I've been lurking here for a while, but in July I finally bought my "project" car, after more than a year of looking around to find one.
The car is in good shape, no rust issues whatsoever, has a good driver quality paintjob, interior is pretty complete (albeit blue, which I don't really like).
Plans for it are as follows:
- minor maintenance stuff in the short term (rear suspension rebuild, etc...)
- some LSx engine / 6sp manual swap, re-do wiring, steering column as a first big step
- re-do interior
- rear suspension: minitubs and I am hoping for some sort of IRS
- new front subframe, hopefully a DSE one.
- finally, after it's all said and done, strip it down and get a good nice paintjob
I am fully expecting this car to be a very long term project that I want to do in smaller stages and enjoy the car between the build stages. One idea that I have right now is to find a wrecked 5th gen and re-use engine, trans, interior and IRS.