my friend just bought a loaded 97 T/A with leather and t-tops and they r really nice cars. plenty of power too . i was lookin for one for a while but then i came across 91 firebird that was 2 good 2 pass up.

wtih that kind of money you could find a really nice 3rd or 4th gen. its all about timing and looking in the right place. if u come across one of those "double what its worth" cars and u really like it just make an offer.
***Remember... money talks, bull**** walks***

As far as places to look, try looking in your local auto trader newspaper or whatever u have. take backroads u dont normally take just to see if someone has someting u might like for sale. might try autotrader.com or ebay. if you find a car and it happens to be close, look at it and make an offer to end the auction if u really like it. this guarantees that you will get a car u know u want at YOUR price.

 

payed 1200 for my first car, an 86 firebird with a 350 swap. had full exhaust, 187,xxx on body, interior, and suspension and it felt like it. haha
when i first got it (b4 the wreck)...

 

...and heres what it looked like after the wreck.

 

dare i ask what you hit?

 

when i lived in NY i got it 4 $500 107,000 miles in 03' with no rust looks the same as it did then just got rims from the junkyard 4 $100 wit tires new exhaust and some wax

 

I paid $3,000 for mine, about 5 months ago.. I'm currently building up a 383 stroker for it, but for now I'm just running the stock 305.

 

I didnt hit anything. i got hit by some dumb bitch that wasnt payin attention. the front end damage was from me being shoved underneath the car in front of me. this happened two days b4 Xmas, which made christmas really suck. the bad part was that the same day i was wrecked my dad was going to buy all new suspension parts for my car which was 2 b my christmas present.

 

Paid 3200. 93k miles, Auto 350 TPI some bolt ons, grey interior

I have about another 1800 in it making it run how I like it and some minor work. As soon as I get some cash a paint job is in store and hopefully some Torque Thrust IIs.

 

Well, lets see

For my 1989 Trans Am, I paid $2000 for it in '04. It came with 95k miles. I since then have spent an additional $7k in repairing the car (this includes a new motor and damage done to my baby from getting stolen)

For my 1986 Camaro I paid 2.2k for it in '00. I am the second owner on this, just rolled over 100k original.

 

I just paid 5K for 87 GTA with 37K

 

I paid $950 for the GTA and $1k for the IROC.

 

man you just need to find yourself a super cheap project car, like what i did with my IROC. i bought it for $1,300 and put about $3,500 into it and now it looks like this

 

Yeah i have my 01 Frontier w/ 33's on there but i haven't visited in a while been busy etc. working on tunning the T/A to its full potential then going to redo the interior and see what #'s she lays down at the track...u on the board as well?
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Dont think i have a LS1 but rather and LSI or something like that and it was in the exact condition w/ the Paxton i have just changed the bling wheels for a set of reconditioned irocs w/ a black stripe and been working on tunning it etc. as is it was listed for $15,995 from musclegarage.com where they sell high end muscle cars....Had a guy with 5 cars from them that went bankrupt and had to sell all his cars ASAP and she was one of them thx for the props bud.

Rick

 

when i brough her home for $100:

after i dumped $7500 into her, though it was mainly ate up into the drivetrain

old picture of the engine:

 

Nice Look one question what size meat are you running in the back? i have the exact rims and wanted to go wider than the current 245 i was thinking 265/50's ur's look pretty wide let me know

Rick

 

those are BFG Radial T/A 295/50/16's

 

Paid $7K cash from the 3rd owner July 1st, 2000. I think it was around 7:30PM. I could tell you the weather and the street/intersection where I bought it too

 

I payed 5k for my 91 Z with 52k miles on her. flew out to NE and drove it back to MD, looked like this.

 

Im actually trying to get one of the moderator's (92Formula) cars. Hes got a 97 SS camaro. If that doesnt work out for some reason, I wouldn't mind getting a thirdgen, but like i said, they're so hard to find. I personally would rather have one i could mod a fair bit (unlike my heritage), but i really dont wanna deal with repaints and/or bad paintjobs. Id love to paint my own car, but i dont have anywhere to do it and to have it done somewhere costs a small fortune.

