lookin for my first project

[breaknstuf4fun]

i'm intersted in finding a beat up old pain in the rear project/restoration car. though, oddly i'm havieng a hard time finding one, and (right now) the moeny to do it with, but that's a later issue.

i woudl like to know how do i find such a project, and is it possible to find nearly what you want (for instance i'm personally intersted in finding a '98-'70 GTO), are there any past threads on here tha may be able to help me, and if i have to buy from an individual, how do i go about it so i'm not lost, and what should i look for in a project car to make sure i'm not getting too much over my head (such as condition of its parts).

right now i'm currently in Houston, due to my dear friend Katrina, which was so kind to move me. Any help on this topic would be great, even if it's telling me to post in a different forum, just please point me in the right direction.

and if it's not totally obvious, i'm new, but not nearly as much as i used to be, to the auto world. I'm hopeing that this will help me learn abit more, simply becuase i can't afford to take apart my grand am and learn from there.

[4blogger 96]

Man, it would very sweet to a calssic Goat, believe me, it's one of my all-time favorite classics. But I would not recomend a Muscle Car right now, due to gas prices constantly rising. Believe me, when gas hits 5 bucks a gallon, your going to regret not having a fuel efficient car, and your geeto is probably end up being a garage queen. If you really want a nice older, cheaper car go with a Datsun 240Z: 4 cyl (good gas mileage), good aftermarket support, much more reliable than any muscle car, very good looks imo, and when something breaks you can go to your local Nissan dealer and have them replace it for cheap, im pretty sure they still manufacture 240 parts due to the huge support of the car, rather than searching the junkyard or going online to order expensive aftermarket parts or goods that have been parted out from another car, which may or may not be quality stuff. Also, a 240 can hit 12's easy for under 7 g's. Other cool, reliable, fuel eficient, reliable cars that can go fast are the Nissan/Datsun 280Zx's, Chrysler Conquest GSI/Mistubishi Starion Tsi 2.6 long block 4-banger (if you can find one thank god, they are very sweet cars, my buddy just got his to run 11's) Datsun 510 Coupe, Datsun Pickup can be pretty bad-ass once you swap a Z motor in. Any cheap AMC: Pacer, Gremlin, SST, rebel with the 258ci inline-6 would be good if you want to stick to american cars. The 258 is a surpring strong motor, not a ton of aftermarket support as most with AMC's look to build the 390 or the 401, but there is plently out there to get you to 14's and beyond. Again, really really cheap. Another good american junkyard classic is the Mopar 225 Slant-6, which can be found in just about every cheap chrysler-Dodge-Plymouth, and thsose things can really throw you to your seat with about 3 g's dumped into them. And you could beat the holy livin hell out of them and they will keep goin and goin and goin. You can say that about to many American made engines. Out of all of these I would would personally recomend the 240Z or the 280ZX or a Datsun 510 cuope with a Z swap. But any of these would easily outrun any Muscle Car for the price.

[breaknstuf4fun]

thanks 4blog but i'm still confused here

everytime i think of a "junkyard" to look in i keep thinking of salvage yards and scrap yards. is there a difference? seems like an odd question, but i have the notion that a salvage yard and scrap yards are for either cars ripped apart for parts, usually leving them useless too me, or tooo much work for my first go, or for newer cars that just got into a few bad wrecks or flooded and so on, and being scrapped. do i have this right? and is a junkyard just the same thing?

and if any of you live in houston or Texas, cane you name a few junkyards or areas of town where i can find a project car on someone's front yard just waiting to be sold for a few hundred

[4blogger 96]

a scrapyard was originally concieved as a place to buyscrap metal, old car bodies, truck beds, cabs, frames, etc., and a junkyard is supposed to be a place to find old mechanical parts: motors and motor components. But over time they have just evolved into one, any local "scrapyard" will both metal and motors and much more. It's a better idea, because when someone wants to rummage through a local scrap/junkyard, they usually they don't want to have to find a certain type, just a waste of time. Anyways, I don't live anywhere near Texas but I took the liberty to search the web for local texas junkyards. This site might have a junkyard near you:

http://www.usedpartscentral.com/search_texas.htm