Re: Just starting out
First of all, let me start with a sincere Thank You to all. I appreciate everyone’s suggestions, recommendations, and support on my endeavor to make my SRT 6 standout like yours. This will be a time project for me as funds come available. But, after I get out of college things will start to move allot faster (the car that is).
Let me start with all the helpful information and suggestions that are provided by everyone on the forum, that are either in my position or have been at one time. I often go on the site and read to see what everyone is doing or have done already. I will most likely be buying most if not all my mod parts new, as the parts on the forum are rather hard to get, unless you are extremely lucky because they go so fast. Don’t get me wrong, this is a good thing, as we are on the forum and all trying to achieve the same results for as little $$$ as possible.
A little background on me, my first car was a two year old 1968 AMC AMX 4 speed with a 390 go pack with a few other mod’s. I had the fastest car in high school not to mention the young ladies (that another story). It helped allot that I had Auto Mechanic class in the afternoon every day. So as funds came available I was able to just pull my car on the lift and do whatever I wanted to my car. Transmission, clutch, brakes, rebuild the engine whatever I wanted to do, and I had a trained mechanic and all the tools available to me. Those days are gone now, except in my sorted little mind. Now days I cannot afford good mopar muscle from back in the day and my knees won’t permit me to attempt a total restoration. So as in those days of the muscle car, I picked another car that has great potential and one that few people have ever seen or got a good look at up close.
So not intending to make this thread to long, I located a Crossfire SRT 6 in St. Louis, Mo. A private owner did not want to, but decided to sell his car, because he did not have the time to appreciate it the way he did when he first bought it. It had 9300 pampered miles of it and was well maintained and cared for. I talked to him and he said he would let it go for $16,500, so I decided to fly out to St. Louis (by myself, no wife) and take a look at it. Well, I took it for a 9 hour, 600 mile test flight back to Pittsburgh Pa. and put it to bed in one of my garages. I wanted to buy a black SRT 6 roadster, but all the ones I found were at dealers and they jacked up the price on them. I have no regrets or complaints’ about settling for a SSB couple and in a year or so I will start may search again for my roadster.
Larry
Last edited by Chief; Jul 15, 2010 at 01:55 PM.