But just by the looks of it, i could get a pretty nice thirdgen for 3-4k.

 

Paid $2400 a month ago. 102,000 miles but still nice and tight. Very clean car and I couldn't pass it up.

 

Paid 500 for her 11 years ago and now got more money in her than I want to count

 

my brother paid $1000 a couple months back he only invest 200 so that it
would pass the stupid washington emissions test. got a dui then left it in
my possesion while his license is suspend. i love the car so much that im
trying to buy my own before he comes down next week to take the car back.
needs a new paintjob(paint is flaking off in spots due to a bad previous paint job) but she runs like a dream.
(note this car is a 87 sport coupe dont be fooled. that is me in the picture)

 

i paid 4k for my rs 6 yrs ago with 65k on the engine. was very clean, now have around 6k in it with the all the mods and the lt1/156 combo. this is what it looked like when i brought it home, the exterior hasnt changed much




now here she is.

 

$1500 and it was worth every penny
got it with some divine intervention or whatever you may believe
you can read the story from cardomain...name: -GodspeedGTA-

 

Paid $625 for her back in April. LG4/ 5sp/ 3.23.











Didn't run when I got her and had all kinds of issues. Interior is out of my old 84 Sport Coupe. This thing was pretty thrashed inside. Had a severe dent in back, pushed most of it out, replaced a taillight (old ones from my 84) but it still needs a new bumper cover. New Distributor, non CC Q-jet, coil, belts, new fluids all around, New thermostat and valve cover gaskets (leaked oil out of there BAD) Also pulled the Emission wiring, the AC compressor. Knocks real bad if you don't put 91 octane in it. Also loves to float the valves at anything more than 70mph. For sale right now for $750. My Last Third gen was an 84 sport coupe with a LC1 (carbed 2.8) and a 5 speed. bought her for $200, spend another 300 to get it running, and fix the driver door sag. which I did only to find out that just doing a compression test would have saved me about $295. It had sucked two exhaust valves.

THE NEW PROJECT!! 1986 Berlinetta that the LG4 and 700R4 were ditched for the 5 speed out of the black car above, and a L82 out of a 1977 Corvette.

Picked this one up for Dirt Cheap....interior is in the best shape of the 3 third gens I've had.

 

6500 Like this, original one owner car:



Over 12,000 like this and all of the interior electronics (to be installed when I get back from Iraq)

 

I paid alittle less than $3000 for my 87 TA over 5years ago. Left her alone for the most part... New seats, new console, alittle mechanical tinkering... This was then...:



This is now: LS1/T56, 12bolt, lots of mods to drive line, all new suspension, 17" Polished WS6 wheels... too much to list...too much money spent.





Justin

 

sorry for the quality. i don't have the originals anymore.
i bought car in 2002 for 3100 euros. since then i spend around 2500-3000 euros for parts, taxes and shipping.....

nebu.

 

I purchased my 92 back in April of 98.. It was a 25th 3.1lv6 bone stock car.

I paid 4000.00 us for her, financed for 2 years. This photo she had a system, window tint, and aftermarket rims.. thats bout it.




my 89 Convertible below, I paid 2800.00 for her in September of 05. 79xxx origional miles, was getting to the point of needing a new top.. some ******* with a knife felt like he wanted my radio more than me, so he got the stereo and now i need a new top.. its a 305/a4 car.




-steve

 

In 1998 I paid $9000 cdn for my '88 GTA. She was all original, except the 700R4 had been rebuilt. She had 97,000km on her, about 50k miles, and was in perfect condition. She has 127,000 km today. She was a 350TPI car.

Since then I have put about $25,000 cdn into the car. Everything from a Minirammed 383, to a completely new 700R4, new suspension front and rear, gears, paint, nitrous, etc.

Today she looks like this picture minus the GTA badges. I decided after she was painted, black or course, to leave the badges off for a new look. Little things like that help when you have been looking at the same car for eight years!

Right now my son is 5 years old, so I've got about another 13 or 14 years to enjoy with her before she goes to her new owner.

