If only it weren't an automatic.
its been in the cassifieds section here for YEARS. I remember clicking on that car at least 2 summers ago.
^^^ really? hell ive never seen it and i troll the classifieds religiously! LOL
oh well, i guess $4000 is just too much to ask for a brand new car?
Maybe
YOU should buy it if you feel that way.
No doubt that it is-
Quote:
Probably the lowest mileage and best condition Sunbird GT Turbo Convertible in the country.
At the same time I don't have 4k to waste and if I did I wouldn't spend it on a 1988 Sunbird.
to bad....
auto
convertible
i dont have $4000
i am gone from this forum
Joe Schulte wrote:Maybe YOU should buy it if you feel that way.
No doubt that it is-
Quote:
Probably the lowest mileage and best condition Sunbird GT Turbo Convertible in the country.
At the same time I don't have 4k to waste and if I did I wouldn't spend it on a 1988 Sunbird.
LOL ok? dont post if you dont care?
few reasons why i dont want/need it... ive already got 3 j-body projects, not looking for a fourth.
its a sunbird, its got tan interior, its a convertible.
no thanks, not my taste.
but thanks for enjoying the thread!
hmmm......... Buy it, put a boosted ECO in it and go cruisin,
it might have come and gone but i know ive seen it before. It is a very nice car however. I hear the 2.0T can be very nasty if worked on correctly.
It's not like buying a brand new car just because it has super low mileage, Brad. After time rubber rots, cracks, seals, lines, electrical connections etc etc... all wear out. Mileage or not, AGE also eats things away.
On the other hand....you have other fingers.
In my family we teach that boys have a God-stick and girls have a Shame Cave. -John Stewart
yeah maybe if its sat in a field the last 20 years.
this has been garaged since new.
Moisture comes through concrete as well.
However powdercoating does not soak into metal.
Note both.
lol joe. you are such a smart ass.
i can never tell if you are being an as
shole or a sarcasm god.
you are good.
but yeah on my point, rubber will dry out and rot sitting in a garage too. Again, age will age a car just as much as mileage in most places. Rubber and electrical being the 2 biggest places.
On the other hand....you have other fingers.
In my family we teach that boys have a God-stick and girls have a Shame Cave. -John Stewart
i miss my second gen .... sometimes
*pours some 40 out on the concrete next to it rusting in the driveway*
JLAudioCavalier wrote:but yeah on my point, rubber will dry out and rot sitting in a garage too. Again, age will age a car just as much as mileage in most places. Rubber and electrical being the 2 biggest places.
well @!#$, im glad i have all my windows closed off, cardboard taped underneath the car, a tarp over the cardboard and a car cover over both mine then!
sure wouldnt want it rotting away before my very eyes.
its odd though... my 97 sat outside for 3 years, turned pretty bad. painted faded, rubber looked bad etc. cleaned it all up, been garage kept for about 4 years now and it looks just like the day i parked it.
i wonder why its not rotting away like it was outside.
Arguing with you over things like this is utterly useless, you are the most stubborn person I have ever talked to about things you are almost always wrong and unreasonable about. I have owned many cars of age, and my most recent has been garage kept it's whole life and is an absolutely MINT condition 1983 with only 56K original miles on it. Guess what, On my 85 BMW that has been used it's whole life AND my 83 Mercury that has been babied, and garaged it's whole life, they both needed some kind of seal, weather stripping, or vacuum hose. It's a fact of life. Rubber does that, Brad.
On the other hand....you have other fingers.
In my family we teach that boys have a God-stick and girls have a Shame Cave. -John Stewart
Its the ozone attacking the neoprene rubber that most seals, hoses, and weather stripping are made of. It is a cheap "durable" rubber. But it only last around 20 years no mater what environment it is in.
PRND321 Till I DIE
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M45 + LD9 + 4T40-E, GO GO GO
ive seen plenty of old muscle cars that have been garage kept their entire lives not have one problem with their rubbers, and they are over 40 years old in some cases.
now, granted... a lot could have been replaced, but not the ones who advertise 'bone stock original-untouched' are the ones i am referring to.
and lets be honest here, my 97 was daily driven most of its life, and like i said sat outside for 3 long years... the rubbers and electrical are doing just fine and its going on 14 years old.
if a POS cavalier can make it through, id like to think a BMW certainly could.
but, i do agree on some of it with you, guys. engine hoses go bad all the time, especially on daily drivers. you will not get anything from me on this part.
some rubbers just wears out faster than others do, its a fact of life. but... thats not the argument here. the argument is that a cars rubbers will rot in the same amount of time sitting in a garage over a car thats being daily driven. THATS the part i completely dis-agree with you on. its the weather that does its bidding on that stuff... the moisture, salt-sand, etc. not just sitting in a garage.
and for the record NO i dont think a car will last forever inside my garage.
