3-Time Owner Looking To Get Back In the Game

[WYLDE007]

My first car was a 1981 GL1800 Hatchback.
My second car was a 1989 Loyale 3dr 1800.
My third car was a 1988 XT6. God I miss that car.

I've been trying to get a line on one (or two, or three... more on that later) but they are few and far between, with most of the better examples being PNW.  Alas, I am in coastal Virginia where the pickings are slim.

Any help in tracking down a viable example - preferably 5MT - is appreciated.  If there is a good shell (everything mostly there except for engine) I would also be interested, since I would like to do an EZ30 swap with 5MT-AWD (Legacy turbo) which would put almost 200 horses under her hood.  There's a guy in Portland right now with a FWD that would be almost perfect, but it would cost me almost $2000 on top of the sell just to move it.

Unless somebody here can help...

[moosens]

Shop those transport people. Did you put yours up for bid? If you do or did, wait after they send their first and even second offers. Maybe try to make a contact but still wait even if you give more details or talk to one of them.

 

You’ll see the price drop dramatically. I’ve done this a few times.

Also if you’re not too worried about the $2k as long as you included a nice roadtrip you can do what I did last year and fly out, rent the truck and pull along, and bring it back yourself. 
 

That ride through the southwest and using I-40 into the Appalachians is really awesome. I stopped to see another one of us vintage Subaru owners in NC before heading north back home. 
 

Either way you won’t miss the money and you’ll have a really great memory to have and share. 
 

I’m just now getting my 1977 stage one 4WD wagon from NM back to roadworthy. I put those Forceum mudslinger tires on some powder coated white spoke wheels and it’s already turning heads and hasn’t left the condo parking lot. 
 

Money comes and goes. I know how it is. I’m working class. 
 

So we don’t really talk about this but if you skirt the rules a little you can use a box truck and trailer and bring back two. Shhhh just something I heard.  

[WYLDE007]

I've got a line on one car if I can get to it in time - seller wants to list it pretty high but has agreed to sell to me for what he's got in it if he doesn't see any interest.

Then there's a guy in Iowa that I am trying to get a hold of - claims he's got "a couple to pick from" where I would be perfectly fine driving out with a friend, renting a one-way trailer, hauling one and driving the other back.  Assuming he ever responds.

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So we don’t really talk about this but if you skirt the rules a little you can use a box truck and trailer and bring back two. Shhhh just something I heard.

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