White '73 99LE Notchback
Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 11:31 am
Sooooo I picked up another one!
This one is white over green.
I bought this one for my brother as a present, he was lamenting that the yellow race car was following me around, and that he wanted a 99 too....
This one was built about 2 months after my yellow car, the serial number is about ~7200 higher than the yellow car. They are probably both in that photo of all the '73's fresh off the boat, along with Joe's yellow car.
Highlites are:
-Clean pretty rust-free body
-Original paint
-GREEN interior (who doesn't love that??)
-Headers
-Soccerballs
-Mudflaps
-Original SAAB AM/FM radio
-Early EMS steering wheel
-EMS tach
-Crack-free windshield was replaced once, other 5 pieces are the original green tinted glass
As far as I can tell it was last run in 2000 or 2001, it's been sitting since then.
Lots of work was done to it before he stopped driving it, he claims:
-Rebuilt gearbox
-New water pump
-Headers (he told me he made them, I don't recognize them as someone else's so I think that's true)
-New clutch, TO bearing, cylinder seals
-New D-jet injectors
-'Tweaked' the D-jet box some
...But this was also 10 years ago.
Clutch pedal has pressure, brake pedal holds pressure, steering turns free.
Engine bay is a little mousy, but doens't look like anything got chewed up.
He said he stopped driving it when the fuel pump started leaking, I think I still have my bag of seals from when I fixed the pump in my yellow car.
It's really filthy now, and not sure what the timeline for getting this guy cleaned up is gonna be but should be pretty straightforward.
And getting introduced to little brother!
This one is white over green.
I bought this one for my brother as a present, he was lamenting that the yellow race car was following me around, and that he wanted a 99 too....
This one was built about 2 months after my yellow car, the serial number is about ~7200 higher than the yellow car. They are probably both in that photo of all the '73's fresh off the boat, along with Joe's yellow car.
Highlites are:
-Clean pretty rust-free body
-Original paint
-GREEN interior (who doesn't love that??)
-Headers
-Soccerballs
-Mudflaps
-Original SAAB AM/FM radio
-Early EMS steering wheel
-EMS tach
-Crack-free windshield was replaced once, other 5 pieces are the original green tinted glass
As far as I can tell it was last run in 2000 or 2001, it's been sitting since then.
Lots of work was done to it before he stopped driving it, he claims:
-Rebuilt gearbox
-New water pump
-Headers (he told me he made them, I don't recognize them as someone else's so I think that's true)
-New clutch, TO bearing, cylinder seals
-New D-jet injectors
-'Tweaked' the D-jet box some
...But this was also 10 years ago.
Clutch pedal has pressure, brake pedal holds pressure, steering turns free.
Engine bay is a little mousy, but doens't look like anything got chewed up.
He said he stopped driving it when the fuel pump started leaking, I think I still have my bag of seals from when I fixed the pump in my yellow car.
It's really filthy now, and not sure what the timeline for getting this guy cleaned up is gonna be but should be pretty straightforward.
And getting introduced to little brother!