Dark_Horse
Well-known member
Have owned 2 DSM's prior, so I knew what I was getting myself into.
Picked up 455/1000 in the beginning of August from TX and drove it 1,000 miles back to Colorado. Car lived it's whole life in New Mexico and Texas. The car is BONE stock, never been modified. From what history I've gathered, the engine was rebuilt at some point in the last couple of years, but I don't know much more than that. The car is in great shape! I've tried to find rust, but it's practically non-existant.
On the way back from TX, she made it almost all the way to my house. About 40 miles from my house, the exhaust broke right in front of the catalytic converter and started dragging on the ground. Pulled off to the side of the road and had to get a tow truck to get it the rest of the way home.
Besides fixing the exhaust, it does need a bit of work. When I picked it up, it was missing the passenger sun visor clip, drivers side fog light and battery tie-down and the A/C needs to be converted to R133. The drivers rear door also was dented from where it appears that it was hit at very low speeds...Just enough to dent the rear door a little bit. I'm also trying to figure out why the accelerator is so hard to press down. It's either the throttle body, or the throttle cable. I've got a spare TB, so hopefully that'll fix the problem. It's also my hope that fixing the accelerator issue will fix the erratic idle. The shocks/springs could also stand to be replaced.
So far, I have replaced the sun visor clip, fog light and I bought a rear door that just needs to be repainted to match the Summit White.
Plans are to fix the exhaust, radio, accelerator pedal problem, convert A/C to R133, replace the broken antenna, replace the shocks/springs and repaint the new rear door I picked up. That should have her back to damn near perfect.
Picked up 455/1000 in the beginning of August from TX and drove it 1,000 miles back to Colorado. Car lived it's whole life in New Mexico and Texas. The car is BONE stock, never been modified. From what history I've gathered, the engine was rebuilt at some point in the last couple of years, but I don't know much more than that. The car is in great shape! I've tried to find rust, but it's practically non-existant.
On the way back from TX, she made it almost all the way to my house. About 40 miles from my house, the exhaust broke right in front of the catalytic converter and started dragging on the ground. Pulled off to the side of the road and had to get a tow truck to get it the rest of the way home.
Besides fixing the exhaust, it does need a bit of work. When I picked it up, it was missing the passenger sun visor clip, drivers side fog light and battery tie-down and the A/C needs to be converted to R133. The drivers rear door also was dented from where it appears that it was hit at very low speeds...Just enough to dent the rear door a little bit. I'm also trying to figure out why the accelerator is so hard to press down. It's either the throttle body, or the throttle cable. I've got a spare TB, so hopefully that'll fix the problem. It's also my hope that fixing the accelerator issue will fix the erratic idle. The shocks/springs could also stand to be replaced.
So far, I have replaced the sun visor clip, fog light and I bought a rear door that just needs to be repainted to match the Summit White.
Plans are to fix the exhaust, radio, accelerator pedal problem, convert A/C to R133, replace the broken antenna, replace the shocks/springs and repaint the new rear door I picked up. That should have her back to damn near perfect.