Stage 2 built. 1987 Buick Turbo T - project -"Fall out "

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It's been a little more than 10 years that I had left the Buick TR scene. Due to the stages in my life I was not doing well financially that lead to many hard aches such as a foreclosure and repossession. My last GN was a 86 that was fairly built to run 10's. I sold the car as a roller and all parts were sold in eBay auctions ect. I was basically went hiatus on the turbo Buick scene.

10 years later , I am doing much better in life. Switch career opportunities and slowly got back in my feet. Ironically a buddy of mine put his 87 white turbo T for sale due hard times. I worked with him a few years ago and once he reached out to me in order for me to purchase his TR, I didn't hesistate. The car needed work , the exterior and interior needed some TLC and love. The car had 120k but the engine still had some muscle in it. During much thinking throughly about a semi restoration process.. I had saved enough on the side for a stage 1 off center built for this project. I have done this by myself but a few members on the online TR community have helped with parts along with great deals.

I decided to call this project " fall out. "

Thanks for reading. And pictures will be posted starting today .

1987 white turbo T.

 

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This car was originally a vinyl top car hence the prepping of the hard top due to the fact of light rust surface.

 

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Doors , trunk lid, mirrors ect were taken off for prep and paint

 

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The paint chosen for the car is the factory Color code that was matched by PPG GM- WA 3967

 

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Pic was taken a few minutes after leaving the paint booth

 

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It's a shitty phone pic but you can see the straightness of the body

 

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He is a pic of the trunk lid that was prepped and painted seperate in the process

 

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Here is another pic of the right hand door that was prepped and painted in the process

 

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One more of the trunk lid.

 

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The quarter windows on the Regals that were equipped with vinyl tops were slightly different than hard tops. A good member in the forums sold me a pair of quarter Windows that were flawlessly taken care off after many years in storage.

Here is the result after the installation earlier this month.

 

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Passenger door prepped and painted.

 

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Door jam shot.

 

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These regals are notorious to have antenna motor failures. We are installing a new NOS antenna motor as we speak.

 

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A side shot of the driver side fender being installed.

(Hence the factory wheels with 86 t type caps ) lol