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Old 09-02-2016, 06:55 PM
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That is a pretty neat car. I have never seen a Formula with 15" wheels. I have seen several early Formulas with manual disc brakes, including the Lucy Blue 70 Formula I sold a few years ago. It had 14" poverty caps.

If you decide to restore it, let me know. I have a very rough 70 T/A automatic with all matching numbers drivetrain, but the body is extremely rough. I stripped it many years ago, and it has a late set of JWs in very nice shape.
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they are both such special cars, but if you need to pick one to restore and one to sell, then keeping the Atoll Blue car with the M-21 and 3.73's is the way I'd go too. That color with a set of nicely restored JW's with no trim rings and it's other options will be about as good as it gets in the Formula world!


Lack of trim rings is not a JW/15" wheel thing, it's a Trans Am thing (although the rings were optional even on T/As). A Formula ordered with Rally's would have had rings, regardless of 14" or 15" size.

JWs (and KRs/KNs...) do look especially good without rings, though!




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Old 03-15-2017, 10:15 AM
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Quick up date on the blue car since October it has had new quarters, drops, trunk floor, complete passenger compartment floors front to back, outer wheels house, front fenders repaired, and doors redone. It's all cut in ready for assembly and then paint.
There are a lot of people on this board to thank for all the behind the scenes help. I believe they know who they are because there PM boxes are full with all my questions
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Old 03-15-2017, 10:23 AM
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Nice progress!

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Looking good, Pete. Bet you can't wait to bring it home.

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Looks great

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Old 03-15-2017, 08:42 PM
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Nice!

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Old 03-15-2017, 08:56 PM
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Looking good, Pete. Bet you can't wait to bring it home.
That's for sure!

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Looks good

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Awesome work!

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Congrats!! Will be a stunning Formula when completed. Just curious did you have to sell the other one?

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Old 03-16-2017, 08:09 AM
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Yes it is sold. Here are a few more pic before it got this far
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:^o........

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Old 05-22-2017, 07:18 AM
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All buffed out
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Very nice Pete! Dennis

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Looks fantastic!

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That color looks so good on these cars. Congrats!

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Old 05-22-2017, 08:49 AM
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Yes Pete it's getting good treatment! Great color too!

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I hope to not annoy anyone here, but having recently created a (unintentional new) thread about the blue car, I am left wondering the where abouts of the gold car;
Lack of gauges aside, it was very well appointed - it actually had console and power brakes over the blue cars chrome dressup and recessed wipers...

So, does anyone know where the gold car is these days?

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Link hopping from another current thread about the Atoll Blue car -

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So, does anyone know where the gold car is these days?
The CoronadoGold/Sandalwood Ram3 M21 car sold again in April 2020 via eBay.
Think it was 13-14k

Metal work all done, chassis-suspension-steering-brakes all done.
Maybe Pontiac Rodder bought it back and will restore it too - that would be pretty damn awesome.

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