Basket case 88 gta

[spudz]

Ok I have sold a few cars and have some play money. SO I have been looking for a nice drivable project for cheap for the past few weeks. I have came up with nothing.. SO I have decided to just fix something I had. I started to do my 81 z28 but I decided to do this 88 GTA instead. ONLY because I got a great deal on a complete TPI motor off of craigslist. So the z28 went back agian and the GTA got pulled out. FIRST the history on this car... A guy a know had this car while I was in high school. I ALWAYS wanted it. I just really liked it.. It had 305 TPI and a 5 speed. WELL the motor went to knocking and it sat. He wouldnt sell it for nothing. Then he decided to work on it some and pulled the motor and later threw it away and then used the trans in his 86 camaro. Leaving this car an incomplete roller. So I bought it to keep it out of the junk yard. I have had it about 6 years or so. I have been keeping an eye out for a wrecked tpi car for a while now but no luck until I found this engine. SO I dug it out the back today, cleaned the crap out of the interior and pressure washed everything and set the new engine in. I have a wrecked 87 trans am 305 tbi with a 5speed out in the country where I store junk cars. I am going to go get it and grab all the rest of the missing parts including the transmission. When I bought the wrecked 87 it ran great and the a/c blew cold. HOPEFULLY it still does. Its been out there about a year. ANYWAYS here are todays progress from where its been sitting for years. The pressure washer pulled alot of the paint off down to the primer lol.