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Re: interesting but rough...
« Reply #15 on: December 08, 2018, 12:50:40 AM »
I don't know to many guys who would admit to owning a citation let alone ordering one...

I had a black '80 as a company vehicle, grey cloth interior. I think it was my first front wheel drive car, to be exact. Preceded by a '78 Malibu, followed by an '83 Caprice. First V6 I ever drove, as well.

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Re: interesting but rough...
« Reply #16 on: December 08, 2018, 01:59:32 AM »
My Nana had more repairs in that car, than the previous 3 combined. I got the car with 60k, it did not make it past 100k. Broken motor mounts dragging exaust. It had the v6, but what a dog iMO. It got donated
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« Reply #17 on: December 08, 2018, 04:24:32 AM »
My Nana had more repairs in that car, than the previous 3 combined. I got the car with 60k, it did not make it past 100k. Broken motor mounts dragging exaust. It had the v6, but what a dog iMO. It got donated

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« Reply #18 on: December 08, 2018, 07:36:23 AM »
Ah no. Maintaining the car was like having a rolling restoration Project. Except at the end of day it was a citation, not a Camaro or something you could take pride in. I got the car around 96. There is a reason there were no others on the road. I assure you it was not a matter of  keeping up on the maintenance, lol
1969 garnet red Z/28 46k mile unrestored X77
-Looking for 3192477 (front) spiral shocks 3192851 (rear)
-Looking for an original LOF soft ray windshield
-Looking for original Delco side post negative battery cable part # 6297651AV

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Re: interesting but rough...
« Reply #19 on: December 08, 2018, 01:44:25 PM »
I had the Citation '81-'87 and put 100k on it. Had a few repairs but not much. My '85 Pontiac 6000STE, another story. Worst car I ever owned. 

My mother had an 81 Citation, I always thought the X11 was a cool looking car with the ZL2-like hood. I'd own one w/V6 manual trans today as a driver.
The 6000STE, didn't that car have approximately 1.2 million buttons between the steering wheel and the dash? Sorry this went way off topic.
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Re: interesting but rough...
« Reply #20 on: December 08, 2018, 02:17:36 PM »
Sold for the BIN.
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Re: interesting but rough...
« Reply #21 on: December 08, 2018, 03:21:00 PM »
I think the car was maybe worth the BIN price. Hard to tell for sure though just based on the pics. Rust did not seem to be that bad. Projects like this are getting harder to find.

 If it would have been Lemans Blue, it would not have lasted 6 hours.
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« Reply #22 on: December 08, 2018, 07:27:35 PM »
So you were a buyer of it was Lemans blue?
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-Looking for an original LOF soft ray windshield
-Looking for original Delco side post negative battery cable part # 6297651AV

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« Reply #23 on: December 08, 2018, 09:27:13 PM »
Possibly. Not looking for a 69 at the moment.

I could have bought a Lemans Blue 69 Z a while back for $10k. Non original drivetrain but it had a big block and was a driver. Needed much of the interior, inner fenders, some rust repair. I passed and it sold the next day.

There are no bad colors in 69, in my opinion, but some are more desirable than others.
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« Reply #24 on: December 09, 2018, 01:17:18 AM »
K. I was thinking being originally red helped the sale. Other than black maybe *, I'm don't think another color would have had this car sell any quicker.
1969 garnet red Z/28 46k mile unrestored X77
-Looking for 3192477 (front) spiral shocks 3192851 (rear)
-Looking for an original LOF soft ray windshield
-Looking for original Delco side post negative battery cable part # 6297651AV

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« Reply #25 on: December 09, 2018, 07:23:19 AM »
That’s fine. I have only owned 2 red cars and would never own another one.
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Re: interesting but rough...
« Reply #26 on: December 09, 2018, 01:37:47 PM »

My question is what's with the different stripe layout on the deck lid, (where the spoiler would have been)?

A repaint, and they laid down the stripes more narrow?

Looks to me that this possibly wasn't a spoiler car since it has original stripes out to the edge of the decklid under the spoiler, and spoiler was added later during a repaint with incorrect stripe placement.  Kind of funny they still can't get the stripes right even with an example sitting right in front of them, lol.

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Re: interesting but rough...
« Reply #27 on: December 09, 2018, 01:46:07 PM »
It's a D80 car.
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« Reply #28 on: December 09, 2018, 04:23:58 PM »
D80 was included with Z/28 equipment as of early April 1969.
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« Reply #29 on: December 09, 2018, 04:42:25 PM »
Correct, but it was mentioned earlier in this thread that by this late in production specific items were running low in inventory.   The spoiler and the way the paint appears is just an observation on my part and I'm in no way insinuating with 100% certainty that's how the car was equipped.

 Just seems strange the way the car appears in the pics,  the stripes under the spoiler are correct for a non spoiler car, yet a spoiler was on the car during a repaint at some point in it's life and stripes painted incorrectly, and yet had D80 on the data plate.  Technically there shouldn't be stripe paint under that spoiler on a real D80 car.