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Cheap RWD "cool" car $1500-$3000?
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wolf_walker
on 07 Jun, 2014 17:40
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Thinking hard about a TPI C4 corvette. I know the ups and downs fairly well. What else comes to mind? Not a Mustang or f body, and preferably not European. I've had euro cars forever. Alfas and later spitfires and such are cheap, but rough in my price range, plus cali smog.
I keep coming back to the vette or aw11 mr2. I'm sitting in the latter, but it's the wife's and has title issues(but it is supercharged) . And smog legal NA's are kinda slow. Plus they all are either 250k+ or modded to death.
Suggestions?
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#1
by
745 turbogreasel
on 07 Jun, 2014 19:55
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A $1500 Vette will be pretty ragged out too. They are pretty simple and well built for a GM though.
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#2
by
wolf_walker
on 07 Jun, 2014 20:49
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Yeah, decent 85 or 86's around 2500-3k here, not a big market for them unless they are pristine apparently. Shame crossfire is so lame.
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#3
by
RabbitJockey
on 07 Jun, 2014 22:16
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miata?
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#4
by
wolf_walker
on 07 Jun, 2014 23:04
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Eh.. Great car, not off the table but pretty boring in my opinion. Too easy.
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#5
by
TimpanogosSlim
on 07 Jun, 2014 23:50
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no euros?
is a cop-edition crown vic 'cool'?
there's a '65 ford falcon out here asking $3k. the straight six in it is not running, but the body is straight.
toyota mr2 and various nissan/datsun Z cars are in that range. and other non-Z nissan sporty things, resplendent in angular glory.
chrysler cordoba in the local listings for $2300. no word on the presence of rich corinthian leather. 6.6L engine tho.
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#6
by
wolf_walker
on 08 Jun, 2014 09:52
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Cop-Vic is very cool, as are a lot of euro autobahn bruisers, but I've been driving relatively sedate euro cars forever, turbo volvo's, turbo saabs, E30's,
merc diesels. Wanting something sufficiently different to hold my attention for more than six months.
CA smog kills a lot of neat cars though. I could register one out of state but it'd have to be worth the effort.
Early Z cars have been on my list, but my budget is asking a lot of a pre-76 model.
The Falcon or Dart or such with a pre-smog straight six to megasquirt has been a one-day plan too, but
finding the right car cheap has been trouble. Plus we have some great driving roads around here, something
sticky would be good.
MR2 or an Alfa really would fit the bill, just haven't seen a good enough example close enough to make me want to try yet.
There is that white 85 Corvette for $2500, 120K or so, looks like an average car for it's age and such, pretty close by.
Might go look. I do not have fond memories of the creaky body but I see the aftermarket has some good attempts at
chassis bracing available, and how wrong can one go with a TPI L98, four wheel disks and independent suspension?
It's like a fancy Camaro to me. Good friend had an 86 back in the day I used to wrench on, and was riding shotgun
when he lost the back in a sweeping 140mph curve in the middle of nowhere.
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#7
by
theman53
on 08 Jun, 2014 11:18
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Ford pinto or amc gremlin?
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#8
by
wolf_walker
on 08 Jun, 2014 12:01
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Pinto wagon counts as cool. But needs a lot of un-ford'ing to be I'd drive it cool.
Saw a Vega GT wagon with an inline six and a stick the other day. Lot of potential but more than
I can handle with my tiny shop right now.
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#9
by
745 turbogreasel
on 08 Jun, 2014 13:56
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#10
by
wolf_walker
on 08 Jun, 2014 15:06
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#11
by
mystery3
on 09 Jun, 2014 22:38
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Starion or conquest? Rare-ish but I'm sure you could find a reasonable condition conquest for under three grand.
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#12
by
theman53
on 10 Jun, 2014 04:58
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Pantera?
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#13
by
wolf_walker
on 10 Jun, 2014 11:13
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Cool but not cheap.
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#14
by
Smoker
on 12 Jun, 2014 08:10
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Starion or conquest? Rare-ish but I'm sure you could find a reasonable condition conquest for under three grand.
This.
Or pretty much any car that you could drop a junkyard 5.3 in and have some fun.
