On the fence w/ the car??!!

[NCTURBOS]

OK... Help me out with this. I've owned this car for over (1) year and it hasn't left the garage @ the house since the day I bought it, until this past weekend when I moved it to the shop. But now I'm questioning how I want to modify it. The car is not perfect w/ over 100k miles on the odometer, and it is in need of a good paint job.

What should I do...???

 

[1LowLeSabre]

Trade me for my '99 two door two wheel drive Tahoe. Thats what I would do.

 

[SGRIM]

Restore it... They are getting scarce!

 

[NCTURBOS]

PS- Any of the modifying I would do could easily be reversed for restoration down the road...


K.

 

[BLACK6PACK]

Paint it BLACK!!! j/k

There was only one guy at BG that ran the totally stock class and won $1500. He was in the high 11s though IIRC.

 

[BlackMetal]

I'd think conforming to the race classes would be a pain.

I'm split between "mod it the way I want" and "restore it". You mention restoring it only when time/money allows, so sounds like you can't afford it right now. Might as well mod it and have a little fun going fast, then down the road you can restore it.

 

[ghall]

As long as you waited for that car, i can't see the first option at all.

I voted to mod it the way you want and then drive it enjoy it



Geoff

 

[ttypewhite]

If you have parked it for a year and have not touched it, restore it then. Once your restoration is done, start putting the power to it. Or flip the car and buy what you really want and save some coin in the long run. Restorations can be expensive, then putting more power to it can also cost you your left nut. I would outway your options. Ask yourself these questions. How much is the restoration you would be happy with cost?
Whats involved in this restoration?
How fast would you like to see the car run? How much would that cost to get it there?
Now ask yourself how much could I get for this car in its current condition? Then add the cost of your restoration and performance upgrades to the price you think the car is worth. You better have a couple beers and a left handed cigarate present (puff puff pass) when you do your tally.
Once you have laid all costs out on the table, check the cars forsale section and look for that car that you are trying to make out of your current car and compare costs. No sense in pissing away money if its not nessesary. People say a recesson is coming, I say its already here.

 

[86brick]

PS- Any of the modifying I would do could easily be reversed for restoration down the road...


K.

Think you answered your own question Keith. I would personaly either modify it for the TSA class or modify it with all the usual bolt-ons (bigger turbo, downpipe, SLIC, CAI, inj., etc.) and just have fun with it.

 

[Gary Wells]

I know that I am going to get kicked around the block bad for this response, but it seems to me that there is something wrong with this picture. You bought the car, parked it for whatever reason for a year, drove it to the shop, and now are not sure what to do with the car. I would drive the car enough to get a gut feeling of what road to take here. If you let it sit too long, which sounds like it is almost a possibility already, it will be harder to to do what you want to do with the car once you have made a decision. This is not a good time to sell either, and there is no guarantee that things will get better for quite a while, so most peole's money will get tighter, not looser. I wish you well in your decision making process, but am afraid to help you make a decision for fear of heading you in the wrong direction. I really think that if you spend some time with the car, drive the car some & play with it a little, the car will let you know what you should do with it. HTH

 

[jhanson1750]

It's YOUR car build it YOUR way. I like doing things my way so I never really liked class racing. Just my hang-up though. Jon Hanson

 

[turbopete]

Take care of it

I sold by 87T, and I wish I still had it, because they were so rare. I bought myself a GN, but the T will always be my favorite.

 

[fatride]

Keep that very rare Sage car. How many are left out there?? Not to many opportunities to pick one of those up. I like what TTypewhite had to say...
Restore it, maybe put a few nice mods on it, run 11's and have a nice/fast very rare car

 

[getchasum]

If it was my car I'd do a stock original clean up & paint, then enjoy (you do not have to build a top flight show car) The mods would be light and unseen, with attention to detail around stock appearing. If you're wanting to build a race car, I would choose one that you are not concerned about hurting the value and is less rare. To say restore it latter (years down the road) I think is bad advice also, due to parts getting harder to find and costing more ever year.
I think ttypewhite advice is dead on....before you sink the coin, is this car a long term keeper for you? The One???

 

[Project TNX]

I would restore it to 99% stock appearing due to the rarity of it, but I would certainly make it a low 12 second car, and maybe widen the stock T wheels, I would definitely keep the color and turbines and I would never put a cage in it or gut the interior.

 

[TLIMITED]

Keep that very rare Sage car. How many are left out there?? Not to many opportunities to pick one of those up. I like what TTypewhite had to say...
Restore it, maybe put a few nice mods on it, run 11's and have a nice/fast very rare car

Yeah,It is a super rare color.You can sell it to me!!!!!

 

[usetaboost]

I've always thought it would be cool to have any regal that color. Or a blue one like my old one or a real deal like "quick6nkc" SOmthing different I guess

 

[Kip]

You could sell it to me and then watch it go fast on someone else's dime.
Take care, Kip

 

[87GN_ponykillr]

Lets make a trade deal for my LS1 car :biggrin: serious

 

[gbsean]

keep it stock on the outside...lose the new rims....and just do tha basic mods to the motor....would make a real nice sleeper and kill most cars on the street...