I polished a little my old daily driver and couldn't resist to do some photoshoot, it's cellphone quality but i promise that someday I'll do better

(Soon it will hit 200k miles )

looks good for pushing 1/4 century!!

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poverty forces one to do unorthodox things

2000 SSEi
past rides:
1996 SSEi
1992 GTP
1987 Grand Am

Wygląda wspaniale!

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-Car Guy Carl
"Penelope" - 2003 SLE - 247k Miles
"Sydney" - 2000 Honda S2000 - 98k miles

Dziękuję :D

Better part of the story is that i got her for like 750 bucks with new tyres and half of the tank
Still, she needs some repairs but that's nothing i can't do

That is quite a deal! Should serve you for quite some time.

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-Car Guy Carl
"Penelope" - 2003 SLE - 247k Miles
"Sydney" - 2000 Honda S2000 - 98k miles

Nice find! Looks great for the miles!

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'93 SSE "Guinevere" RIP 1993 - 2019
'01 SSEi "Chloe" Mods: Intense FWI | GenV | WBS Intercooled | 3.2 MPS | 1.9 YT Rockers | SSAC Headers | N* TB | TEP Trans | 3.29 FDR | Torsen LSD
DTM Tuned | Dual AeroForce | Solid Mounts | 255 Walbro Pump | Fuel Logs | GXP STB & Sway Bars | CSS Lowering Springs | GXP Brakes | Disabled DRL
Magnaflow Mufflers | Magnaflow Cat | GXP Seats & Trim | 35 % Tint | Cleared & Tinted Tails | repinS Retrofited Morimoto Mini H1 | 19" GT500 Wheels
'09 G8 GT "Abigail" Mods: Rotofab | LS3 Heads, Intake & Cam | Kooks LT | Solo Exhaust | Tien Springs w/ GXP Struts | Whiteline Swaybars | BMR Subframe Connectors
Achievements: Guinevere - 264k mi | 16.27 @ 84.10mph | March '11 COTM :: Chloe - 223k mi | 13.85 @ 102mph | January '09 COTM :: Abigail - 192k mi | 12.85 @ 112mph

Gentlemen, we did it!

Just don't look at the yellow words :D

Tommorow I will start uploading photos step by step of removing rust from body. But in a meanwhile here's my latest photo of the most stunning dashboard ever made

As I said, I went to check out how much work my SSE needs and I'm terrified of amount of work needed to get rid of rust I'm scared mainly about subframe mount, is it worth fixing?

Here is an album:

http://imgur.com/gallery/NRsqm

The rust pictured doesn't seem too bad, just the hole in the fenderwell.

The big question is whether or not rust is consuming structural parts of the car, and whats going on underneath. That is the ultimate question.

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~Randall~


1993 Buick Park Avenue - 197k - Some odds and ends done - Simply won't die
1994 Buick Regal - 78k - Bone stock - Always ready for a good kicking
1990 Oldsmobile 88 - Gone to a better place

Yeah, but I'm worried mostly about subframe mounting point:



What I know is that whole car underneath went through rebuilding a couple years ago, but some of the untouched parts of chassiss rusted.

I cleaned that black paint and i'm getting ready to stick some red foil on them. That's the only way to give them "restored" look

Today I began working with rust

Started with this:





This freaking piece of concrete-resin-whatever-it-is came from mudguard. It weighed almost 2 pounds!



After 4 hours I came to this state. Both rear doors are done and primed + fender at one side is waiting for some new steel and welding

I'm digging what you were going for in the tail lights. I was thinking of doing something similar.

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WHITE WHINE - 1992 SSE Supercharged 236.26 ci (.040 Over) 15.090 at 90.2 MPH on old engine w/ slipping trans & melted O2 sensor - Gen 3 M62 and matching TB, Gen 2 Pully, Zillamotorsports Ported LIM, YT 1.72 Roller Rockers, SII FPR & Injectors, Hypertech Thermomaster chip w/ 160 Thermo, TransGo Shift Kit, Infinity/Pioneer Speakers & a 10" Alpine Type R Sub, all the watts, 140 amp Alternator, Ricepipe CAI w/ heatshield, Pilot Angel Eye Foglights, Clear Corners, '02 17" Chrome Bent 5's, Magnaflow F-Body Muffler and Hi-flo Cat, Ceramic Coated Ported Exhaust Manifolds, Fan Override, Monroe Reflex struts, red calipers
2009 G8 GT - Sport Red Metallic, loaded, SOLO Axlebacks, Rotofab Intake, Tuned, autodim mirror, removed intake manifold cover, HSV GTS triple gauge pod, two tone red-hot shifter and HSV SuperSport steering wheel, GXP rear sway bar and diffuser, 3.45 diff and various Camaro suspension bits, LED Taillights

Not scared! Hell ya on the rust repair so far.

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95 SLE... a keeper. 241k miles. Low and Slow.
97 BMW 528i
98 Infiniti vq35'd i30: 13.3@104mph, 30MPG Hwy (RIP)
02 Jag X-type
03 BMW M5
05 Chevy Cobalt LS
07 Infiniti G35s 6MT (Sold)
07 Ducati Monster S2R 800 with DS1000 swap
83 Yamaha IT175K
72 Yamaha DS7: '74 RD250 swap, JL chambers

Info on dropping a 92-99: Here.

Progress! It's not finished obviously but I will keep going day by day I'm a little proud of myself,
that's my first time making fender by my own hand!

It's going on Two days ago started working on rear right wheel well. At the beggining it looked fine but it turned out to be imposed with a thick layer of fiberglass-resin. When I peeled it off huge amount of rusty holes showed up and ultimately I had to cut off probably like 60-70% total surface of wheel well
Unfortunatelly I don't have any pics from removing rust, but you can see how much steel I had to use... But luckily all structural parts of the body is not touched by rust.

I'm going to finish that well and lay on it some kind of rubber preservative so my repairs will not be visible









Remaining hole



Bonus picture!