1971 2800CSA vin-2280504. Built on March 4, 1971 and delivered to Hoffman motors in NY on April 26, 1971. Originally polaris 060 but was repainted chamonix 085 over 10 years ago maybe longer. My friend purchased it over 10 years ago from someone in Southern Cali. and the restoration was done by the previous owner. No mods or restoring was done by my friend who basically just drove it and did the normal maintenance. It was his daily driver for a couple of years, until he couldn't find the guy who would pass smog for him and just parked it in his garage for the last 6 years. Lucky for me Nevada just changed the registration rules for classic plates where you didn't need to smog.
For the last 3 weeks since I purchased this car, I've been just doing some TLC to it and been driving it off and on. Even though it sat for over 6 years, it started right up after my friend flushed the gas tank. I just recently changed the points over to a Pertronix, and also replaced all the plugs with NGKs and bosch wires. I made a mistake of taking out the distributor when installing the Pertronix and it took me 4 days to figure out the TDC and get my car to start. I followed the advice from this forum to set the rotor at about 8 o'clock position when in TDC but still my car would not start. Then reinstalled old points and reset TDC and finally it started but only when I set the rotor at the 9 o'clock position. Car now starts up fine and runs good but still has a slight shake. Is this normal or should my engine be really smooth at idle? Also car feels a little sluggish on acceleration, car has hard time going pass 4,000 rpm.
My 2800CSA has the stock A/C and it runs fine for sitting over 6 years. Only thing is that it kinda overheats my engine in stop and go traffic. Needle goes up to about 3/4 mark in temp gauge. Also the fuel gauge needle sits between the 3/4 and full mark even when I fill the tank up with gas. My tachometer is working fine but the speedometer is very jumpy and shows that I'm at 120mph when I'm only going 35mph. I checked the speedo cable connection at tranny and noticed that the bolt holding cable end will not go all the way in and was only safety wired in. There is some oil leaking from this area as well. Since the bolt won't thread in with the speedo cable inserted, I just removed cable and safety wired it to frame temporarily and been using my gps navigation to show how fast I'm going.
Overall condition of vehicle is very good with minimal rust, maybe it had to do with stored in this dry desert environment. Only rust I could find was on trunk lid where the 2800CS emblem sits. Looks like my friend drove vehicle even in the rain and somehow water got into the lid area where emblem sits and there is some rusting. I checked the front bumper area and the rockers had no rust. I also looked in the trunk where the shock towers are at and no rust as well. Guess I lucked out with this CS.
Here is my new baby after I gave it a really good wash, polish, and waxing.
Still has the original Hella rally lights and they still work fine.
Cleaned up the interior a bit but the wood on doors need to be refinished or replaced. The dry desert climate has cracked and peeled them. But the leather seats are in excellent condition with now cracks or rips. Anyone seen this steering Fittipaldi wheel use on a CS before?
For the last 3 weeks since I purchased this car, I've been just doing some TLC to it and been driving it off and on. Even though it sat for over 6 years, it started right up after my friend flushed the gas tank. I just recently changed the points over to a Pertronix, and also replaced all the plugs with NGKs and bosch wires. I made a mistake of taking out the distributor when installing the Pertronix and it took me 4 days to figure out the TDC and get my car to start. I followed the advice from this forum to set the rotor at about 8 o'clock position when in TDC but still my car would not start. Then reinstalled old points and reset TDC and finally it started but only when I set the rotor at the 9 o'clock position. Car now starts up fine and runs good but still has a slight shake. Is this normal or should my engine be really smooth at idle? Also car feels a little sluggish on acceleration, car has hard time going pass 4,000 rpm.
My 2800CSA has the stock A/C and it runs fine for sitting over 6 years. Only thing is that it kinda overheats my engine in stop and go traffic. Needle goes up to about 3/4 mark in temp gauge. Also the fuel gauge needle sits between the 3/4 and full mark even when I fill the tank up with gas. My tachometer is working fine but the speedometer is very jumpy and shows that I'm at 120mph when I'm only going 35mph. I checked the speedo cable connection at tranny and noticed that the bolt holding cable end will not go all the way in and was only safety wired in. There is some oil leaking from this area as well. Since the bolt won't thread in with the speedo cable inserted, I just removed cable and safety wired it to frame temporarily and been using my gps navigation to show how fast I'm going.
Overall condition of vehicle is very good with minimal rust, maybe it had to do with stored in this dry desert environment. Only rust I could find was on trunk lid where the 2800CS emblem sits. Looks like my friend drove vehicle even in the rain and somehow water got into the lid area where emblem sits and there is some rusting. I checked the front bumper area and the rockers had no rust. I also looked in the trunk where the shock towers are at and no rust as well. Guess I lucked out with this CS.
Here is my new baby after I gave it a really good wash, polish, and waxing.
Still has the original Hella rally lights and they still work fine.
Cleaned up the interior a bit but the wood on doors need to be refinished or replaced. The dry desert climate has cracked and peeled them. But the leather seats are in excellent condition with now cracks or rips. Anyone seen this steering Fittipaldi wheel use on a CS before?
