you are so right,
BARON...I am very pleased to see this one of car getting a full restoration (unbelievable paint job)..but in 1987 $5800 in that condition was too much...I looked at a few trashed/abomination TRANS AMS from 1983 to 1985 when I finally had to settle for the car I have now (remember,,no internet!!)...58k miles..it was not molested in the way I knew how a TRANS AM could have been (still sported the original Rally IIs)..but not an original paint car (survivior is the term we use now)..yet I paid a princely sum of $5k (more than new)..for my dream car..only to discover it needed 1/4s...yet today that same amount will get you a base bird rust rocket...yet hindsight is 20/20 and had I really kept searching, that same amount could have bought me an original paint true survivior...somewhere...but where??!!..possibly/most likely another state...of course I never followed through on the resto that I then began in 1990...but I get to finally follow through in 2012 and I get a great P.Y. forum, tons of resto parts, and the help of other enthusiasts and previous threads of those who have been down the path before me...but I also had a 17k mile IROC in 1987 through the 90s to fill the void...I would have loved to have been able to enjoy the TRANS AM I have now when I was in my 30s (would have really dug gong to nightclubs and dating with the 72 T/A instead of the 87 IROC, but oh well)...by the time I really get to enjoy my T/A (assuming I make it)..I will be pushing 60...if someone had old me at 23 that the car would take me 40 years Id tell them..."your joking"...and yet if I had not bought it then..I would be T/Aless today...as I saw an ad in 1997 for a mint condition 23kmile TRANS AM for atleast $21k dollars....1/2 of what it would easily cost today...and since I am no Doctor (more like I need one)...I am thankful for what I have...and I am determined to see his through
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