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novass · 02-17-2004, 07:49 AM

Here is a 1989 Subaru Legacy my roomates and I picked up for $100. We painted it with about $20 bucks worth of spraypaint and we are gonna take it off roading in the desert. Its having some transmission difficulties right now, so we are going to take that out and rebuild it. Then its off to the desert with this POS where we can hopefully find junk to smash into (couches, etc.) and to just fuck around in the dirt.

Its an automatic, kind of unhappy about that, but for $100 we really cant complain. 2.5L flat four, all wheel drive. We already made a craptacular intake for it but thats about all its getting. We were going to gut the interior, but the last time we did this with a car we only had the 2 front seats, so leaving in the back might be fun.

Anyway, here is the beauty

Before paint

After

The sweet engine bay, notice the custom orange and blue accents LOL and the blue tube behind the manifold is the new "improved" intake

this is how we have it set up in the driveway. this way, it looks official LOL

Hopefully we can get this thing destroyed relatively soon. I hope to bring back tons of video and images of that.

Kangaroo Boy · 02-17-2004, 08:17 AM

Thats awesome,Very orginal...But what did you do with the wheels?They look very strange,it looks like the tyre isn't on the wheel.

novass · 02-17-2004, 08:59 AM

Originally Posted by Kangaroo Boy

Thats awesome,Very orginal...But what did you do with the wheels?They look very strange,it looks like the tyre isn't on the wheel.

Oh LOL, we forgot to remove the masking tape so as not to get any paint on the tire before the pics were taken. We used gold paint for the wheels, going for that Subaru blue/gold theme, but it failed miserably LOL

I just want to get it out of here, its blocking my Nova. I cant wait to destroy the Legacy.

TT · 02-17-2004, 09:33 AM

Good one!! And what a deal!!

novass · 02-17-2004, 09:33 AM

I forgot to add a few pics from the camera.

dual Subies (my roomates black WRX wagon)

another super Subie photo

a new hood ornament LOL

callen · 02-17-2004, 09:39 AM

is that a rat on the subaru!?!??! hehe jking dude nice lap dawg.(im not a fan, i like the big dogs, our family has two golden retreivers and a big ass sheltie(lassie dog cept ours is a blue mearl(dark blue, white, black coat, no brown)

novass · 02-17-2004, 09:52 AM

Originally Posted by callen

is that a rat on the subaru!?!??! hehe jking dude nice lap dawg.(im not a fan, i like the big dogs, our family has two golden retreivers and a big ass sheltie(lassie dog cept ours is a blue mearl(dark blue, white, black coat, no brown)

Thats my friends dog. It wandered off the street into his work one day and he kept it cause he felt bad for it. I like bigger dogs as well, but we dont have the room for one at the moment. The only pet I have at my house is a cat. Its a cool cat though. We got her for free from my friends tattoo artist (he breeds them). Its a Bengal cat that usually sells for around a few thousand. I like cats and animals, but I would never pay that much for one, id rather buy another car. But, as far as cats go, this one is pretty cool. Shes stripped like a tiger.

i_hate_the_enzo · 02-18-2004, 05:43 PM

oh thats awesome, now i wish i lived near a desert so i could do something like that...nevermind, ill just do it on the roads, its funner that way...but thats pretty cool, the best part is, the paint job is alot better than alot of pro paint jobs ive seen...