Yesterday’s dealing with the Sunbird was an ice cream cone in the dirt.

"mazda616" (mazda616) 08/26/2018 at 10:13 • Filed to: Sunbird, J-Body, Pontiac

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Swapped cassette players with the one I got on eBay. Promptly broke the eBay one with a junky tape adapter that fell apart inside it. Deconstructed both the original broken and unplugged cassette player and the eBay one to see how they work and if I could fix either of t hem. Negative.

Swapped radios to see if that would cure the super quiet stereo. Nope. Apparently, there’s a factory amplifier somewhere in the dash that is bad . I’m not eager to take the dash apart again anytime soon after yesterday’s dealings, so that’ll just have to wait.

I did take it for a little cruise and get some pictures, though.

Got the serpentine belt and a/c belt in the mail, too. So, those will be going on soon.

WilliamsSW > mazda616 08/26/2018 at 10:26

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Looks good though! Unfortunately some days go that way.

Is that really an Acadian Beaumont in the background? Sweet!

RacinBob > mazda616 08/26/2018 at 10:34

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GM had some excellent alloy wheels in the early 80's. 

mazda616 > WilliamsSW 08/26/2018 at 11:30

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Yes! It belongs to my friend that lets me store the Sunbird in his garage during the week.

RacinBob > RacinBob 08/26/2018 at 12:10

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One of my favorites from 1981, guess what it is from.....

WilliamsSW > mazda616 08/26/2018 at 13:35

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That Sunbird was the best looking J car. I may be biased, having owned one, but it still looks good to me. Enjoy it!