As none of you know, I'm selling my 92 5MT SS. She's been the pride and joy of my vehicular arsenal. I had decided to move on to a little junker GL wagon if I could find one and put a dent in my bike loan. I’m looking though the thrifty nickel ads the other day and I see an ad in there for a 91 Legacy Sport Sedan that needs T.L.C. Asking price $1,750. I WAS in the market for a beater, but I can’t betray my love of an abused and neglected sport sedan. I took a look at it today and low and behold she did need some work. Rust around the fenders, paint in “marginal” condition, doesn’t run (needs a battery), clean interior, typical rip in the so called leather on the drivers seat, factory CD player, 200K miles, original turbo engine cover, a lightweight pulley, and cross drilled rotors all around. I had pulled up in my legacy and he comes out to ask me, “What kind of car is that”. I get that a lot for some reason. Anyways, I offer him $850 and her comes back with an offer of $900 in one hour. So, I bought it and plan on picking up my Rio Red wonder on Friday. PS: It's finally got fu*king air condtioning. Yip, yip, yip, yahoo.
So the restoration begins, again.
I've got some confliting opinions on what I want to do with this car.
Option 1
It's going to get the body work done and repainted, but I don't know if I want to do away with the chrome door handles and other chrome strips. I really hate chrome unless the wheels are chrome to boot. Thus, I was thinking to get the stock wheels polished to a mirror finish and accent the chrome strips and legacy badge under the little window in the rear.
Option 2
Do the body work, but de-badge the little legacy sign, paint over the door handles, paint over the chrome in black, and then put some springs and struts in with a set of those rare 5 spoke 2.5RS wheels in gold.
Option 3
Do the body and paint and restore it to as close as I can to showroom conditon leaving everything original.
Option 4
Run the shit out of the car the way it is untill it blows up and then go all out rebuilding the engine while leaving the outside alone.
