ROBERTDMERRILL

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My friend selling his 1984 Trans Am with 79k original miles, original black paint, original gold strips, original gold deep-dish high-tech turbo rims, original 5.0 H.O. engine and original 4sp auto transmission. Has T-Tops with lots of nice luxury options. He is the 5th owner and car has been garaged. It has no accidents, has a clean auto check report and a clear title. No rust issues. Needs some work. $3,000 FIRM to own this true rare survivor. Call him at 516-851-6276.

funrudy

That is a nice looking T/A. Always a head-turner. The only thing missing would be the hair-chick on the hood....does she come with it too?
:-)

Do you know what kind of work? Looks like the rear carpet is worn down but that may be the picture. Also, the front pass kick panel looks a mess, any idea?

I currently have a '86 and '01 in the stable but would consider depending on the type of work involved. No a mechanic, just a true fan of the F-Body. (Also have to convince the wife why another F body is needed but that is a future bridge to cross.)

Thanks,
Edd

snake70

sweet car r u interested in trades ?

ROBERTDMERRILL

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My friend says that it will need a power brake booster, 2 valve cover gasket (there is a slight oil leak) and new covers for front seats.
The body is straight and no rust. Starts right up and idles smooth. Undercarriage is clean and mufflers and cats are quite.
No trades. $3K cash and FIRM.
Call 516-851-6276 if interested.

ROBERTDMERRILL

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I forgot to mention that it has 4-wheel disk brakes and posi-traction.

TA76

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Nice looking car, I wish it was a 5-spd. Couple of questions: Why does the interior look rough in spots? The cover is missing from the knee pad, carpet missing from kick panel, rear speaker cover is nasty and the shifter handle looks kind of rough.

ROBERTDMERRILL

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The interior is rough because its all original. Its 24 years old and needs reconditioning. All the items that you describe are all cosmetics and can be replaced with brand new parts if you desire.
The main thing is that it has no rust, orginial paint, engine and transmission that run great. It has 79K miles, no accidents, T-tops and its ONLY THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS! ($3,000).
In a few years it will be easliy worth $5-$7 if it is not already.

91chevywt

Does your friend still have the car? I'm looking for a nice low mileage, stock t/a that I can use as a daily driver. I have to sell my camaro before I can buy. Maybe I could come look at it I'm a couple hours away in NJ

ROBERTDMERRILL

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Yes you can give him a call at 516-851-6276. His name is Nick.

91chevywt

I'm just wondering, do you know why they are selling?

ROBERTDMERRILL

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He is selling because he already has to many cars and no garage space. He has a 1989 TTA (like mine but his has over 100K and is in OK condition), a 1982 CE Corvette and he just pick up a 1973 Mecedes 350SL. The TA had been garaged but now its outside under a cover and he doesn't want it there. He rather sell it then to see it rot outside, unused and neglegted. It was the car that he felt was the best to sell that someone could easly fix up and enjoy.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPEMh0wEeHM

Phyrexius

Nice bird, if that's the original paint it's in great shape. Looks like a good bargain to boot too!

ROBERTDMERRILL

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Yes its the original paint. The car was manufactured in the Norwood Ohio Assembly Plant were I read got the better paint jobs. Here is the post:

Q: Why does the paint on my car seem to fade/crack/peel so easily?

A: Up through the 1987 model year, F-cars were built at two different assembly plants. One was Norwood, Ohio and the other was in Van Nuys, California. The plants both built the two F-cars identically, except with respect to the paint process.

Since before the 3rd generation F-cars were started in late 1981, the Van Nuys plant was forced to use a water-based enamel paint because of the very restrictive CA laws enforced by the CARB (California Air Resources Board). This water-based paint was very different from the solvent-based paint used at Norwood. Another difference was the way the paints were applied. Because it was mostly non-polluting, the water-based paint at Van Nuys could be sprayed on by a conventional spray-gun technique. There were no volatile solvents (only water), and whatever paint did not stick to the cars (overspray) was caught by air filters.

Starting with the 3rd generation models, Norwood began using a much more sophisticated paint application mechanism called a Turbo Bell. The Turbo Bells were high speed (30K RPM) turbines that literally atomized (fogged) the paint so very little solvent was required (much less than with conventional spraying techniques). The Turbo Bells dispense a cone shaped fog of electrically charged high-solids enamel. This fog would be up to 55% solid paint, with volatile organic solvents as the carrier. The charged paint particles would be attracted to the vehicle body, which was also electrically charged (with opposite polarity from the paint) so that the paint particles would attract and stick. Very little overspray would result from this process, since the high-solids paint fog would be attracted directly on to the vehicle by the electric charge. The carrier solvent would evaporate, and was drawn into burning stacks where it would be incinerated.

The Turbo Bell painting technique is now used by virtually all manufacturers and combined with solvent-borne enamel like that used at Norwood, results in the highest quality paint jobs. In 1987, Norwood turned turned out some of the finest quality paint jobs in the world. By comparison, the water-based paint would be much more dull, thin, and prone to problems.

The much stricter CARB emissions laws did not allow the use of solvent borne paint at Van Nuys. That meant that the paint jobs coming out of Van Nuys could never be as good as those from Norwood. The water based paint was not as hard, or shiny as the solvent based paint used at Norwood. Then came some real problems. Due to the ever-tightening CARB standards, Van Nuys was forced to give up the spray guns and adopt the Turbo Bell paint application system for the '86 model year. You would think that this sounds good, but the problem was that the Turbo Bell system was designed for solvent based paint and not the water-based paint mandated by CARB at Van Nuys. There was a period where they had not really sorted out how to re-formulate the water-based paint and primers to work with the Turbo Bells, and this resulted in many problems especially during the '86 model year. It took several years for some of the problems to be solved.

You can tell where your vehicle was built by looking at the 11th digit of the VIN. If it's an "N", then the car was built at Norwood, if it's an "L", then the car was built at Van Nuys. Another interesting difference (although there's no concrete evidence) is that cars which were built at Norwood had the top of the cowl painted over in flat black, while vehicles built at Van Nuys left this area body colored.

The Norwood plant was closed after the 1987 model year finished out, as GM had decided that F-car production could only sustain a single plant, and the Van Nuys plant was the more modern of the two. Also, Van Nuys was a larger plant, and had only a two level conveyor system rather than the complicated 5-level system used at Norwood. The more constricted Norwood plant only turned out about 41 vehicles per hour, while 54 per hour could be sustained at Van Nuys. Each F-car took about 20 hours to assemble completely from start to finish. Unfortunately the plant that remained open (Van Nuys) had the poorer quality paint process due mainly to the mandated use of water- based enamel. All remaining 3rd generation F-cars from 1988 through 1992 were built at Van Nuys. All 4th generation F-car production moved to Ste. Therese in Canada.

SpaniardV6

I like this car.

I'm from spain, please look your private messages!

I'm very interested in buy it.

How we can do the shipping to Spain?

Please, I'm a serious buyer , I hope your request!

ROBERTDMERRILL

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The car is sold. Thank you all for you interest and comments.