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Old 06-20-2020, 06:55 PM
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After almost a decade, a 1970 TA is back in my garage. I actually tried to buy this car back in 2018 from Gary F. out in CA. The deal didn’t go through (my fault) but he wound up selling it to a dealer here in NJ. What are the chances? The dealer sold the car to another NJ resident last year, who decided he wanted to get a Bentley for his wife, so it wound up back in the dealer’s showroom on consignment. What are the chances? A car I tried to buy that was 3000 miles away winds up 45 min from me. Strange.

Anyway, car is 100% numbers matching. Gary repainted it and redid the motor back in 2009. I’ll post some more pictures. I just brought the car home today. The dealer put on larger, aftermarket honeycomb wheels with modern rubber, but I have the original JW wheels with Polyglas tires that Gary ran. He also added the ‘RAM AIR’ decals to the shaker. I plan on running the Rally II wheels (and removing the decals). Am super excited to have a mirror image of my old TA. I even still have my old TA plates and once NJ DMV opens again, plan on trying to get those reassigned to this car.





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Old 06-20-2020, 07:16 PM
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Congrats, sounds like this car was meant to be yours.

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Well done.
Beautiful car.

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Old 06-20-2020, 08:12 PM
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Fantastic - congrats!
These cars do get into your blood once you've owned one, don't they...

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Old 06-20-2020, 08:45 PM
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Very nice!

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Very cool!

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Old 06-20-2020, 10:25 PM
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Nice car and glad it worked our for you !

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Old 06-20-2020, 11:01 PM
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Sounds like a great car.
Maybe better than the other one you had before.

Congrats on finding such a nice one
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I like the car and I like the ram air decals even though they didn't come on it

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Congrats !! Looks like a sharp car...

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sweet score !!!

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Looks like a great cat. I know many prefer the Blue cars but my favorite are the White cars. Enjoy.

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Awesome! Great story!!

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Beautiful car, congrats! Crazy story, I guess it was meant to be. I went 10 yrs without a GTO when I sold my 70 until I got my 69. Thought about it every day until I got it, I'm sure you did too.

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Great looks car! The wheels look really good, but having the originals is icing on the cake!

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Very nice . looking forward to more pics .

I like the bigger wheels with modern tires . more so on lowered cars . JMO

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wow!
It sounds like it was just meant to be yours

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