Wonder Wedge! Next project?

[1Gab Laser]

A friend of mine just picked up one of these for $400, but it's pretty beat. 330k miles of New England driving. The guy that owned it before did some horrible paint touchups all over the car. It's all flakey and a different shade of white. The body actually doesn't look TOO bad considering the year and mileage, I haven't looked at it too closely but it doesn't look like there's much bondo and just some surface rust.

I think it could be a pretty sick car though. Definitely not something you see much.

First off, who even knows what it is?

I wanna fix it up next year (assuming it doesn't get totaled this winter) and do shows with it and the DSM next to each other. It'd definitely take home some prizes all restored. But I doubt I can convince her to put much money into it. If I can get her to let me restore it I'd definitely keep the DSM just to do shows.

I think it'd be a nice lineup to have that, my DSM, 2 of my friend's MR2s (1991 and 1986) and 86.5 Supra all together, all small (minus the Supra) oldschool sports cars with flip up lights and kinda pointy front ends.

What do you guys think? Worth putting about $700 into? It wouldn't be a full blown resto like the DSM was. Mainly just body work and paint and rims, maybe lower it a little. I'd be willing to do all the work for free (minus parts/supplies of course).

Can't decide which color scheme I like more. The yellow one is really starting to grow on me. I'd definitely go with the rims in the last pic regardless.

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[One Equals Two]

Subaru XT, I guess a little reminiscent of the old TR7's or something. Really, not worth much anything at all in my opinion except for the fact that it's different. I wouldn't drop $15 of gas into it, but that's cause I hated the old Subaru of the family.

If reliability was anything like my father's old Loyale, I'd say it's rank near abysmal. Non turbo, okay, turbocharged, worse than a DSM. Subaru didn't get it right for a while. Non turbo though, is something like 90 hp. And you'd probably score about 22 mpg on it. (This is coming from a Loyale sedan).

But, if you like it, go for the fixing it up. It may turn out to be kind of fun.

Opinion: the height of the Yellow one with the rims make the car. The others are either too high or too small of rims.

 

[1Gab Laser]

Subaru XT, I guess a little reminiscent of the old TR7's or something. Really, not worth much anything at all in my opinion except for the fact that it's different. I wouldn't drop $15 of gas into it, but that's cause I hated the old Subaru of the family.

If reliability was anything like my father's old Loyale, I'd say it's rank near abysmal. Non turbo, okay, turbocharged, worse than a DSM. Subaru didn't get it right for a while. Non turbo though, is something like 90 hp. And you'd probably score about 22 mpg on it. (This is coming from a Loyale sedan).

But, if you like it, go for the fixing it up. It may turn out to be kind of fun.

Opinion: the height of the Yellow one with the rims make the car. The others are either too high or too small of rims.

145HP, it's an XT6. Wouldn't be surprised if it was only making 90 right now with that mileage and just a bandage over a blown head gasket.

She says it gets 30MPG highway.

Here are before/after on my DSM (I've cleaned up the engine bay a lot more since then). This was my first project car, put about 3 grand into it.

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