CharcoalBird

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Someone could get this for a very good price.

http://tampa.craigslist.org/hil/cto/5640799837.html

ray jr

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Ive been seeing alot of good deals like this on third gens lately .. prices are finally starting to come down on these cars .. I might have to snag a few more and hope they go up in the near future ..

chazman

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Great deal!

burnout88

I would rather have this 88 Forumla 350 for 11,900 with only 18k miles on it.

http://phoenix.craigslist.org/wvl/cto/5564494234.html

JT

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The car is obviously white but this picture is not of a white exterior:


Then the cluster pictures shows a metric unit cluster and the other shows a standard unit:

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CharcoalBird

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I'd take both.
Curious.

ray jr

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he obviously has two different cars and put the black one in there by accident .. he does have pics of the interior for the white one on there

JT

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Is it really? And it's obvious? Ad doesn't say anything about owning more than one GTA so it's guess.

And let's look at that one digital cluster he posted in metric units. Google shows that same image posted online on numerous websites, such as the following on Gawker media:

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media...ec6kpqljpg.jpg



And found on this website:
http://www.tripletransam.com/gta_dig.html

Look familiar to what he posted? Obviously, he may not own a second GTA but mixed and matched some photos. A little strange. It may or may not mean anything.

ray jr

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lol , you guys are funny .. it is very obvious that he is selling a white gta with a tan interior and he has several interior shots of a tan interior with a white gta .. the black car probably got mixed in by accident .. now if he didnt have the interior shots of the white gta then i might scratch my head

Drew

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When uploading thumbnails it's easy enough to grab a similar photo by accident.

He lost me at 1987 with a Liberace color scheme. I'd take an 88 over an 87, and an 89 over an 88 every day of the week. The white + gold + tan interior is just too gaudy for my tastes. To each his own...

ev305tpi

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Both are cool cars, but if buying one as a low mile investment car....

The white GTA has been repainted, there is paint all over the screws in the ground effects:



The red one has the wrong decals on the power bulge (possible repaint?).

Both are probably nice cars, but are probably priced accordingly due to things seen better in person.

Stuart S

IHood vent inserts are painted white too. The headlight bezels and marker lights don't fit properly either (almost looks like the markers sit under the bumper cover instead if on top of it?)


That's also an aftermarket aerowing...

ev305tpi

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yep!! good call Stuart!

It's cheap for a reason

okfoz

Not to rain on your parade, and honestly I prefer the Formula. But that car is not original. I did a quick glance and here are some things that are not correct for a 1988.
1) Hood decal "Tuned Port Injection" Why? THere should be no decal on the hood for a 1987-1990 Formula 350. The Hood decal did not appear on the 350 cars when they got rid of "Formula 350" on the doors in 1991, when they put the 5.7 Liter FI to the hood.
2) The Door handles did not have "Fuel Injection" after 1987. As a matter of fact 1988 ALL F-bodies were Fuel injected so it seemed kind of like "duh" to have the label... Whereas in 1982-1987 the most popular V8 was the LG4 4BBL, when you got the FI it was actually kind of special... FI was no longer special in 1988-1992...
I imagine I could find more but 30 seconds found that.

okfoz

This image is a scanned image, you can tell by the white dust. It is not hard to clean up, but really?

Other than the painted screws, another thing that struck me was looking at his picture of the running car as per the IP. The Oil Pressure is pegged to the top... Not sure if it is a good or bad thing. Seen High Oil pressure be an indication of something wrong with the oil, bad gauge or bad sender. My dad bought a car with high oil pressure and the engine blew up a month after he got it. Turned out that the high pressure was from sludge... Then Boom, rod thru the side of the block. IT may be nothing tho...

dcd2236

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Another thing I noticed on that formula is when it has the performance sound decal it has the subwoofer switch which it did not since the block off plate was still intact.

F-body-fan

Less than impressed with the original car advertised. Lots of details that are not only "not clean" for the miles & price, but the car looks to have some wear covered up like is mentioned in posts above. something you would see on a 60-80K car. I'm betting the underside don't look like a 13K mile car. Call me a negative nelly, but I expect a little more from low mileage claimed cars, or I call BS. When cars like this have what is low & ultra low miles, they have a lot to live up to & we will always put them under the microscope. We expect a bit more & its not that hard to tell them apart IMO. Many of these type of cars clues of tampering & they leave out the money pictures.

What's up with the one wheel with the poped bead & missing valve stem? I'm guessing the wheels have been restored/refinished.

If the car was listed for $7500 @ 80K miles, non of us would be picking on it. well except for the random pictures of other cars

scottmoyer

The car is advertised in the Tampa Craigslist, but shows it's in Apopka. I live in Apopka and we are about two hours from Tampa and closer to Orlando. If someone wants me to verify anything, if the car is in Apopka, I'd be willing to check it out. I'm not willing to spend time if nobody is truly interested. Let me know.

F-body-fan

Not only that but its idling at 800 RPMS, with no oil pressure

JT

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You probably know this but on the digital oil pressure gauge when the oil pressure is over 60PSI, there is no bar illumination when it's off the scale. My digital clusters on my Trans Am and GTA do this when engine is cold and the oil is thick along with colder fast idle.

If there was no oil pressure, the very bottom bar would illuminate in red and the cluster would also beep to indicate a gauge out of range.

F-body-fan

Actually I had no idea. Thanks for the info. I just saw the sellers other picture where there was an indicator, so it looked to me like there was no pressure in that one

strange though that it wouldn't just sit at the top like an analog gauge would.

CharcoalBird

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I would think the washer tank and coolant overflow would be cleaner as well.