Alaskabuick
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- Joined
- Jul 4, 2004
Here is my daily driver project I finished years ago. I stumbled onto this Turbo T here in Fairbanks. I kept seeing these tail lights of this Regal setting out behind a local shop, it was under snow. I just dissmissed it as normal regal. Finally my curiosity got the best of me and I pulled int to take a closer look.. Holy crap, there is a bulge in the hood! Ahhh... its probably a hot air car.. pop the hood and pow! IC starring at me..
So I went in the shop and ask the two Old Guys about it, said the guy who owned it was talking about selling it. So tracked him down and cut a deal. Had 60k miles, (alaska miles folks) even had a block heater. He had parked the car cuz the brakes went out and he azz ended a truck and just put a small dent in the fender breaking the maker light, an accumulator ball fixed the issue.
I then got into my old stash of parts to build up and low buck modest car with what I had. Had a TE44, 50lb inj, ordered a down pipe and hacked together an single shot 3" exhaust from parts and pieces, had and extra set of GN wheels. It runs very nice and is a fun daily driver, bench seat and column shift. I was in the thing really right until I lost control on the paint job.. but oh well.. it looks nice a subtle and i have a good time taking the kids to school and Ice cream runs in it.
The car was a gray car but I wanted more of a now days deeper gray/smoke color. I went on the car lots and looked at all the gray cars that were close enough to the stock color that it would not look like a color change but just subtle change. The color is a 05 Infinity color "Diamond Graphite Metallic"
I enjoy this car a bunch because it is a driver, low stress and gives me little grief..
My big turbo GN just tends to take up my time working on it and testing my patients...
thanks for looking,
Dennis
So I went in the shop and ask the two Old Guys about it, said the guy who owned it was talking about selling it. So tracked him down and cut a deal. Had 60k miles, (alaska miles folks) even had a block heater. He had parked the car cuz the brakes went out and he azz ended a truck and just put a small dent in the fender breaking the maker light, an accumulator ball fixed the issue.
I then got into my old stash of parts to build up and low buck modest car with what I had. Had a TE44, 50lb inj, ordered a down pipe and hacked together an single shot 3" exhaust from parts and pieces, had and extra set of GN wheels. It runs very nice and is a fun daily driver, bench seat and column shift. I was in the thing really right until I lost control on the paint job.. but oh well.. it looks nice a subtle and i have a good time taking the kids to school and Ice cream runs in it.
The car was a gray car but I wanted more of a now days deeper gray/smoke color. I went on the car lots and looked at all the gray cars that were close enough to the stock color that it would not look like a color change but just subtle change. The color is a 05 Infinity color "Diamond Graphite Metallic"
I enjoy this car a bunch because it is a driver, low stress and gives me little grief..
My big turbo GN just tends to take up my time working on it and testing my patients...
thanks for looking,
Dennis
