pvt num 11
Finally driving it
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- Feb 23, 2005
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I may be purchasing a t-top/cloth TTA shortly, and wondered if anyone does or did live in Hawaii, with their TTA. I've seen maybe two over the eight years I've been here, so I may be buying the last one left, but I wanted to be sure. Plus, it would be cool to represent the turbo crowd for when the local third-gen guys and us get together.
F-bodies aren't very plentiful here, especially ones worth any money. Camaro's are more common, but it's the Firebirds that I have trouble finding. The ones I do see are either well-kept or ragged out beyond belief.
As far as Buicks, go, one of my co-workers owns THREE GN's. Pretty commonplace here, the whole G-body thing in Hawaii is about as common as nitrogen is in the atmosphere.
It won't be my first third-gen, I've owned a beater 2.8 '87 Firebird, and I currently own a somewhat ragged-looking 350 TPI '88 GTA, but at least that car runs pretty strong, despite visual apperances. So, even though I'm unfamiliar wiht the Buick 3.8 engines, I'm pretty familiar with the personality and 'quirks' of the F-body.
If I get it, I plan of leaving it bone-stock (as it sits now, with the exception of a turbo timer) and use it for taking the wife on dates. Plus, one hell of a back-up car if the GTA has problems, eh?
(I'm also a member of TGO, if anyone cares.)
F-bodies aren't very plentiful here, especially ones worth any money. Camaro's are more common, but it's the Firebirds that I have trouble finding. The ones I do see are either well-kept or ragged out beyond belief.
As far as Buicks, go, one of my co-workers owns THREE GN's. Pretty commonplace here, the whole G-body thing in Hawaii is about as common as nitrogen is in the atmosphere.
It won't be my first third-gen, I've owned a beater 2.8 '87 Firebird, and I currently own a somewhat ragged-looking 350 TPI '88 GTA, but at least that car runs pretty strong, despite visual apperances. So, even though I'm unfamiliar wiht the Buick 3.8 engines, I'm pretty familiar with the personality and 'quirks' of the F-body.
If I get it, I plan of leaving it bone-stock (as it sits now, with the exception of a turbo timer) and use it for taking the wife on dates. Plus, one hell of a back-up car if the GTA has problems, eh?
(I'm also a member of TGO, if anyone cares.)