows about some decent Nitto tires all around, nearly new in the rear and about 50% worn in the front.
Normally shiny things make me drool, but this muffler just ain't working for me.
The rear Shocks appear to be pretty new.
Receipts in the car show that the gas tank and fuel pump were recently (2002) replaced.
While we're downstairs, that jagged rusty thing behind the patched fuel lines is what used to be a frame rail
The other side is not much better, don't try to jack this car up from the factory brackets...
Drivers front floorpan, only a few more miles from being a Flinstone mobile.
Passenger floorpan, better that the drivers side, but still not pretty
Another view od the drivers side floor, note the rust hole in the fenderwell also.
Back upstairs things aren't as bad looking, the red air filter housing held a new K&N drop in filter, true to the sticker on the rear window. The engine was supposedly rebuilt recently and is running the cylinder head that came off my black DC omni. I had traded the head and $100 to the owner of this car a few years ago for an 89 Voyager turbo. The previous owner had some trouble getting this car to run after messing around with some +20% injectors in it. A quick, no tools handy analysis reveals no spark at the very least, maybe a blown fusible link?
Summit tach is there to remind me that the car doesn't run.
More bonus items, an Autoguage boost gauge and nice Autometer Air/Fuel gauge. Also an old school Sony tape player sends tunes to some Sony speakers in the doors.
