weren't you just complaining about not being able to drive stick?
Absolutely I was. Bear with me here, it's a "complicated" situation...and I do have holes in my brain. Literally.
My daily driver, has to be auto-reliable. My "fun" weekend car/Father&Son project, I can clutch as long as it's weekend traffic highway miles, or farmer's markets in the Hudson Valley or Vermont, off to Gillette Castle or the Adirondacks, it'd be "nice" for an auto, but I can handle normal highway non stop and go MT stick. My right medial meniscus is torn in half, surgery isn't an option due to my body's love of scar tissue, but it's rigid orthotic braced so, some on and off the accelerator isn't going to kill it, as long as it's "some". And my bones are like wet chalk I generally break a long bone once ever 3-9 months. That being said,....
I was dying, living in hospitals, making out wills and crap, and when that didn't happen,
I'm having fun, so I'm a little all over the road with the want factor and shiny new toys, easily distracted by ideas. This is something I've wanted to do for years and finally can.
I LOVE the older early 80's body styles, and I also love 940s for the fact that I can drive them to the Adirondacks and not want to be put in a medical coma, and drive fire roads in confidence. I like my rear wheel 940s w/snows better than the Ford XC's in winter.
I looked at a stock Bertone, and a '79 Bertone with a Chevy small block in it. The small block guy raised his price, so it's a no go.
Most sensible thing would be to get a 94-95 940 B230FT w/good sheet metal or at least my skill level of repair/restore, because of the parts, I've already got two, but it's the sexy factor. I'd have to do a lot to get that thing to move fast. I'd like to get 300-350 on the "go fast" project. That motor I know nothing about. Diesel too...
Ideally I should be patient, find someone else's "project" car, and finish/rebuild it right. Instead of buying new parts at full retail. Kinda like I did with your Neighbor's all those wheels, that system, and the cam...I can tell the things been taken apart and put back together, but it seems like it was done right. That thing makes me smile, I find excuses to go grocery shopping so I can listen to my all my metal/hip hop at ridiculous volumes. In fact a box from FCP came today. It'll be rollin' soon. There's an '83? or '84? Coupe sedan on Long Island for CHEAP. Turbo... that's a redblock, and a project. Getting it to East Haven...I'd have to rent a car trailer from Uhaul, but it comes with a box o' parts. Turbo isn't working, and electrical problems.
The '83-'84 maroon sedans square lights, are hotness... I apologize for being long winded and scattered. It's the brain trauma...but that's where I'm at.