Daily driver: 1999 Saturn SL. 1.9L SOHC I4, 4 speed slushbox. Base model with air conditioning and an aftermarket stereo the people I bought it from installed themselves. (I had to take it all apart and re-install it this past spring because they did a real crappy job.
The stupid thing was held in with metal tabs, and the entire center of the dash rattled all the bloody time. Eventually it got to the point where it had to be put back together right using JB Weld and some black gasket-in-a-tube.) It was obviously in an accident sometime before I got it because the headlights are a little 'off' and the front bumper has chunks missing, so eventually when I have enough time/money/ambition I'll go to the scrapyard and get the front bumper, bumper cover, and plastic bumper core from an SL2 or SW2 (the nicer models), paint them with some Dupli-Color bumper paint (to match the repainted back bumper) and throw them on there. (Even the coupe models are the same underneath, but an SC front end swap would mean finding a hood and fenders as well.) It will still look better while adding a place for fog lights. (Wire them up with a relay to turn on with the parking lights and high beams.) It's only got 83k on it. Other than that it's bone stock, so if you find any picture of a green one with black bumpers you know what it looks like.
Project / yard beater / whatever: 1974 Dodge D200. 225 slant-6, really low 4 speed manual, 4.1 (posi?) gear set in a Dayna 60 rear axle. Still has almost all the original parts. It drives under its own power (that engine is
unstoppable), in fact we used it to haul some wood last year. Obviously it needs a LOT of work, since it's been sitting in the yard since 1989. No accessories, though it does have power steering and an aftermarket Roadmaster AM/FM stereo cassette hooled up to some cheap speakers mounted behind the seat. (It probably came with an AM only radio, since it just has 1 speaker in the dash, and it's shot.) Most of the things I hope to do in the near future are just damage control. (Fixing leaks, welding the exhaust manifold back together, scraping off the grime to not hear complaints about it, etc.) The passenger side door works fine, but the skin and bottom are shot because it crashed into a tree a long time ago (before we got it in '85). The cab corner's pretty rough, and the front of the bed has a huge dent in it from where it hit. (It's about 10 by 14 inches, and 3 inches deep.) It needs a laundry list of parts, like new floor pans, new rear brakes, a passenger side door, passenger side bed skin, PCV valve, ignition coil, air filter, new exhaust from the manifold back, high beam switch, emergency flasher switch, various lights, some interior switches, glove box door, passenger side mirror, power steering belt, fan belt, spark plugs, weatherstripping, driver's side window crank handle... And that's just to make it street legal, never mind making it look good!
Finding parts is relatively easy because Chrysler put that engine in basically everything, but finding body panels is harder because it wasn't as popular as the Ford F series and Chevy C/K. You have to look for Plymouth Trailduster parts; they're basically the same thing except the Trailduster was a 2 door SUV.
i only paid 600$
Nice! How many miles are on it?
What's up with the M3 badge? That's not an M3!
Lose the headlight 'eyelids', they're rice.
Why is the passenger side wiper blade missing? Sorry but it's a little rice.
The only thing I'd watch out for is if the person you bought it from drove it really hard (half the time ricer 'improvements' = tried to race it). Change the oil, flush the coolant, replace the transmission oil, replace (or at least clean and re-gap) the plugs, check for leaks, you know do all the regular maintenance stuff.
