Unbelievable. I love Quebec. If Quebec had an ass I would tongue kiss it right now. I put my Mustang in storage for the winter and suddenly began to dread that it had been longuer than a year. If that had been the case I would have had to go to inspection, but whatever Gods there are were on my side and all I needed to do was pay 80$ to put the plates back on it and I'm all set to go. It's even insured (50$ a year).
This car rocks. Am gonna buy a battery charger because my alternators dead and I'm too cheap and lazy to fix it. I'll just keep charging the battery at home whenever the car's stopped. I need a charger anyway since I want to buy an old car and it's a must have whenever you store a vehicle for the winter.
Oh my god... I so dodged a bullet. Fixing this thing so it'd pass any kind of inspection would be a nightmare. The windows don't open, the parking brake doesn't work, the clutch is gone, there's no exhaust system, the alternator's dead, I can't put more than a few gallons at a time in the gas tank, none of the gauges including the speedometer work, the heater doesn't work, the doors are crooked and it rains in the car, it overheats like a mother, all four tires are bald and the suspension is so soft and loose that if you rock the car it doesn't stop for like 3 minutes.
Yet, no matter what... I love this car. I really do. As long as it's not my daily driver of course hehe.
If you're not going to fix the car, then why the @!#$ do you own it? Seriously, sell it to someone who will take care of it if you are too cheap to fix it.
You say you love the car, if you loved it you would fix it instead of just charging the battery all the time. It takes more effort to hook the charger up every night for god knows how long you will do it, then going to a parts store, getting an alternator and battery, and swapping them out.. jesus christ man.
I cannot stand it when people don't fix their cars.
Edit: Not to mention, your car is a hazard to everyone on the road and you are worrying about tagging it and driving it? Come on man, seriously.. you are going to get yourself and others hurt. Fix the damn car.
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1983 Camaro Z28
It's not a bad alternator that's the problem. It's that the car is so rusted that the wiring has gone completely insane and it shorts out everything. If I go through the trouble of replacing the alternator like I did 2 years ago, I'll just be doing the same thing in another two years and I'm sick of screwing around with it to be honest. I fixed this car my friend, many many times. I've put 3000$ worth of parts on it over the space of 4 years and almost 100,000 miles. I fixed this thing more times than you can believe. I replaced the transmission THREE times. I rewelded the floor. I put the gas tank back on after it fell off. I redid the exhaust I don't how often (car's so low it ripped it off a few times) and I've become a borderline ford electrical diagram expert with this sucker. Changing just about every electrical part you can name on it twice in some cases. However, that's not really what's keeping me from throwing money at this thing. The problem is that it's rusted like crazy and no matter what I do it'll always be a rustbucket that's got one foot in the grave. When I bought it in 2001 for 750$ it was pretty bad and it hasn't improved with age. I've reinforced it with thick steel plates and tar, but it looks like hell and I don't feel like buying a whole bodyshop worth of tools to fix a car worth less than my wardrobe. It'll be cheaper to simply buy some guy's Mustang rolling chassis and "switch" the VIN number to it when the time comes.
I love this car because it's fun to drive. It has NEVER been fun to fix unless you love the challenge of chasing down bad grounds all over a rusted out hulk of a car.
Right now I have my 2.3 Turbo engine in the garage. I am not going to go through heaps of trouble to fix some mundane detail on this thing when I'm just going to swap the engine somewhere down the road anyway.
Naw, it's a piece of crap, but it's not dangerous. Brakes are fine, bearings are fine. It stops very well (I'm kind of a stickler for THAT part to work. Everything else can be worn out, but not the things that can get you killed. It's one of my rules). It's the starting and going that's a problem. Besides, I'm not dumb enough to drive this thing anywhere except the 2 minute drive to and from work. That's the only reason I put it back on the road.
so you happy that you got the car on the road even though you know it probably shouldnt of passed inspection? well im glad you dont live near me. id rather not drive next to that thing
It wouldn't have passed inspection because the parking brake doesn't work, the exhaust makes noise and the gauges don't work. That's the only reason. Everything else isn't part of the inspection.
No wonder we sell the Ontario pieces of junk in QC...
Knoxfire, I'd either junk the car and let it just die, or gut it and rebuild it if you can. Things like that are just money pits.
dude huge props for saving the hooptie.I have a 87 Regal in the same condition.I drive my 06 Canyon everyday and play with that on the weekends.I paid $300 for it a year ago and i might have spent that on it since.I like haing it around it case I get the "mod bug".This way i don't destroy my new truck.
besides that FOX BODY NOTCHE'S FOR THE WIN
I ain't callin u a gold digga,but you ain't messin wit a broke cracka
I want to eventually put the 2.3 Turbo engine in it and take it to the track for fun. Just keep it as a weekend junkyard racecar.
