Originally Posted by
Laffs
I bought it in 06 because the cars I wanted (LS Fbody, SN95 Cobra or a 99-04 GT) cost double to to acquire and I was a fairly broke University student. Then I sold it in 2008 because I had spent basically my entire ownership fixing wiring gremlins related to previous owner including continually melting fuel pump relays, fuel pumped that burned out due to staying hot randomly, and intermittent loss of all power that resulted in having to replace every component of the ignition system. Once that was fixed I then spent $$$$ doing full magnaflow exhaust, y pipe, long tubes, cold air, gears and tuning along with buying full BMR suspension, Llyod Elliot stage 2 ported heads and intake with a comp CC306 cam to install that winter. It promptly rewarded me by dying out for no reason in a McDonald drive-thru and not starting so I had to push it through at which point it started up fine. This was in addition to living with no AC because previous owner deleted further compounding my frustrations. During this time I got to drive a friends full bolt on 99 GT and said hooooooly fuck is this better than my POS, fuck it I'll take a loan if I have to.
I sold the parts for what I paid for them and fire-sale'd the car for 5-6k. Since then I know of at least 4 owners since me. I have ZERO regrets selling it and the only way I'd buy it back would be for sub 3k to try and make a drag car out of it but even then I don't ever find myself missing it and thinking about summers under a glass T-top with no AC wondering if that was a normal sound or a "youre fucked bud" sound makes my blood pressure spike.