Shawno, I looked for a 3.2 for about a year, most of what I saw was in the $5K-7K range, but always chickened out 'cause I had no way of knowing what shape the internals were in. Was scanning ebay end of 2000 for an engine and spotted the red car, an '84 Carrera, first year for the 3.2. The bid at the time was ~$2600. That got my attention, and the more I thought about it, the more sense it made, 'cause I knew there would be other useful stuff to salvage, tho the job got that much bigger. Final bid was in the low $5K range, was first ebay transaction for me and the seller. The car was close enough to go inspect before I bid; would not have risked that kind of $$$ otherwise. Also figured the engine must have been running pretty well to propel the car into whatever it whacked, everything but the rear deck lid was distorted
. Think I got real lucky here, offset the stellar price I paid for the teener.
JP, the paint is original, "sunflower yellow", tho I think the rear lid has been repainted. Plenty of little scratches and divots if you look close. Adds "character". Don't know how the tires (205's)will hold up yet, its first D/E is 16 days, 19 hours, and 15 minutes away. I will probably flare the car eventually like you did on your car, another fine example of a "fast yellow" teener by the way (nice clean garage floor too!). By the way, I painted my front trunk floor with a rattle can prepared by my local auto parts store (which is why it looks so clean). Dead on match - the wheel domes are the original color. There is a shop in MI(?) that will match to a sample, ie a headlight cover. Did you save enough paint from your sandblasting ordeal to do up your flares?