Holy Jumping Jesus! WTF has happened to Grand Wag prices??!! After the FSJ p0rn I checked craigslist for grand wags - something I've always wanted. A running, driving, stock example is a $15k vehicle! There's a low-mile minty one on Atlanta CL for $25,000!!!!!!
Well, E36 M3. Guess I can cross that one off the bucket list!
RossD wrote:chandlerGTi wrote:You mean it's awesome! It rare to find the driving lights in these, too. We just happened to have them on our old J300.oldtin wrote:Looks weird with the early grille
Also note the location of the tail pipes. Lucky for the general public it rarely saw time on the street.
Reminds me of:
mthomson22 wrote:
There used to be a parochial school right off of Route 40 in Saint Louis that had a slide that went down a really large bank from the street to their playground / athletic fields. It was basically 3 of the old style long slides hooked together end to end, but because of the bank you were never more than a couple feet off the ground, if that. It looked to be a blast to ride, because of the yumps at every point where the slides connected. I can only assume that some lawyer got it demolished years ago.
These welds.
Brett_Murphy wrote: These welds.
Going to go out on a limb and say that was robotic.
If not might just be a TIP TIG rig. Video makes this seem easy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZyntkRFXto
Mondays suck.
oldtin wrote:
My God they really do look like Wurlitzers.
I put an engine in one once. I'd like to say it was an '88, but it had a 304 in it, maybe it was a 390, or a 401, but definitely an AMC engine with its Mopar looking heads and Buick looking timing cover/oil pump/distributor, and I'm not sure that the AMC engine was still being built that late. Chrysler dealers still had some bits for it like the air injection banjo bolts. I had to buy a 9/16 NF tap to clean out the exhaust manifolds so they would work. (That is still the only time I ever used that tap. It looks a lot like the 14-1.5 tap that I frequently use.) Had to fangle and finagle to find an air control valve solenoid that worked the same as the AMC one. Fortunately since it was All Makes Combined, we found a Ford one that, if not correct, at least allowed the thing to pass emissions.
Oh, yeah. I remember it now. It was bought out of North Carolina and some dumbass ripped all the emissions stuff out, like welding the air injection system shut as well as removing the air pump and cat, and installing a Carter AFB. It came to us with a temporary tag and a rod knock. We had to install a new engine and make it pass emissions. We have no visual inspection here just a roller, so we did what we could with installing what available items were still around for a not-25-years-old-yet orphan, and then sort of winging the rest.
It passed emissions.
It also got like 8mpg.
Flight Service wrote:
Brett_Murphy wrote:
Brett_Murphy wrote:
It does mention the hum of the engine...
Unrelated, on the wiki page for my turtle
The B-52 is at Oshkosh...waiting for me.
Knurled wrote:oldtin wrote:My God they really do look like Wurlitzers. I put an engine in one once. I'd like to say it was an '88, but it had a 304 in it, maybe it was a 390, or a 401, but definitely an AMC engine with its Mopar looking heads and Buick looking timing cover/oil pump/distributor, and I'm not sure that the AMC engine was still being built that late. Chrysler dealers still had some bits for it like the air injection banjo bolts. I had to buy a 9/16 NF tap to clean out the exhaust manifolds so they would work. (That is still the only time I ever used that tap. It looks a lot like the 14-1.5 tap that I frequently use.) Had to fangle and finagle to find an air control valve solenoid that worked the same as the AMC one. Fortunately since it was All Makes Combined, we found a Ford one that, if not correct, at least allowed the thing to pass emissions. Oh, yeah. I remember it now. It was bought out of North Carolina and some dumbass ripped all the emissions stuff out, like welding the air injection system shut as well as removing the air pump and cat, and installing a Carter AFB. It came to us with a temporary tag and a rod knock. We had to install a new engine and make it pass emissions. We have no visual inspection here just a roller, so we did what we could with installing what available items were still around for a not-25-years-old-yet orphan, and then sort of winging the rest. It passed emissions. It also got like 8mpg.
your profile doesn't say where you're from … but in NC (this doesn't explain being an shiny happy person) '96 and older don't have to pass emissions 
of any kind … just a "safety" inspection 
wbjones wrote: your profile doesn't say where you're from … but in NC (this doesn't explain being an shiny happy person) '96 and older don't have to pass emissions
Move to a real State, (unfortunatly) we don't have any inspection of any kind. You can plate just about anything here in Mi. From my thread the other day. This had plates on it and is 'street legal'
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