A DREAM COME TRUE, AN 1800S PROJECT
This is my "new" 1800S, it's a 1965 that I grew up watching drive around the neighborhood. The owner's son was kind enough to pass it on to me when he inherited it. This was the only way I was going to get this car, every time I asked Joe if he was ready to sell it he refused.
Many years accumulation of debris in the engine compartment, would you believe that after sitting for all that time I put a new ignition switch in it, a fresh battery, cut the fuel line so the crud in the tank wouldn't get pumped into the carb's and turned it over to see how free the engine was and the darn thing STARTED!!!!! These cars just do not know how to die.
My work is cut out for me, but the price was extremely right. Plus this is a car I've always wanted, a bunch of 240 stuff is going to be sold to finance this.
Very little rust but the passenger's side rear fender and across the back is more Bondo than metal, also water got under the bondo and there is some rust so I'll cut the rear clip off of the rust free parts car to weld in. I knew buying that MIG welder was going to pay off.
Stay tuned, as my friend Clay said "You're not going to become one of those VSA guys are you?" Well, yes I am! but I still love my other bricks even if one of them is going to have to go to keep peace in the household. After all I'm getting too darn old to keep up with the kids on turbobricks. My '92 745T has all the oomph I want after kicking up the boost with a G-Valve and my '88 may have a trick or two up its sleve sooner or later. The 245 project. . . well it was parts when I got it and it's worth more as parts than as a whole car now.
