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"The Swedish Bandit" (swedishbandit)
08/06/2013 at 16:22 • Filed to: sparfbait

But your "dream car" just went up for sale - !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!

What do you think, CP or NP? At around 9000$ I'd expect it to be as nice in real life as it is in the pics, which is to say almost mint!

DISCUSSION (10)

PatBateman > The Swedish Bandit
08/06/2013 at 16:27

Every time I see this model Trans Am, the Knight Rider theme song gets stuck in my head.

Thanks...

AbigGRNboot > The Swedish Bandit
08/06/2013 at 16:32

Love the google trans.

"Very spirited and well-equipped copy! Goes nicely, seen and heard. - Nybesiktigad - Swedish Sold, genuine GTA - V8, 350tpi of over 240hp - TH700-box - WS6 performance suspension - Diffad - Something About, nitrous oxide - Bosch injectors - Välservad - Targa, lockable - Leather seats from Recaro ( original) - Power windows - AC - Analog gauges - Original CD (!) - C-Lock - In addition to the black set JP Falco, rear 275-40 r17 with BF Goodrich g-Force T / A Drag Radial, front 235-40 r17 is also original rims. If interested do not hesitate to call as well as email. No changes are present, nor any telephone spraying . The car is in Linköping. Mvh "

The Swedish Bandit > PatBateman
08/06/2013 at 16:33

Why settle with just having the theme stuck in your head?, when you can blast it out loud trough your speakers for the whole neighborhood to hear!

Here, have this extend version of it.

Walfisch > The Swedish Bandit
08/06/2013 at 16:36

The only thing missing is the voice over, and my childhood would be complete. Thanks for this!

PatBateman > The Swedish Bandit
08/06/2013 at 16:38

I'm at work.

So I'll do it. My assistant will think I'm nuts.

The Swedish Bandit > AbigGRNboot
08/06/2013 at 16:42

Eeh tha fuck?! So according to google it's a genuine GTA clone? Makes sense... Otherwise I think the message about it being in a very good condition gets across.

I'll translate that fat text for ya;

Mapped, NOS

Not interested in any types of trades, nor any telephone haggling.

AbigGRNboot > The Swedish Bandit
08/06/2013 at 16:46

Mucho Gracias Senior Bandito.

Sparf > The Swedish Bandit
08/06/2013 at 16:48

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Funny the very same car would be put up for sale this soon. I'm bingo on money though and that price is a lot lower than what most lunatics asked for their prized GTAs so I expect it will be sold pretty soon.

Interesting to see that the seller is female. Also, I hope I'm not the only one who finds running nitrous on a near-bone stock 350 quite pathetic.

It's a real shame, because it looks perfect save for the T-Tops and slushbox.

In other news, I've tracked down a potential parts car for my GT-Four which I'm thinking of buying. I went and looked at it today and it looked like shit, but there were still a lot of parts that very salvageable and I can probably get it for just a few thousand kronor.

The Swedish Bandit > Sparf
08/06/2013 at 17:04

I ain't saying you should, but realistically you could sell you GT-four for a good chunk of the money and then haggle the seller for the difference.

Connecting up a nitrous system is supposedly an easy thing to do and a quick way to gain hp. Isn't the 350 tpi quite a complex machine to upgrade the "usual" way?

I wish I had a parts car, however my dad won't let me buy one because he's tired of me filling up the yard with junkers (ok, and I don't have any money).

I was at a cars and coffee a couple of hours ago, were there were this one dude that had an all black on black 88-89 GTA with no T-tops. Looked totally killer!

Sparf > The Swedish Bandit
08/06/2013 at 17:22

The only complex thing (AFAIK) about the 350 TPI is that the system is only good for about 0-5500 RPM and doesn't flow too amazingly well either. It belongs in a truck, basically. Other than that, everything is the same as with any other 350 Chevy, and there's practically an endless sea of parts for it out there. The only other issue I can think of is that older 350 heads won't fit since the block and heads were changed in '87 (the head bolts are angled differently).

The fact that adding nitrous is easy is why I dislike seeing it done like this, since it pretty much tells me that the person who owns it either doesn't know how to do tune the engine "properly" or doesn't care (and has just added the nitrous to give their poser car a small and very temporary bit of actual performance which they claim "smokes everything").

Of course, I might be going at this from a completely wrong angle and maybe the owner just wanted to add some extra performance to the car without (in their mind) ruining its stock condition. It's still stupid to me, but at least the reasoning is somewhat sound.

Either way, I'd rip that NOS system right out and start sourcing the parts needed to do a junkyard Vortec 5.3L L33 swap.