And GAM, you're right about Ontario. it's amazing the sheer number of Mustangs that I could get cheap compared to here because they don't pass inspections there, but they would here.
Vive le Quebec and all that crap
With that much crap falling off, broken, leaking, rusted, or just plain missing and the outside looking like crap with ruct and faded paint, I fail to see how the car can "rock"... but as long as you can make it to work and back in one piece I guess its ok...
Sorry for jumping you like that, it's just that with where I work I always here people say @!#$ about how they don't want to put any money into the vehicle, even if it is something that is potentially dangerous.
I can say from experience though, that daily driving it will not be good for the car. I daily drove my Camaro for a year before I got a second vehicle, and in that year I have put alot of money into fixing broken stuff on my car, instead of making it better... you need to just park it, tear it down and see what you have to work with, and go from there. If you have a good solid body/sub-frame, go wild with it man.. build it up and do what you want with it, but with a car like this, you can't just do little things here and there, I have also learned this the hard way. Only way to make it better, is do the whole enchilada at once..
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1983 Camaro Z28
ling427ttvette wrote:Sorry for jumping you like that, it's just that with where I work I always here people say @!#$ about how they don't want to put any money into the vehicle, even if it is something that is potentially dangerous.
I can say from experience though, that daily driving it will not be good for the car. I daily drove my Camaro for a year before I got a second vehicle, and in that year I have put alot of money into fixing broken stuff on my car, instead of making it better... you need to just park it, tear it down and see what you have to work with, and go from there. If you have a good solid body/sub-frame, go wild with it man.. build it up and do what you want with it, but with a car like this, you can't just do little things here and there, I have also learned this the hard way. Only way to make it better, is do the whole enchilada at once..
Well the thing with this car is the rust. The body and subframe aren't trashed yet, but every bolt is rusted in place and either needs to be cut or tapped. It's just too worn to ever be made pretty again. I could throw money like crazy at this thing and it'll still never be a showcar. If I install a homemade 12pt rollcage and chassis reinforcements (Basically bolting everything like the steering system, suspension and gas tank to the rollcage in case the rust progresses) then I won't have to worry about further rust. As it is now it's driveable. The distance I want to go with this thing for the moment is essentially a 5 minute walk away, so it's not like I'll be overburdening it (Also, the real reason behind this is to test the car and find out if anything else has gone wrong. If it's too far gone then I'll just part it and keep the pieces. It's got a pretty good black interior). I'm sure you've worked a lot on cars yourself and you know how it is. You get to know a vehicle. You just instinctively get a feel for when something will bend or break. And I know this Mustang inside and out. She's an ugly little biotch, but she'll get me there. There's a vast difference between a dangerous car and a crap car, and the Mustang is still in crap car category. If there was any problems with the brakes or steering or wheel bearings, this thing would not be on the road. I'm too old to be doing dumb stunts anymore.
Basically I see this car as a nice fun "fast" beater/rat rod. My goal is to install the rollcage like I mentionned about, fix some of the bodywork (or at least get the damn doors to close right) and put in a series of fast engines (probably just swipe the engine and trans out of Crown Vics or use my 2.3 Turbo) to have a little fun driving it. Having a car like your Camaro is awesome (and it is a very nice car) but it's a bummer to always worry that someone will key it or steal it or always have to park it wayyyyy back in the parking lot to make sure some dumba** won't sideswipe it. With the Mustang there are no such worries hehe. I could see a guy taking a leak on it and all I'd do is yell "HEY! THAT'S MY SPOT!"
Knoxfire wrote:Vive le Quebec and all that crap
Yeah.. The province with the 2nd worst roads (after NFLD) and tied for most accidents per capita (tied with ON, but with about 2/3 the people)... Absolutely makes perfect sense to allow whatever rolls to go on the road..
Quebec: Where Swiss cheese is not only for a sandwich, it's okay if your floorboards are too.
Uh... huh...
Quebec:
- Where Gravy, cheese curds and fries is haute cuisine
- Where the legal drinking age, speed limits, red lights and soverignty are just suggestions.
- Where you swear using Church items.
- Where EVERYBODY'S shackin' up.
- Where smoking in church is okay.
- Where Club Super Sexe is an appropriate place to celebrate your anniversaire... But only if your wife is on that night.
- Where you say "TURD" not "THIRD"
- Where doing it doggie style means you can both watch the Habs play.
<3 the Quebec.
So....Quebec is basically Canada's very own Texas?
Nah... Quebecers are usually able to speak their own language properly.
