About to buy a 5000s beater for US$300.

[Scott DeWitt]

you'll spend ten times that amount fixing it.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eduardo Kaftanski" <eduardo at linuxcenterla.com>
To: <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 11:03 PM
Subject: About to buy a 5000s beater for US$300.


>
> Any recomendations? Yes, I know I am buying a very beated up car. Non
> runner, partly dissassembled KEJetronic, leaky sunroof, etc.
>
> Good part? Comes with a spare engine, complete and a spare transmission
> with seized differential. I am a decent mechanic, having mantained
> my own cars the last 15 years and rebuilt a pair of VW engines...
>
> I plan on converting it to MegaSquirt and try to partly restore it
> to 'runnning beater' status and enjoy it... its a 1986 US-Spec 5000s.
>
> Only part I cannot get easily is a windshield. How difficult is to
> get one? Shipped?
>
> THanks.
>
> -- 
> Eduardo Kaftanski
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