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As none of you know, I'm selling my 92 5MT SS. She's been the pride and joy of my vehicular arsenal. I had decided to move on to a little junker GL wagon if I could find one and put a dent in my bike loan. I’m looking though the thrifty nickel ads the other day and I see an ad in there for a 91 Legacy Sport Sedan that needs T.L.C. Asking price $1,750. I WAS in the market for a beater, but I can’t betray my love of an abused and neglected sport sedan. I took a look at it today and low and behold she did need some work. Rust around the fenders, paint in “marginal” condition, doesn’t run (needs a battery), clean interior, typical rip in the so called leather on the drivers seat, factory CD player, 200K miles, original turbo engine cover, a lightweight pulley, and cross drilled rotors all around. I had pulled up in my legacy and he comes out to ask me, “What kind of car is that”. I get that a lot for some reason. Anyways, I offer him $850 and her comes back with an offer of $900 in one hour. So, I bought it and plan on picking up my Rio Red wonder on Friday. PS: It's finally got fu*king air condtioning. Yip, yip, yip, yahoo.

So the restoration begins, again.

I've got some confliting opinions on what I want to do with this car.

Option 1
It's going to get the body work done and repainted, but I don't know if I want to do away with the chrome door handles and other chrome strips. I really hate chrome unless the wheels are chrome to boot. Thus, I was thinking to get the stock wheels polished to a mirror finish and accent the chrome strips and legacy badge under the little window in the rear.

Option 2
Do the body work, but de-badge the little legacy sign, paint over the door handles, paint over the chrome in black, and then put some springs and struts in with a set of those rare 5 spoke 2.5RS wheels in gold.

Option 3
Do the body and paint and restore it to as close as I can to showroom conditon leaving everything original.

Option 4
Run the shit out of the car the way it is untill it blows up and then go all out rebuilding the engine while leaving the outside alone.

he was selling a 91 and asked what kind of car your 92 is?

they arent THAT different.

I may be the only person do vote option 3, but a mint restored SS would be interesting, especially because well how many of them are there?

I voted option 2. Gotta love gold RS wheels.

Option #4

completely restoring a rusty car makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, if there is any chance of finding one without that rust

you may pay $1000 more for a clean body shell but it'll be the best grand you ever spent

I'd rather have a rust-free mechanical disaster than a rusty good-running car, any day

I should have said, rather BUY a rust-free mechanical disaster, it wouldn't be that way for long

professor wrote:Option #4

completely restoring a rusty car makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, if there is any chance of finding one without that rust

you may pay $1000 more for a clean body shell but it'll be the best grand you ever spent

I'd rather have a rust-free mechanical disaster than a rusty good-running car, any day

It's not a rust bucket. The only rust I could find was bubbles under the paint just above the wheel wells. I'm sure that I can take car of that.

greg donovan: A lot of people don't know what my car is. It's odd.

corsair: I have yet to see one good one in Colorado.

I voted #4. Put a dent in your bike loan, then worry about restoring it if you can.

but #2 would be cool!

what ever you do paint it YELLOW just to annoy laurel!

I'm such an opinionated car lover

LaureltheQueen wrote:I'm such an opinionated car lover

the place wouldnt be the same w/out you. you yellow hating fascist

das roight!

Oh snap, she said it!!