Lil' Explanation

Alex Kowalski hypereutectic1 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 1 14:19:56 PST 2011


For everyone who wondered about the car and the status of the car:

 The car is not ultra low mile but it was maintained by an Air Force Captain
from Pennsylvania, where I bought it from.  You could see the nuclear
reactor from his back yard.  I hauled it back here to Massachusetts and
intended to replace the engine but haven't had the chance.  It has been
sitting for the better part of 3 years, untouched.  The paint is a bit
faded, but nothing else is wrong with the car.  I'm in Holland,
Massachusetts and the car has been sitting here for a couple of years.  It
has a blown head gasket from when I bought it.  I intended to replace the
engine, and I have a *complete* spare MC1 with turbo and wastegate.  I also
have a complete 016 transmission and the subframes, plus the front
suspension uprights.  The car itself is a late 85' - 86' 5KCSTQ with Fuchs
and at the time new brakes.  It's fundamentally in great shape.  All of the
ancillary parts on the car are in great condition the engine will need a new
head at the very least.  I started it and drove it onto the trailer to bring
it here; it's not seized - it's a blown head gasket.

I have a scrap guy who keeps calling me every other day to let him come and
melt it down into pieces.  The entire lot of stuff is going to go one way or
the other in the next 30 days.  I am in MA right on the border of CT, Exit
74 on I-84 and about 2.3 miles thereafter.  The car is sitting at the top of
my parking lot and the engine is inside, where it has been wrapped in
plastic for the past 2.5 years.

You will not be able to drive the car as new without a really nice and
difficult rebuffing effort.

You can see the car here, if you zoom in:

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=122+Mashapaug+Rd,+Holland,+Hampden,+Massachusetts+01521&ll=42.057333,-72.161219&spn=0.000879,0.001629&t=h&z=20

It's the red car next to the building, seen from the satellite.

A


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