Rodimus_Prime
Well-Known Member
Well after 20+ years of dreaming and many months of serious researching and looking, the childhood dream has been realized. I am a Trans Am owner. I got #82 from TC Turbo aka Tony on here who has been an awesome guy to deal with throughout this entire process.
Car was actually brought down on sunday and I immediately spent the rest of the day claybarring it. On monday I went through a real runaround trying to get it taggged because in PA they need a Vin tracing, well to my knowledge the only place its stamped is on the windshield, which is not accessable. I had to have a cop come out and file some form and then it took about a half tank of gas running all over from the title transfer place, dealers, and Penndot. They don't make it very easy to get anything from a private seller thats for sure.
Anyways when all that was done I had to hustle it over to the insurance company in a few min to make my appointment with almost no gas in a car I've never driven before. After that the fun could finally begin, took a few friends out for a spin. I've really fallen in love with this car. Its so easy to drive (I've never owned an automatic), the thing practically drives itself I barely have to use the gas pedal. It takes bumps fairly soft but the steering is quick and precise, its quite nimble for the size of it. The brakes require a bit more pedal pressure than I'm used to.
Its somewhat disappointing I can only go up to 5psi or so without knock, but I just need a chip and injectors and thats easily solved. This car is everything I've dreamed it would be. It needs a few odds and ends but I look forward to making this thing as awesome as it can be.
Pics to come :burnrubber:
Car was actually brought down on sunday and I immediately spent the rest of the day claybarring it. On monday I went through a real runaround trying to get it taggged because in PA they need a Vin tracing, well to my knowledge the only place its stamped is on the windshield, which is not accessable. I had to have a cop come out and file some form and then it took about a half tank of gas running all over from the title transfer place, dealers, and Penndot. They don't make it very easy to get anything from a private seller thats for sure.
Anyways when all that was done I had to hustle it over to the insurance company in a few min to make my appointment with almost no gas in a car I've never driven before. After that the fun could finally begin, took a few friends out for a spin. I've really fallen in love with this car. Its so easy to drive (I've never owned an automatic), the thing practically drives itself I barely have to use the gas pedal. It takes bumps fairly soft but the steering is quick and precise, its quite nimble for the size of it. The brakes require a bit more pedal pressure than I'm used to.
Its somewhat disappointing I can only go up to 5psi or so without knock, but I just need a chip and injectors and thats easily solved. This car is everything I've dreamed it would be. It needs a few odds and ends but I look forward to making this thing as awesome as it can be.
Pics to come :burnrubber:
I ran into that crap with the vin tracing. I took the title into a tag place and they told me to take a piece of paper and trace it with a pencil. I asked the woman if she was smoking crack. I went to another tag place (there is 50 million of them around me) and they put all the paper work thru no questions asked. Sometimes you have to use the smaller places that don't really care. The bigger tag places get anal for some reason.
