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Location:
GoldCoast/Brisbane
Registered:
May 2002
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 SPEEDCORE buys AE86
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Tue, 21 May 2002 04:33
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Hi guys... well just as the title says, I bought an '85 Sprinter just waiting for the weekend so I can go pick the car up. I spent like over an hour looking over the whole car for rust ripping up carpets and getting the old magnet out  , bent rails everything really...only found 2 spots of rust both on the inside corners of the rear hatch (is this a common thing on sprinters??)
The floors did not have any surface rust, wheelwell was also clean as. The panels are smooth as too. Good thing to was it had the original paint (heavily faded and undercoat showing in some areas) so any repairs with the dreaded BOG or fiberglass could be easily spotted, but there were none.
The suspension is shagged...but i was wanting to replace it anyways. Fuck the car got floaty at only 120km....and now I know what you guys mean by the 4A-C boat anchor  dog of an engine...I thought I was gonna kill it! 
The interior is in fair condition but my g/f's uncle is an excellent auto upholsterer so he will take care of that. The rims are the original alloys and for some reason I like their weird 80's styling so I think I will eventually be using them...unless I fit bigger breaks that the rims will not fit over them. But yeah overall a very original car!
So yeah plan is:
fresh paint,
suspension ,
engine,
interior,
breaks.
Give me some ideas on engine, paint colour (was wanting to go orange with a shitload of gold pearl) and how to and what to strip out of the car before I send it to the panelbeaters (ie. glass, engine, interior etc) in order to save $$$ on labour for stripping the car themselves.
Ok thanks guys, soz for the length of this thing, but as Big Kev would say.......I'M EXCITED!!! 
Cheers,
ADRIAN!
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