This may take a few individual posts to go through all the stuff that has transpired in the last month or so. I'll try to be brief up to this last weekend.
Let me first give a huge thanks to Alan Jones (Docta JONES!) for working the details out for me. Called Alan one day to see if he would be able to go take a look at the car. Alan agreed, I cleared it with the seller and he went to take a look at it. Got some good news and bad news when Alan called. The good was that the car was really nice inside and out. The bad, the title held up because it hadn't been registered in a while. Alan worked things out with the guy and got the title and two days later drove the car home. Well almost home.
On the way back, the car sputtered and basically had to be taken to his shop. After he got to looking at it, the fuel pump was shot. Tank had some stuff in it and really just needed a good cleansing. The window regulator was also bad, timing belt was tight, needed an adjustment on the belts, cleaning inside and the timing was set. After that, car ran so much better (per Alan) and he then took it over to his place. I have to say, the car is extremely photogenic, but Alan spent some time cleaning it up and clay barred the car and it looked even better.
So fast forward to this last Friday when I got in. Flew in around 9:00, saw this while I was waiting.
Waited a little longer and saw this.
Eventually Alan came and we headed back where I got to see the car for the first time in person. Just giving Alan a hard time, btw.
So after we got there, I got to give the car a good looking over and I am very pleased with it. Alan was very upfront that the paint was not nearly as good as it looked in the photos and he was right, but it still looks great considering. The real deal about the car is the low mileage (relatively) and completeness of the car. The fog lights are there, in tact and work. The DEX radio works great, but the CD player won't take the disc, plan to give that a going over when I get home. The engine bay is very clean, only needs a little attention on the harness wrap. The valve cover and intake need to be repainted, but paint will come later for the entire car. One of the center caps on the rear is missing. I don't know if it was there and came off on the way here or was never there. I'll find a replacement for it. I also found out that the driver's side ground effect is broken in the back and there is some damage to the rear jack mount, namely that it isn't there.
The rest of the weekend we just hung out, went to the cars and coffee in the morning and had time to hit TWO yards the rest of the day. We left the first one and I thought it was 5pm, turned out to be 12:30! Didn't find anything really valuable, but we got to hand out and drive around LA. Later that night we went out to dinner, then to a lounge of sorts, saw more high end cars and then headed home for the night. This is all I have from the weekend, but needless to say it was great to hang out in Alan and his friends.
Below are some pics. Notice the orange Calloway Corvette. Calloway was about 10 feet from the car, kinda neat. Actually in the shot of the side of the car, you can see him in the grey pull over and sandals, I think.
Later this was the view. Granted, this is the only shot from the evening but it was beautiful being on the water close to sunset. That's Alan's head blocking the view.
The rest of the car though is great. The seats are great, the carpet is great the body is very straight. Doors close great, all the windows go up and down fine, power seat works, all the dash gauges light up and work correctly. More pics to come later, just been too busy to document things with work and doing some repairs on it. Speaking of which, I also want to thank AJ for being flexible to work on the car. The other day we were able to pull the radiator to get it flushed and he amazingly had a spare so we were able to get the car rolling until the other is ready. We also flushed as much crud out of the cooling system as we could, well he could. AJ is also helping me get the AC working, he'll be doing that tomorrow. He is being paid for his time because it is valuable and I really appreciate his effort he's put through so far. More to come!!
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Originally Posted by cordes
Dave Tekampe
Then the Chicken licker on the other side said to me, "you know, cars have to be moved every 36hours in this neighborhood" She only has her Prius (of course) and never parks on the street anyway. All the drama aside, Seeing the progress and your enthusiasm makes the effort worth it tho 
