EDIT 2/17/23: Hi all. Kinda facing the music, and I think I'm going to see if anyone wants to grab my project. There's almost no chance I'll be able to get anymore time to work on my 73' for several years. I'd love to finish it, but it's just sitting..over 6 years now. I know it's a half finished project and it would only appeal to a small group of us that are able to do all the work ourselves, but I figured I'd see if anyone is interested. It's a Cali car that's been in my GA garage now for the last 3.5 years. It's a very clean, solid car. I'd like $3500 for it and that includes about $2k in parts and the engine gone through, as well. Let me know if anyone wants pics or videos or anything. Thanks.
Hi all. I'm having a realistic life moment. I've had my 4spd Polaris Bav project for 5-6 years and haven't done anything on it after the first 6 months of ownership and I'm wondering if it should go to someone who will actually finish it. I stripped the whole thing down and sanded a good bit of the paint off, pulled the motor, did a refresh on it (checked for wear, honed the cylinders, new rings, bearings, paint, reassembled, took apart the 86 head and lapped in new valves, new water pump, etc..then wrapped it in plastic. I have just about everything taken apart and labeled in a million baggies. I also gathered a bunch of parts including new ac compressor and condenser for an AC redo, new clutch kit, one of the elusive new front windshield gaskets, rear one, too. rebuild kits for various areas..disassembled the original carbs and rebuilt them. Never ran them rebuilt but I drove the car home when I bought it. I have a set of webers incase I wanted to go that route. I have wheel rings and caps in good driver condition. Chrome sill plates. The blue interior is very nice, minus the driver seat. The passenger and rear seats are in pretty much perfect shape. Carpet is actually nice...faded a bit, but clean. Dash is typical with cracks but not torn apart. I have a ton of parts for it that I'll get info on if anything goes past this post. It was a Cali car, I believe from the start. It was in one family for a very long time and went to the son or nephew when the owner died and then it sat and was sold off. It has a salvage title from a front right corner accident. It took me a while to find the reason it was a salvage title, but it appears to have been very tiny. I assume a new fender was added as it's not damaged. I've had the fenders off and it was a little sheet metal giveaway hidden in there. The ONLY rust on the car is at the leading edge of the trunk and hood. I started cutting it out to patch and is very minor. That's it, otherwise. Very solid. I also have extra newer bmw wheels for it. I'll have to put up a pic of them, can't remember the type. I escaped California 3 years ago and brought it with me to GA where it's basically just sat in the garage waiting for me. I'd still love to finish it but I can't imagine having time until my kids are grown up a lot more... Anyway, I have no idea what it would be worth, obviously this would be great for someone that does the work themselves, but I bought it 5-6 years ago for $3500, and have a couple grand of parts, I think, for it. It ran fine then, but I'm not happy with that..LOL. I'll work on getting pics up if anyone is really interested or just message me and we can talk on the phone. That's all for now. Thanks, guys.
Stephen Z
Hi all. I'm having a realistic life moment. I've had my 4spd Polaris Bav project for 5-6 years and haven't done anything on it after the first 6 months of ownership and I'm wondering if it should go to someone who will actually finish it. I stripped the whole thing down and sanded a good bit of the paint off, pulled the motor, did a refresh on it (checked for wear, honed the cylinders, new rings, bearings, paint, reassembled, took apart the 86 head and lapped in new valves, new water pump, etc..then wrapped it in plastic. I have just about everything taken apart and labeled in a million baggies. I also gathered a bunch of parts including new ac compressor and condenser for an AC redo, new clutch kit, one of the elusive new front windshield gaskets, rear one, too. rebuild kits for various areas..disassembled the original carbs and rebuilt them. Never ran them rebuilt but I drove the car home when I bought it. I have a set of webers incase I wanted to go that route. I have wheel rings and caps in good driver condition. Chrome sill plates. The blue interior is very nice, minus the driver seat. The passenger and rear seats are in pretty much perfect shape. Carpet is actually nice...faded a bit, but clean. Dash is typical with cracks but not torn apart. I have a ton of parts for it that I'll get info on if anything goes past this post. It was a Cali car, I believe from the start. It was in one family for a very long time and went to the son or nephew when the owner died and then it sat and was sold off. It has a salvage title from a front right corner accident. It took me a while to find the reason it was a salvage title, but it appears to have been very tiny. I assume a new fender was added as it's not damaged. I've had the fenders off and it was a little sheet metal giveaway hidden in there. The ONLY rust on the car is at the leading edge of the trunk and hood. I started cutting it out to patch and is very minor. That's it, otherwise. Very solid. I also have extra newer bmw wheels for it. I'll have to put up a pic of them, can't remember the type. I escaped California 3 years ago and brought it with me to GA where it's basically just sat in the garage waiting for me. I'd still love to finish it but I can't imagine having time until my kids are grown up a lot more... Anyway, I have no idea what it would be worth, obviously this would be great for someone that does the work themselves, but I bought it 5-6 years ago for $3500, and have a couple grand of parts, I think, for it. It ran fine then, but I'm not happy with that..LOL. I'll work on getting pics up if anyone is really interested or just message me and we can talk on the phone. That's all for now. Thanks, guys.
Stephen Z
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. It's just garage space, at this point..
