It has been so long since I had something other than my friggin boring WRX to drive around in, since I chopped up my Redfire money pit to make it SFI track legal, CroMoly caged/subframed, HP supported, A/C deleted, backseat deleted, Battery relocated, yada..yada... So when my hunting buddies son asked me if I wanted to buy his prized 99 SS W/19K miles and only a catback cheap because he needed money quick for a down payment on a house for his new wife and baby, I knew he must have been bumming.
I thought about it for .....this...long. SOLD!
I told Jr. 4 years ago that if he ever wanted to sell it I'd buy it and he remembered, but that was before I bought my 04. I then told him that I would sell it back to him when he got the family squared away and the look on his face went from totally crushed, to an ear to ear grin. So actually, in a way I'm sort of leasing it.
The first owner was a GE exec and got the full house on the options. Chrommies, friggin SS car cover, 12 cd changer, you name it. Jr. bought it from him W/ 9K when it was less that 2 years old and put another 10K in 5 yrs. Garaged in the winter and Jr. never even took it to the track, just a little street racing but it is ding/dent/scratch free, more than I could say about my cobra, WHEN I PICKED IT UP AT THE DEALER!
Boy do I need a torquey cruiser with A/C and in 99 it was the top dog, only replaced by the terminator in 03. This makes my 04's basically track-only duty seem a little less painful, I was looking around for a 00-02 GT, but even if I got one cheap for 10, I would drop a another bundle on it so it would have a little snap, so I like this factory set-up muscle car that I can just get in and drive. I'm not whining about modding my cobra and I'm never going to put it back to stock but after everything I have done already plus a solid W/locker, N2O, manual steering, tubular K and what ever else I end up throwing at it, driving it on the street anymore will be rare.
Don't disown me, just need something to make up for my missing in action snake. Unmodded used Terminators, even with a few miles are getting harder to find and could be as much as 22-26K (or more), I gave 16 for the SS W/ 4 brand new Pirelli P-Zeros. All I'm going to do to it is add a SLP Air box W/a K&N, 160T-Stat and a flash from a Xcal-2
It has been real tuff owning the badest, most hated car on the street but all I can do is look at it on a lift when I'm working on it.
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Originally Posted by BoneCrusher
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