I have had this car for a couple years now but never posted about it ,so here it is. When I first made contact with the lady who owned it she told me that the car belonged to her and her ex husband .Well he had started to remove the emission controls from the car when they decided to divorce. So the car sat in her mothers garage for 11 years when I spotted it. I gave her my info and told her to call me if she ever decided to sell it. A few weeks went by and she called with a asking price of $2500, I told her that I was looking for a project car and not willing to spend $2500. A few days later she called and said she just wanted to get it out of the garage so I could have it for $600, I'll take it I said and got a flat bed tow truck and brought it home. Here are a few pictures.

 

I'll give you double what you paid for it . Seriously nice car and did you just clean it up and get it running and change wheels and tires or did you have to do more to it ?

 

you lucky bastard!

 

I would love to find something like that!!! Very nice car!

What size are you rims?

 

Seriously nice deal. The Original rims alone are worth what you paid.

 

thats so bad ***. nice find!

 

holy **** you are the most lucky bastard i have seen in a VERY long time


please be good to it.

please dont modify the body or interior or anything else like that

seriously.


especially an early bird

85- up i wouldnt care


hope you dont tear it up or apart thinking youre gonna restore it or some stupid thing like most ppl do and then never finish it and then junk it

dont even swap the taillights out for dumb later years' ones or im gonna want to puke and come find you and trip you onto your face.. heh

to me these 82 83 and non-aero 84's were absolutely beautiful and perfect the way they were designed and came off the assembly line. it seems only 5% of the third gen crowd agrees and the other 95% always wants to swap later crap onto them or kitt them or some other stupid stuff., and ruin what they were originally.,

i hope that you appreciate it for what it is., and how it is.

if you dont then sell it to someone who will

these early ones are super rare already as it is.,

as much as i like mine being one more rarer possibly..and as much as i dont like the black and gold ones very much either.. i still would not to see this one be hacked or messed up or anything,. it looks like its got the best of everything on it..

one as clean as you have found doesnt exist around these parts of the country as im sure you well know already.. i cant believe an original one was found so straight and clean like that especially in the north..,
it looks like its brand new 1983 off the line yesterday wow.,.,
crazy.,.
hope you kept the original wheels to keep with the car always for originality's sake,


just my $.02

what brand size and model/series number are those aftermarket wheels you found ?

im shopping for wheels for my 82 t/a since it never had the original finned wheels when i got it,,

and i think that style would be the ticket wow.





good luck

 

jeeezzz, do what YOU want to the car, im down with the whole right off the assembly line look of these cars and i respect that this guy has such a passion for these early third gens but do what YOU want to do to the car and dont listen to anyone else.

 

I was in a hurry when I posted the pictures (had to leave to drop my son back at MSU) and I forgot some of the details. The best part of this is that the car only had 40,000 original miles and the interior is mint. All I have done to the car was give it a good wash and then I rubbed it out using Meguires products.
As far as mechanical I drained and replaced all the fluids, removed the spark plugs and squirted oil in the cylinders for a few days and rotated the engine by hand every few days until I was ready to try to fire it up. I went through and replaced the shocks, did a brake job, replaced wheel bearings and that sort of thing before I attempted to drive it. It's lg4 305 cc quadrajet. My plans are to restore it back to the original engine configuration with the emmission re installed. until then I installed a non cc carb and vaccum dist.The car now has 46,000 miles as I enjoy driving it as often as I can. Here are a couple more pics.

 

wow awesome car, and great story

 

The new wheels are TT 2's 17x11 rear with 275 40 nitto tires, the front are 17x9 with 245x45. not sure of the back spacing.I plan on putting the originals back on at some point, But right now I am restoring a 1989 IROC with my youngest son (16) so the trans am is just sitting in the garage.

 

i think those new chrome wheels look great on that car ibe always loved the black and gold too

 

Does anyone have any detailed pictures of a stock 83 lg4 engine they could post. If I can see what I am missing I can start looking for parts?

 

sweet deal!
a couple years ago i got a 1984 TA for $400, but it was a roller and not in as nice of shape as yours.

 

how in the heck do yall find these type deals on these cars. man i gotta know.

 

you lucky SOB!

 

Absolutely amazing, i love seeing cars go from looking like relics to looking like they just rolled off the showroom floor. You got real lucky finding a pre 85 survivor with low miles. If you ever sell it ill bet you get more than 600

 

I just bought a red 1983 trans am out of a barn. it sat ten years. the body needs minor work in a couple places. My question is how hard was it to get to and pull the spark plugs?
Ken

 

It's not that difficult, an assortment of extensions and a universal (swivel) joint will make the job easier.Some of the passenger side plugs are less difficult from underneath the car.

Good luck, how about some pic's and more details of your good fortune.

 

I posted my garage find on my page. I'm not sure if you will be able to see it. This is new to me. I haven't done the spark plugs but i did hook up a battery and all electrical is working fine. i need to jack it up and put blocks under to check breaks and under side for rust. It should be fine it was stored for 10 years in a barn on wood planks. i paid $300 for it. i thought that i was taking advantage of the old guy i bought it from until i asked how much he wanted for his Corvet, he wanted $12,000.
I'll try to put a couple more pictures up as i go along.

 

Looks like a nice resto project. I noticed the rear wheel is a turbocast wheel, do you have all 4 of them & the bowling ball hub caps? If they are 15" the can be worth some money if they can be cleaned up. Here's a couple pic's of mine before & after.

 

How did you get those cleaned up so nicely?

 

Just two of the rims and two Bowling ball hubs. I just Googled the hubs & rims WOW they are worth a lot and yes their 15 inch. So how did you clean them up?

 

I bead blasted them at my work, It took a little over an hour a piece. It would have been faster but our nozzle needed to be replaced, but it was still worth the time investment.

 

WOW nice car,btw are you planning on selling the rims?
PM me

cheers