engine and drivetrain need a little nudge from my 02 crew!

[Conserv]

Looking into that rocker panel is a bit like looking into someone's ear and seeing daylight: scary!

Unless you're able to do major body work yourself (see stymee's blog on his Northeast tii), this will be a very expensive '74 tii. If you're desperate to get into a tii with a low "entry point," and are ready for a major project (as the '74 will be), buy, instead, the terribly rusty '72 tii over in Vancouver: I'd feel much better sinking major time or dollars into a round taillight sunroof '72!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/161755096616?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&fromMakeTrack=true

I'm serious!

Regards,

Steve

Edited July 7, 2015 by Conserv

[Fretish]

I've bought myself another week to decide what's going to happen as my travel plans have changed. The vin checks out based on what I've found here, and the engine is original to the car. The snorkel mystery continues until I speak to the owner again. I feel like the parts alone are well worth the money as I am in need of a 5 speed set up as well as some engine work. The tii struts and new brakes would be valuable to me as well as the sport steering wheel, not to mention the fuel injection system which would go back on the motor. It has a new gas tank that could be sold along with the 13" ATS wheels.

I hate to do it but if it's going to cost too much time and money to be worth restoring, then I may as well get all the parts......ugh

These cars just seem to show up so rarely around here.......conflicted

[conkitchen]

Run away.

 

there is still so good meat to this car. slap some cheese and make a tii sandwhich

 

 

[xferboy]

If you want to get rid of those hideous wheels, I'm only a province to the east away

 

Good find!  I like the spoiler/fin/??? on the hood!

[Conserv]

I've bought myself another week to decide what's going to happen as my travel plans have changed. The vin checks out based on what I've found here, and the engine is original to the car. The snorkel mystery continues until I speak to the owner again. I feel like the parts alone are well worth the money as I am in need of a 5 speed set up as well as some engine work. The tii struts and new brakes would be valuable to me as well as the sport steering wheel, not to mention the fuel injection system which would go back on the motor. It has a new gas tank that could be sold along with the 13" ATS wheels.

I hate to do it but if it's going to cost too much time and money to be worth restoring, then I may as well get all the parts......ugh

These cars just seem to show up so rarely around here.......conflicted

Dear conflicted,

The clinical name for your condition is '02-starvation, but you've still got to think clearly -- sort of (truely clear thinking never occurs around cars). If you're buying for parts, neither matching numbers nor a replacement nosepiece makes any difference. (Three out of the four '02 "drivers" I've owned had "nose-jobs": one needed one, enabling me to afford it, one entirely preceded my ownership, and one happened on my watch. That's 75%, and I'd bet 50% of all surviving '02s have had nose-jobs by now: no one flinched at nose-jobs in the '70s and what '02 hasn't been driven fast and recklessly? I know mine were!)

But...if you really are buying for parts -- and I'm not convinced you are -- $4,000 is a LOT for a '74 tii parts car. There are much cheaper ways to get a 5-speed, and some tii struts, calipers, and disks.

If you must "enter," enter with your eyes wide open. And don't start a marriage on the basis of this, or ANY car!

Good luck,

Steve

[Zorac]

canadian prices on these cars always seem higher than us prices, even after allowing for exchange (or so my experience goes).  not quite enought to justify shipping and importing a car from the states, but close on something that is in good shape.

[Fretish]

But...if you really are buying for parts -- and I'm not convinced you are -- $4,000 is a LOT for a '74 tii parts car. There are much cheaper ways to get a 5-speed, and some tii struts, calipers, and disks. If you must "enter," enter with your eyes wide open. And don't start a marriage on the basis of this, or ANY car!

 

Canadian prices are usually higher than US prices unfortunately, and the selection is nowhere near as vast as in the US. Also the other big factor here is cost of labour....we don't come cheap up here. So for me to have a rebuilt tii motor (minus the rebuild on the FI parts, would need to do that myself or keep a carb instead), the struts, upgraded brakes, wheels, all the parts for the 5 speed conversion, new gas tank with fuel pump, sport steering wheel, radiator, and a bunch of others I'm forgetting, for me not to have to import and pay duty, taxes, shipping and 30% exchange (by the time it actually hits the bank account) is just not something I think I can pass up. I'm going to be contacting the owner tomorrow to see where he is at with getting it running, I'm hoping I can work him a bit on the price.

 

If you want to get rid of those hideous wheels, I'm only a province to the east away

 

Good find!  I like the spoiler/fin/??? on the hood!

 

If I get it, I will let you know! I won't be keeping them if I part the car. How many of these come up in SK? I scour kijiji for parts or cars and hardly anything decent ever comes up....within reason anyways.