[Shotimes] Got the '89 back, now to see if I can bring it back

[Jim Heaton]

George,

My daughter needs the money so I'm buying it from her.
We are only the second family that has owned it since
new in '89. We got it from Randy smith who used to be
on this list and had 3 SHOs like I have. I need a car
to at least teach my son to drive a stick on and it
will do that job at a minimum. 

Even so there is not a lot of logic here. I could sell
this one and buy a MTX in better shape for only a
little more money. I don't have a lot of time to work
on it. But I'm going to brign it back as far as I can
without spending a fortune anyway. It's just one of
those entertaining cars (both SHOs and this particular
one) and I suppose I have some emotional attachment.

It looks a lot better that it did Friday. It had more
of the Mad Max flat black kind of thing going but it
is all one color now. And I am teaching my son how to
turn a wrench and I have an excuse to talk with SHO
guys again.

So I will probably be running through the LONG list of
fixes one by one unless something really expensive
comes along.

SO - I have eliminated all idiot light problems except
low coolant (bottle sensor?? Can I clean it?) and the
battery light (rebuilt newer alternator in there - is
it likely a belt?).

Thanks for all the help so far Ron & the whole SHO
gang.

-Jim
Mad Max '89 SHO, '03 DHS, '03 CTS



On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 11:55:18 -0700 (PDT), Jim Heaton
wrote:

>Sigh. At least it runs down the road and stops.

This sounds pretty bad.  You want a good '89?  I have
a good '89.  
Titanium, needs
seat work, but everything works except the a/c.  It
needs a new 
compressor which I
will throw in (a working one off another car that was
converted to 
R134).

All that other stuff works fine on this one....it's a
California car.  
It has a
leaking thermostat housing....I need to fix that,
which should take 30 
minutes or
so.  It goes down the road just fine.  And the
emergency brake works 
great!!

Talk to me.

George


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