Hello everyone this is my first post on the forum and it is about my new project car! I found this 1989 Iroc in a guys driveway and it has been sitting for a few years the owner says the fuel pump went out (or at least he thinks) he said it just stated sputtering and died then he parked it in his driveway for a few years he did not really care to get it looked at or anything.He said he got some maintenance stuff done before that and he was just frustrated with it so he put off fixing it, he had it since 1991 when he bought it from a old lady who won it in a contest and could not drive it because it is a five speed manual so short story short i paid $500 for it and i took it to my dad's shop and tomorrow i will be hard at work on it i am gonna leave what i know about it in terms of motor and stuff like that below.



i will be hard at work on it i am gonna leave what i know about it in terms of motor and stuff like that below.
305 TPI
5 speed maunal
T-tops

 

Welcome aboard Christopher. Looks like a solid example. If the engine have no major problems, I'd say you stole it for $500.

 

Im gonna check compression tomorrow but it sounds good when cranking im gonna check fuel and spark also and see why it is not starting.

 

Lucky sob. I couldn't find an iroc at all when I was looking. The one I did find was a non running rust bucket that was way over priced. $500 is definitely a steal as long as it's not rusted.

 

From what i can tell (ill put it on the lift tomorrow) it does not have any rust or at least anything serious.

 

If you can get it running and it's not rotted out underneath, $500 is grand theft for that car. Hopefully you have it running shortly.

 

Nice find!

 

****Update**** I'll post pics later but I just got it running AND driving!

 

Nice!

 

Awesome!

 

Definitely a steal of a price man, you don't get that lucky every day.

 

Gonna post more pics tomorrow I got it all cleaned up and I am buffing the paint now it is gonna clean up really well.

 

This would be an awesome car to return to its glory! 5 speed, TPI with black and gold! So sweet!

 

Hell of a buy for $500, hopefully no big surprises.Congrats & welcome.

Was the mustang for sale too?

 

Very nice! Congrats, that's a really cool car, especially for the price you paid

 

These pictures where taken at my dad's shop and that mustang is a customers it needs a new motor but my dad redid the full brake and fuel system and some other stuff to.

 

Cool story and nice find! Should be a good project.

 

***UPDATE*** The car is running and driving i plan to put tires on it tomorrow and take it for a real test drive to see how everything is and to see if there is any issues i can not see right now.I started buffing the car and i brought back some of the shine i probably should have wet sanded it first but this is fine for right now I plan on getting the car painted in the future,gonna include some pictures of how i found it as well so you can see the difference.

 

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Nice

 

New tires going on today stay tuned for a update in the next day or two

 

Looks like the vertical surfaces still have good paint, but the horizontal surfaces have clear coat failure. BTW, you have the '89 and '90 only 15" IROC-Z wheels.

 

At $500 that was a steal! I would have gladly handed over that money!

 

A little bit has happened since last update I replaced the fuel filter and fuel pump and have decided to have our paint and body guy plastidip the car just to see what it would look like before i invest more into a real paint job I am going to leave some pictures of kinda what the car will look like but i will be adding a color shift pearl on top of mine so it will look a little different but it is basically a grabber blue.

 

please god dont... Id rather have poor factory paint vs crappy *** plastidip crap. it does not just peel off once its been on a while.

 

Car is straight, keep it black. How's the floor board metal? T-tops can make for a lot ventilation down there in a car that has sat outside. Lots of potential there.

 

i agree with this, but it's your car do do what you want. Personally I think plastidip looks terrible.

 

Been a while since i posted a update so here is just a mini one i have been driving the car everyday to work and school and it has given me few issues and i have decided that i will just save up and paint the car or keep the current paint i am also picking up a dash that is not cracked and a 3 inch cowl hood form a local for $150 just to change it up a little.For the person asking about the floors they are really good and only a little bit of surface rust on the left rear floor pan, there are gonna be some more suspension stuff done and some interior stuff done to get ready for the next auto cross season i really liked the last one i went to and it was a great way to learn the limits of the car.

 

If you decide to switch to bigger wheels/stickier tires for AX and want to sell those 15"ers, I'd be interested in a couple spares to match mine.