Hi, I am hoping someone can help and educate me on this. If this topic is supposed to be in another section please let me know where I should be posting this. I have been looking for an 82 Trans Am for a while am going, to be honest, I hope I don't upset the die-hard Tran Am fans. I am looking to have a Knight Rider Kitt Replica looking to have 2 one show accurate and the other half show accurate/modern to be my daily driver. I have been having a hard time finding an 82 either in good shape or when I find one I am too late it gets sold right away sorry if this is going to be a long post. I am looking at two 1983 Tran Ams I am hoping someone can help on what is the best price I can offer the sellers based on the shape and miles on the car. I am going to give as many details as I can along with pictures of them really hope someone can help I like to be fair and not low ball people when making offers hope someone can help me thank you.
Trans Am 1983 Miles 94,000 No rust he did say the paint is not perfect a couple of touch-ups
Trans Am 1983 WS6 performance package miles 88,959 lower door rust he has two extra doors along with extra parts he said along with it needs a refresh on the paint the breaks need to be serviced because the driver's side caliber locks up.

 

What are they asking for the cars?

 

Hi one is 9 something the other 6 something

 

One Man's opinion only ; In the right market car #1 could go $5K to $7K for overall cleanliness and presentable looks (course the "cease fire" injection may be off putting to some so factor that into any price reduction as well), and car #2 is $2K tops due to the whole "rode hard and put away wet" look, the "triangle of death" says to me that at least one previous owner was a poseur who likely beat the snot outta it on a regular basis. Looking close, IS that rot I see at the bottom of the driver's door? If so, it's a pass at anything but a "parts car" price. Since these are both gonna be turned into KITT clones anyway the only present overall physical condition that matters is that they've gotta be absolutely 101% rust/rot free, the many thousands your gonna spend making KITTs will increase exponentially if you start with a rotbox such that car#2 could possibly be from what the pics show. My last thought on #2 is that the grease pencil writing all over the driver's side looks to me like junkyard markings, that car was likely sent to the scrapyard and now someone thinks they can flip it for mad bank without even bothering to try to clean it up some, I'm down to calling it a $1K parts car

 

that first one is an '82-has all the '82 details intact under the hood-a serious buyer would have to look that over underneath for rust-also the air filter "*****"are missing,engine could be sucking dust...I think that car is too nice to turn into a replica the interior color is wrong for that purpose anyway. The 2nd car is far enough gone to turn into a replica without remorse-look over the rust/damage/aged or missing interior parts etc.and decide

 

looking again ,car #1 is really cool and would probably be in my driveway by now if it was local-car is loaded with cool early-third TA mojo,might have the aluminum hood too.Has had some salt/moisture exposure,so there could be some trouble lurking underneath...

 

Took me a minute to get “the triangle of death”. Lol. Agree with it being a parts car, although unless I’m missing something, the seats look to be in excellent condition.

 

I am digging it too. If the CFI is problematic I’d switch over to carb. Price is too high. If everything checked out, $6000 would be my limit

 

I really appreciate everyone commenting really means a lot to me how everyone is being honest and trying to help out because I am not too familiar with the early Trans Am how baldy-rusted they can get and so on. I also should have added that since I am looking for one to be my daily driver engine is not important because I want it to have a newer Camaro or Vette engine

 

Id take that 92 and drive it as is!!


Not for a replica though...too much work / money for that.....