1971 Gold Metallic Project, The Turbo 1.7 Options

[McMark]

Current Status:
Running great!

I picked up this car late 2012 with the intention of flipping it. But never got anything done on it until I tore apart my Marathon Blue Metallic 73 to prepare it for WCR 2013, which of course didn't happen. So now this Gold Metallic 71 is my new driver.

Starting off at the beginning. Trekkor found the car and had it for sale. I picked it up from him without the engine, front bumper, rocker panels or wheels pictured below. Otherwise this is how the car came to me.

[McMark]

I tried at sell the car a few times since it was just collecting leaves in my parking lot. But most people I showed it to found it a little too big of a project for them. So we pulled the rotten battery tray and patched a small section in the hell hole. We pulled the crazy sway bar setups off (see rear underside pic above) and ripped out the wood grain dash. I also swapped the lids to a better set. Both trunk lids had crazy scratching on them, and both were rusted in the usual places (under the lip). The rear reflector got the axe as well.

With WCR approaching and the Blue car still on the rotisserie, I realized I needed a new plan and settled upon getting the Gold car operational.

At first I was going to rebuild the suspension, brakes, etc. But my pragmatic employee, Tim, suggested it would be smarter to simply swap the suspension and brakes off of the Blue car instead, saving us hours of work. DUH! So we had a roller with good brakes in an afternoon. We also installed the gas tank and fuel pump off the Blue car as well because those parts were known good.

The engine was undecided at first. I had a known good 2.0 with stock FI ready to go in and that was the plan the whole time, but when the day came for the engine to go in, somehow the Turbo 1.7 project ended up there instead. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy11.gif)
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