Do eeeett. Worse you can is just scrap the car and wipe your hands of it..
Do eeeett. Worse you can is just scrap the car and wipe your hands of it..
Well, me and a friend went over to pick it up today. Second thoughts kicked in once I saw it. That paint is not nearly as good as in the pictures. A.K.A. Craigslist classic old pictures.
-The hood, roof, and spoiler all have some pretty bad clear coat issues.
-There is a pretty bad dent directly above the passenger rear tail light, and the whole taillight lens is gone. (Needs tail light, $75 on eBay)
-The tires are pretty bad, low tread, plenty of dry rot.
-The interior is actually pretty good. It could use a good cleaning, but overall for 182k miles it is in really nice shape inside.
-The key itself is kinda nasty and the buttons are gone, but I found out you can actually get a new key casing on eBey for like $12.
-Brakes are pretty rusty, we'll see how they clean up. E-brake is off as well, not sure what's up with is exactly.
-The battery is COMPLETELY dead. Even with our mini boost pack it wasn't enough to crank over. (One time I used that boost pack to jump start a v10 dodge truck, they are pretty nice.)
The guy said he parked it a year ago after he got 2 different quotes for it to pass inspection ($1200, and $950). Apparently he just didn't drive it for a while and then when he went to start it it wouldn't start. He said another person came to look at it and brought a new battery and it would crank and act like it wanted to start, but wouldn't start.
So I did end up getting it, but seeing as how it was not as pictured and rougher than I expected I talked him down to $100. Basically just to take it off his hands. (It was parked a previous apartment and the landlord wasn't super happy about it sitting there, so the aspect of it being gone was pretty appealing to him.)
Current plan is to get a new battery for it and see what it'll do. Possibly drain the gas and put fresh gas in. Hopefully I can get it running.
Oh this is going to be awesome, count me in! 
For $300 you can't go wrong. If it has a functioning stereo amp under the drivers seat, you can sell it for $100 and you're 2/3 way to re-coup! The whole interior can be parted for way more than $300 as well. Likewise for the front bumper cover/spoiler.
They are also great cars if you get them running right. Go get a set of NGK copper plugs for your testing/getting it running. If you've had a car with a good shifter, you will find that the 6 speed feels weird. This is fixed with some metal bushings if you care.
Well, it's alive.
Thanks for the tip asoduk!
I borrowed the battery from my e28 (Who knew, they actually do use the same battery!) put in a set of copper spark plugs from advance, and it started up! At first it was a little rough, but it seemed to smooth itself out.
More info to come, I am going to start an official build thread. Total cost as of this point is $108.48 so who knows, this thing may make it's way down to the $2017 challenge.
Congratulations! What an awesome score. If it clunks in the front it is usually the sway bar end links. Then you can tune it for more boost!
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