[The Glademister]

I couldn't resist a $300 914 today. It's a maraschino red '76 2.0L that I had looked at about a month ago. I had passed on it then but today's price was just too tempting. After getting it up on blocks and cleaning out all the junk and leaves... I'm pretty surprised. The rear trunk pan is in great shape. The front trunk pan is just now starting to rust through but may be salvageable. The drivers side floor pan appears to be solid. However, the passenger side is a real mess. That floor pan has a large hole under the seat and that long is terribly rusted on the exterior with no rocker cover at all. The structure is comprised on that side of the car as there's flexing evident in the passenger door. The interior is complete except for one seat cushion, floor carpeting and horn button. The original radio is missing also. The rear interior window seal appears to have held but the exterior seal is shot. I think the state of the firewall will be the decider on if this tub has a chance. That will be revealed when I pull the back pad, interior and exterior insulators. All the glass is original without any cracks.

Mechanically the intake has been pulled (who knows how long) and the air injection holes plugged. But I did find the distributor in the front trunk. It looks like someone replaced the fuel pump under the tank. The exhaust is after market but the headers still have heat exchangers and they appear to be in good shape. All the brake calipers are on the car but the 17mm master cylinder had been pulled (very rusty) and was laying in the trunk also. All the transmission shift linkage is intact. It may have Koni rear shocks evident by the orange color.

Priority is the pull the engine and transmission as those have the most value. If the crank turns by hand, I'll be really happy.