Picked this car up tonight after a 7-hour (1-way) drive. It's been in Aaron's garage for about 11 years, I guess. This is the car Bucar had posted for sale. It's a project they started a while back and never finished. I guess I get to finish it now. The best part - the floors and frame are rust-free. The paint on the roof is pretty much gone, and there are spots on the fender lips which need attention. And a couple of dents and dings.
I wish I had taken some actual before pictures. These are only after we re-installed the hood and put my windshield in it. And loaded it, of course. Which was an adventure itself since the steering column seems to be locked and the key won't turn. So, these are really project in-process pics. A special thanks to Aaron for sparing some of his Saturday afternoon to let me work on the car in his garage before loading it. The weather was crap today, I couldn't imagine towing it home with the windshield open.
Plans are for a 4-corner 5-lug swap (SRT4 maybe?); a 2.2 Turbo engine (probably the 2.2 T1 bottom end I have with the HD rods I just got from Aaron); a Water-to-Air intercooler, and an SBEC harness swap (with an LM+PM adapter harness, I can run any ECU in this car for development purposes).
I doubt it's possible (for me) to get this car going by SDAC. Realistically, I'd like to have it running by the GL-SDAC Fall Color Tour 2015. We'll see.
EDIT: I'm moving all of my photos to a DropBox album to make it easier to keep track. I'll fix the pic links soon. In the meantime, here's a link to the album...
https://www.dropbox.com/sc/qiwgddyb7...tFTeSYTsrJE2Qa