New project car, 1980 Trans Am

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gochomoe@reddit

A buddy of mine had one. It ran 900hp off NO2 and 1100 on it. He could do burnouts in 5th gear

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CamelotWarrior@reddit

Awesome car, friend. What's going on in the second picture, lower left corner? Looks like those are rust holes?

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KTMkidemfd@reddit (OP)

Yea, 2 small rust holes, I plan on cutting around them and welding in some sheet metal. The underside of the hood is in good shape, the rust doesn’t go all the way through

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CamelotWarrior@reddit

Kind of an odd place for rust holes to be. Either way, beautiful car. Enjoy it. If it were mine, I'd keep it as original as possible. Good luck!

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KTMkidemfd@reddit (OP)

That’s my plan with it, I wanna keep it as close to original as I can.

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KTMkidemfd@reddit (OP)

Honestly not bad at all, there’s basically zero rot, the body is clean and straight. I think I kinda lucked out

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Old-Spend-8218@reddit

You did and that is a killer ride - my friend had that car in 86 and we rolled out.

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KTMkidemfd@reddit (OP)

Hell yea dude, I can’t wait to get it running and drive it all over the place

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Old-Spend-8218@reddit

Put a 5.3 in it and roll that puppy out on the highway

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MysteriousBrystander@reddit

I feel like I saw those on a trailer in the neighborhood near me not long ago. Good luck.

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KTMkidemfd@reddit (OP)

Well if you’re from LI, it was probably this car

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Klem_Colorado@reddit

Thats a Thunder Chicken in pretty good shape.

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KTMkidemfd@reddit (OP)

Yea it definitely needs some love, but she’s got pretty good bones

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Digitalabia@reddit

OP, what timing! I just bought an 18 wheeler. I have an idea...

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KTMkidemfd@reddit (OP)

Sounds like we gotta load some beers up

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HeirElfEsquire@reddit

I can't smell that 80s funky interior...not the must or mold...or maybe a little of that...but...still. get it!

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KTMkidemfd@reddit (OP)

She’s definitely got a smell to her. Gonna do my best to clean out the interior as best I can

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IKNOOOOOOOOOW@reddit

Invest in an ionizer, cheap at Walmart or on Amazon.

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ajs380@reddit

Curious to see if it has the optional ratchet shifter.

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chillinharderthanu@reddit

My ‘77 had it and I accidentally stumbled onto it. I found it funny that there’s very little indication if you have it or not, especially if you don’t know that it’s an option.

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KTMkidemfd@reddit (OP)

I didn’t even hear of that. How did you find that out?

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Shift into low/1st. If you can bump the shifter over to the right you have it. I did this accidentally and it reminded me of some cars I’ve driven that have sport mode so I googled it. Lo and behold yep it’s supposed to do that. Push it over to the right and then up, now you’re in second and it won’t let you push it up further. Repeat for third.

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jmann3k@reddit

That's nice! Keep posting!

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QuiteQuestionablyQ@reddit

Bitchin! Not to many turbos around anymore. Keep the 301 in it, really unique platform

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FortuneHeart@reddit

YES! This is a dream car of mine.

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KTMkidemfd@reddit (OP)

It’s been my dream car for years. I’ve been over the moon these last few days. It’s a great feeling to have it in my driveway

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FortuneHeart@reddit

Only thing I would sell my impala to get is a 78 TA.

Great find man

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Wizdad-1000@reddit

Nice! Smokin’ TA! Time to change username to BanditOnTheRun

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KTMkidemfd@reddit (OP)

Hell yea, I might have to steal that username!

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Squidking1000@reddit

Noice! Keeping the 301 or gonna beef her up? Honestly change the quadrajet to a holley sniper blow though and you probably could get the turbo to work better.

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