79 Regal as a spring summer fall call

[VinylxScratches]

I came across this car, looks pretty amazing. How much of a hassle would it be for someone that can change his own brakes and oil changes to have such a old car? I want to learn about cars more.


http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Othe...6a2QQitemZ230518785698QQptZUSQ5fCarsQ5fTrucks

I live in ILL so I think I'd trust the buyer and believe it's fine... I haven't bought a car since I was 16, 25 now and still drive the same one and will continue to since I'd like to have this as a hobby car.

 

[DivideBYZero]

Sweet looking machine. Don't like the custom dash, but I'm sure it's better than the stock version.

 

[IcePickFreak]

It's a great car to learn on IMO. I had an 84 Cutlass (same G-Body chassis) way back in the day that ended up with a SBC 0.030 over and swapped in a M20 Muncie using pedals/linkage from a Chevy Malibu. Parts are very cheap so makes it much easier to learn on and it's a very straightforward chassis design. I had numerous friends with Regals/T-types, Cutlasses, Monte Carlos, Grand Prixs in that generation chassis, they're great cars to learn on and to have as a secondary car to play around with on a budget. Actually, I'd take a 79 Regal Arizona car lol.

 

[LordMorpheus]

That car looks totally awesome.

 

[RU482]

interesting manual to power window conversion.

paint job looks nice

 

[LTC8K6]

interesting manual to power window conversion.

paint job looks nice

Not sure what that black knob thing is on the door. I thought it was a tweeter. Looks too close to the dash to be the crank handle opening. You wouldn't be able to turn the crank with the door closed.

 

[Homer Simpson]

not too shabby. g-body's are definitely great cars to learn on. as old as they are, still plentiful and parts are cheap. I've owned 4 g-body's (84 cutlass, 85 442, 87 Monte SS, 87 GN) and still have the GN. im not a huge fan of the 78-80 body styles, but aside from sheetmetal, everything else from 78-87 (or 88 if u want to be picky about the 88 model year cars that were actually built alongside the 87's) is interchangeable for the most part. picture only tell so much, but they look good in this case. def check it out in person and drive it before handing over the cash but $5500 for what looks to be significant work is a great deal.

 

[Zap]

interesting manual to power window conversion.

JC Whitney FTW!

 

[LTC8K6]

Yeah, those are factory power windows as far as I can tell from looking at other 79 regal pics. The round things are his tweeters.

 

[Malak]

Buy it and don't look back.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Buy it and don't look back.

:thumbsup:

Guessing somebody put WAY more than 5 grand in that one, and now just need to unload it

 

[IcePickFreak]

Yeah the power windows were in the door like that from the factory, the tweeter no. The upper door panel isn't factory though.