Lumina with 3800SC Swap

I'm so happy I'm busy for the next few days or this would be mine. 

In reply to Professor_Brap (Forum Supporter) :

nope go buy it, i'll give you the balance of my w body parts

If I hadn’t bought Curtis’s Impala, this would be my challenge car this year.  Axle-snapping, transmission-demolishing burnouts for miles.

Professor_Brap (Forum Supporter) said:

I'm so happy I'm busy for the next few days or this would be mine. 

I'm upset that you are busy for the next few days so you can't keep me from buying it

Pete. (l33t FS) said:

Professor_Brap (Forum Supporter) said:

I'm so happy I'm busy for the next few days or this would be mine. 

I'm upset that you are busy for the next few days so you can't keep me from buying it

Based on the map it's only a couple miles from my house...

Do it Pete, it's gotta be more reliable than the volvo

In reply to Patrick (Forum Supporter) :

Hurry up and send evan after it.  
 

it has a 3.2" pulley.  That's nice, i have a 2.6" pulley.  If I didn't just invest in a couple q45's I'd totally rock this for my dad sedan

Well Pete is here so he can send himself after it.

Send him!  Mostly because i want to drive it but don't want it.

Patrick (Forum Supporter) said:

Send him!  Mostly because i want to drive it but don't want it.

I don't want it OR want to drive it, but I am happy that it exists.

Patrick (Forum Supporter) said:

I want to drive it but don't want it.

I am solidly in this camp.

My first unintentional offroad experience in a car was behind the wheel of an uncle's Lumina, with him in the passenger seat calling me a Bob Costas for driving cautiously around the previous bend in the back road...I wasn't old enough to have a license at the time.

I want to drive this machine, but have zero desire to own it.

In reply to gumby (Forum Supporter) :

mine was in moms 93 lumina.  Got the front tire into the gravel next to the outside of a curve, not even speeding just going to school, and overcorrected when the back end kicked over and went down a hill over some trees.  Minus about 80 pounds of dirt the car was fine after the tow truck pulled it out.  I drove that car half of senior year, then i had a 94 euro that got 3.4 dohc swapped.  At that point mom had a 91 euro and my sister had a base crank window 91 that i got on ebay for $475.  It had several degrees of positive camber in front that could not be adjusted out so we just kept flipping tires over on the rims. Then somewhere along the line i got a 93 z34 that i planned to use for the $2005 challenge but when i took the cradle out to swap to a 5 speed manual i found scary pulled back frame damage and scrapped it.  That sucked, it was lowered with all the handling tricks, bigger front brakes, had head work and cam timing changes that made it very quick and i was going to slap a bottle on it.  

If one of you buy this now, I'll buy it from you after the challenge this year to put the motor and trans in the back of my x1/9. I'll pay whatever you end up paying for it $1000 or less.

I mean, just throwing that out there for everyone who wants to drive it but not own it.

If you're serious send me a message.

I'll resurrect this Zombie thread with an admission: 

This was my ad for the Lumina. 

It was exactly what you saw in the ad. I called it the "Grandma's Estate Sale car". 

I bought it from the guy that built it in around 2018. It was a decent enough daily driver, and was comfortable to drive. 

I can't remember exactly why I was trying so hard to get rid of it. Probably because I had one two many projects sitting around. It had sat over winter. It needed work. I knew I wasn't going to get much out of it, so I posted what I figured I'd get out of it. 

I did eventually sell it later that summer after putting some work into it. Wound up getting $1600 out of it. The guy who bought it promptly wrecked it. Then spent a year or so trying to hock it for $3500 after scabbing it back together with a donor car.

I don't remember how I saw this post, but I didn't bother making an account until the other day to post in another thread about my 2019 Silverado. 

But yeah...the legendary Lumina was mine.

In reply to Helo735 :

Welcome.  You have found your people.

I recognize that from someone on the forum at w-body dot com building it when I still had my turbo Grand Prix 

In reply to Patrick :

Yep, a guy by the name of Brian. 

I've had many w-bodies over the years. 

In reply to Helo735 :

I probably had too many. I did a 3.4 dohc swap in my lumina sedan. Then a 3400. Then back to 3.1 for my sister to drive.