 

Holy cow there's some nice cars on this thread. I paid $1,700 for my purple RS about 7 or 8 months ago, $600 for my Berlinetta about 5 years ago. The Berlinetta has lots of miles on it, the RS says 69k on the odometer, but the odometer wasn't working when i got it, had to get that fixed so I really don't know about the milage.

 

damn man, the more i see your car, the more i love that color. its the stock maroon isnt it? i love it.

 

$5500 (bone stock and beat up) with 72,000 miles

About $11,000 in it so far

 

my dad paid 4500 about 2 years ago plus 1500 in mods

 

Found mine at a Shell Station that been sitting for a year and got it for $2500.




Haven't really started on my car except for custom exhaust system and Mods already on it, still helping my dad finish up with his Nova.

 

Paid 1200 2 years ago, since then ive put about 2500 into it.

 

Paid $2495.00 for my 1991 Firebird V6. Very high mileage (176,xxx Miles) but the car is well maintained, single owner, and I recieved all the maintenance records from the dealer. Previous owner was a smoker, so the interior needs some MAJOR cleaning. I also want to pick up a new drivers seat.....the seat lays back completely at the moment, and the ground effects have been beat up a bit, but otherwise, I like the car, Alot.





Total invested in the car so far......about 50 bucks.

I'm enjoying it.

Zero Out.

 

paid 4300 in may of '04. Got it on Ebay.
73,000 miles, g92 305.

 

I paid about 1800 k for the car and after about 22k invested here is how it looks like

 

$22k? Please tell me you have a bad *** engine under that hood.

 

I bought my car just over a month ago, it has 109,000 miles on it, but it is still very tight, doesn't smoke or use oil. Everything on the car works, it was well taken care of. Interior looks good. They were asking $5,000 for the car, but after looking at it several times, we came to an agreement at $3,900. I feel like I got a very good deal on the car with it being a factory 350 hardtop Z. Its all stock with the exception of K&N Filters and a full Flowmaster exhaust system.

 

it says below his atvar that it is a 454

 

very nice car,good fine. i always wated a z but couldn't find one that was worth the money at the time. so i made my rs it too what i wanted.and yes there are alot of nice cars on this site!!!!!!!!!

 

Paid $2900 in Aug. 2001, it had metal showing where the paint was gone and the interior was tore up with 88k mi. With all the receipts, I've spent about $12k on it, including two paint jobs, rims, suspension, stereo, etc. The engine is looking to be another $9k with T-56 tranny.

 

Yours is one of my favorite cars on this site. Reminds me of a Harley Davidson Edition

That color combo is friggin sweet in my opinion.

 

Haha. Thanks man, I'm really happy with the way it turned out with the color combo and the color seperation; to be honest, it's one of my favorites on here to... but that could be biased answer.

 

I got it on 4/22/05 paid $3500. Had 108k and a rats nest under the plenium.

 

Paid $12,800 Canadian for it in 1992 was only 4 years old at the time, searched high and low for a clean car, this was it. Only had 49,000 Km (not miles) on it.

Since then i redid tranny (under warranty, had to put up a big fight for that) I used the car to compete car audio. Redid all the leather in the car, went with a different shade of tan, brighter and much softer. Also i repainted the car because at night the car looked brown, so i went with a lighter maroon, little more red in it.

Now its time for supercharger, brakes, suspension, 19/20 rim combo.

 

Got mine last year in Feb. for about $2300.It was the only T-5 92 i could find on ebay at that present time.I got lucky b/c it was only 25-30 minutes from my house and it was only a 2nd owner.Passenger side quarter panel right behind the door was a little banged up but other than that, everything else was stock.Odometer read 243,xxx miles on it's original 305TBI.After a while, i switched it over to a 357 TBI.Soon enough, it'll be getting carbed.Also added a few other personal goodies to it.prolly $2000 invested in it so far.Pics aen't perfect but this is all i got for right now.

 

$4600 about a 1 yr. ago and so far I have about 2k+ in it and I still have a long way to go. The 305 had a blown head gasket at the very least (still haven't checked it out), so I was fortunate to get 60k mile 350 out of a 90 iroc to drop in ($550). You can find verts for under 5k, but they're going to need a little work as mine does, but they're so worth it (IMO)!

Here's current pics.



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