I put resoration in quotes because I'm not really restoring the car as I am just fixing it up.
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I also wanted to add a little history of the car.. I bought it right after gradutation in 1993. It was my first cool car and I was excited. I bought it off a good friend of mine. I drove it all the time during the summer cruising Hy 100 etc. I did store it winters. I drove it up to about 190k miles before I put in a 140mph dash cluster. Now the car has roughly 205-210k miles. Then the problems started. Altenators, starters, overheating, and transmissions galore. I put more than 5 alts, 7 transmissions and a bunch of batteries and 2 engines. Blew the radiator twice. This was all in the first 5 years. Then about 7 years ago I got hit by a punk who ran a red light. Cough me at 40mph in the rear passenger side tire and caved in the rear quater. With some battling with his insurance company, they ended up fixing it and I paid the body shop extra to repaint it. I bought my first Vette 4 years later and due to all the problems with the T/A, I slowly stopped driving it. About 3-4 years ago , I pretty much stopped driving it all together due to the problems. I could not bring myself to sell it, so I just hung on to it for when I decise to fix it up. So last year it started.
It all started because I wanted to put in a TBI motor and get rid of the carb 305. I bought a 89 Rs Camaro as the donor car. I took out the engine, trans, every wire in the wiring harness, fuel tank, a lot of the screws and bolts from the interior, and the T-tops just to have a spare set.
I thought the Camaro was a 305 TBI with 120k miles, but to my suprise, I opened the engine and discovered it was a 350 4 bolt that appears to be freshly rebuilt. The valves were still shiny, no gunk anywhere, and there was still crosshatching on the cylinders. Bonus!!
So I started buy taking the engine out of my T/A and cleaned up the engine compartment for a paint job.
Here it was before:
So i degreased it,sanded it down and got some color matching paint from Milwaukee paint and painted it up: