Hello Everyone, I just wanted to introduce myself to all of you. My name is Bill and I live about 20 mins south of Cleveland Ohio. I also belong to the Pontiac Bonneville Club forums. The reason I joined this forum is to talk to other F-body owners and learn about my 1979 TA before I start restoring her. I purchased my 1979 Trans Am WS6 400 4 speed about 13 years ago from a younger kid who had it as his first car....(must be nice). Anyways, He was selling her so he could buy at the time one of those 3000GT Mitsubishi's or something along those lines. I can still remember the first day I saw her in his garage. I was thinking "Is this real or am I dreaming, Such a thing of beauty". The garage door was open when I arrived to look her over and take her for a test drive. When the current owner handed me the keys for the test drive I got in and was blown away that the clock inside the tach still worked and she only had 57k on the odometer. One funny thing was when I was out on my test drive I started smelling what I thought was the clutch slipping real bad. When I got to the first stop sign I noticed in the side mirror the wheels were smoking. I was like "I am an idiot!" I still had the E-Brake on! When I got back to the current owners home I told him I wanted her and gave him a 500 dollar deposite. It's still amazing to me that I only paid $5000 for this car, but I guess for 1993 that was a reasonable price. I then started to notice that almost all of 79's I had seen at car shows had 403 Oldsmobile motors with AT's and rear drum brakes. Within the first 3 years after I bought her the only thing I had done to her was replace the clutch and brakes. I also started to research a little about the car and how many were made just like it, but at that time Internet was expensive. Then one day I was driving her to a show and the tranny starting grinding a little even in nuetral so I figured this would be a great time to do a slight restoration on the motor/ engine compartment and have the tranny looked at and rebuilt. Well needless to say here we are 10 years later and she is still in pieces with the only thing I had done was have the tranny completely rebuilt. I am going to start this full and complete restoration of putting her back together in a few months so I am trying to find good places for info and this seems like the perfect place. I hope you all enjoyed my story and I look forward to talking to all of you.

Bill

Sounds like a nice project on your hands Bill! Keep us updated as you go along, and welcome to FBO!

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