money's in the bank! car transport picks it up on Sunday to drive it to Virginia Beach to be put on a boat to Iceland!

Wow... my car is going to Iceland. a big part of the last 5-6 years of my life is going somewhere that still seems kinda sureal.

Cool...

congrats tim. what are you doin with the money you made from the sale?

Originally posted by injendsm
congrats tim. what are you doin with the money you made from the sale?

$5700 goes to pay off the new project car i already bought: a 1956 austin healey 100-4 BN2 in need of complete restoration! average worth of this model when restored is around $40,000! unlike the eclipse where $12,000 purchase price(6 years ago) + $15,000 or more in work and upgrades gets me $8000 selling price... ;(
the rest of the $ goes to a down payment on a new family car (chrysler 300c, maybe)


it don't look like much now....




but in a couple of years, it should look like this

Congrats- even though i wouldnt exactly call it money "made." More like "got back a tiny fraction of the money i put into it, let alone blood/sweat/tears/time"- I know, as do many others on the board. Well, at least everything went well with the transaction, and its better to not see it at all, than to have some local idiot buy it and wreck it!

Evan B
92 TSI
97 GS- sold
90 GSX-sold
Stamford CT
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LOL. At least it has the factory wire wheels :P

You better get to work man. that looks like 20 years of restoring ahead of you :P

I hope you got more parts then that...LOL

Good luck man! Sorry to see another old schooler move on though.

A Blitz fiberglass bumper and an aluminum wing would look mad tyte on that.

holy crap Tim, that looks like a lot of work.. basically they gave you some wheels and the undercarriage for $5700. good luck with it! show us progress pics as you go along.

That chassis needs a 4G63T, AWD and MSnS. That would be dope. You would scare the shit outta other owners. I bet that thing weighs next to nothing.

Excellent taste, though, Tim. The "after" example you shared is about as classy as you can get. (Plus, those cars sound sweet.)

Originally posted by DR1665
That chassis needs a 4G63T, AWD and MSnS.

Heh.

That would be the coolest event of the year if you did that :)

You've got more balls than I do. I don't think I'll ever be able to sell my car. Don't think I could bring myself to do it.

isn't it going to cost 40k to make it look like the after pic...

lol, yea it looks rough, but it is 98% complete. almost all the parts are there. i bought it off a guy who has be a healey fanatic for most of his life. He raced them in the 70's and 80's, and has pictures of himself with the origional designer, Donald Healey.

beleive it or not you can almost build an entire car out of new parts. there are a few big vendors who carry almost everything you could need.

i did a fairly accurate calculation and come up with about $15-$18k total cost to get it restored correctly. i plan on doing a lot of the work myself, but when i get stuck or need help there is a guiy 2 hours away who restores them (and other old british cars) for a living.

but, dont this just look sexy as hell? this one is my muse...

good now sell me the GPS stuff from your carputer :p

Originally posted by tim97rs

Isn't this the car Steve Martin drives in 'Father of the Bride'? that thing is nice.