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One GTR, just commuting I believe. Saw at least three Mirage/Summits converted to AWD. Maybe a fourth actually, but I didn't get a chance to scope that one out. Two of them were in pretty rough shape, but I credit the young guys who put them together in their driveways using a box a hand tools. That's alot of work, but a good learning experience, them having to piece-meal cars together with used, dirty parts. But they did it, and they made it to this event One of them said they bought their entire conversion for like $800 (IIRC), or maybe that was for the Mirage and the donor. The AWD transmission was completely blown. One of them worked at a machine shop so I guess they has some tooling like a press and pullers for the trans work. One used all 1G donor parts on his and the other guy said his was all from a 2G. They said it was mostly bolt-on except for the drive shafts, which had to be lengthened 5". Said the tunnel was there alread. Reminded me of when I was 18-20 years old, making only $151 every 15 days. That is some slim pickings. So you just do what you can to keep your stuff running or to look a little better. That usually amounted new plugs, some carb cleaner, spray painting steelies silver, hand painting flames on the side, and jacking up the rear-end using pieces of angle iron attached to the back of the leaf springs. Today, most of the time we call them ricers. I give them kudos for the effort. And yes, sunburn here too.
