New here from Oklahoma

**Split51** · 01-03-2016

Hey all. Just found the site. Let me start off saying that I am not a Grand Prix collector. I collect and build older cars but appreciate all limited and rare cars and can't stand to see hard to find parts distroyed. I found this site researching a car my neighbor was going to send to the scrapper.

A 2000 GTP Daytona 500.

I bought the car from them to try to save the rarer parts from being taken to the crusher. Can someone please let me know how many post I need to be able to make these parts available in the classifieds? Thanks, Jeff

here is a pic of my current project. It will be fenderless with a 392 hemi.

**Fivefingerdeathpunch** · 01-03-2016

Not sure on the number, more than 25-30 for sure though and a given amount of time or how often you are contributing.

It's fairly easy to rack up posts if help out in threads.

**Split51** · 01-03-2016

Thanks FFDP. Here is a pic of the Daytona I will be parting on the classifieds when I get enough points. It always amazes me that some people will just crush stuff like this instead of trying to preserve limited production parts.

**idrivejunk** · 01-03-2016

Wicked Model A project. Will it be "ratty", flashy, or retro-style?

I think its probably 25 posts. Don't know.

You may be suprised to find that nothing off the car you saved is worth anything. Seriously, rare isn't a word in FWD GP speak. None of them are worth more than 2,500 and any part you have can't be more than fifty bucks or so even if its a good engine or trans. Hopefully it softens the news to hear it from another old car freak. They are hardly worth the effort of parting out. People expect garage sale prices that won't even cover your labor to take a part off.

**ericspecullaas** · 01-03-2016

lol looks like someone started to part it out lol. we can get you to the posts you need in no time lol

**Split51** · 01-03-2016

IDRIVEJUNK. I am going to build it in an eally 60s style traditional look. It will get a 3" haircut and the body is going to be set on a deuce frame.

I know the parts won't be worth a fortune but would rather see them saved for someone who will need them. I would just like to recoup my money that I paid. This car has 250k on it and I believe it has a broken crank snout. I will just be trying to sell the Daytona specific parts prior to it going to the happy racetrack in the sky.

**ericspecullaas** · 01-03-2016

the only hair i see is the rust icicles sticking up lol

**Fivefingerdeathpunch** · 01-03-2016

Too bad the driver side roof rail is missing, a pair of those sell for 150 easy.

**SubwayGuy** · 01-03-2016

Looks like someone already snagged one roof rail, and that hood isn't the original. So someone either sold the original one or had the hood replaced due to damage.

**idrivejunk** · 01-03-2016

Cool, best choice IMO on the A. Deuce grille shell or A? I was involved with a build of one a couple years back, and the grille makes a whale of a difference. Looks like you actually have a fairly decent specimen to start with.

The parts price thing is just yeah disappointing. I crashed my 40th anniversary GTP coupe (1 of 1147) and hoped to do the same noble thing. Now I just live in a house full of worthless parts lol. A remarkable number of those parts will readily lend themselves to hot rod projects though. And sufficient patience may prove it worthwhile if a buyer for some of your model-specific stuff comes along. I had one lined up for some 40th stuff but a baby came along on his end. Rats!

**Split51** · 01-03-2016

They were going to try to sell the headlights from it. They are in the trunk. They said it never had a driver side roof rail when they bought it. As for the hood, I don't know if it was replaced at some point, I thought it was supposed to have scoops.

**Split51** · 01-03-2016

IDRIVEJUNK. I picked up a near perfect 32 passenger car grille down in Texas a few years ago at an estate sale. It is the grille on the left.

**idrivejunk** · 01-03-2016

Originally Posted by Split51

IDRIVEJUNK. I picked up a near perfect 32 passenger car grille down in Texas a few years ago at an estate sale. It is the grille on the left.

Primo! Cool toys too. Wait, is that a piece of a real live Radir wheel I see? I have the discontinued re-pops on my 69.

My advice on the GP would be:

A- theres a guy on here (a Marine with a Skylark ragtop) who has been hunting for coupe rocker moldings pretty hard. Got good ones?

B- offer the decklid for sale with the spoiler since the hole pattern is different.

C- make sure thats a busted crank... if its the balancer instead maybe you have a usable car... but then who needs more projects, right?

**Split51** · 01-03-2016

Yes. There is a Radir tri rib sticking up there. I have a pair of them. 15x8, 5.5bp. Perfect chrome.

**idrivejunk** · 01-03-2016

Those would look great on the A with pie crusts out back and wide white pizza cutters up front!

**Split51** · 01-03-2016

Can a person really have too many projects???? LOL

**Split51** · 01-03-2016

Here is my 392 for the A project.

**idrivejunk** · 01-03-2016

Not if they all run! Man, I can't remember what they called those door front end things.... wild. You got some cool stuff, man. Sweet.

**Slick2500** · 01-03-2016

Originally Posted by Fivefingerdeathpunch

Too bad the driver side roof rail is missing, a pair of those sell for 150 easy.

The drivers side is the side they don't make anymore correct? I know you can still order, or used to be able to order one of the sides from GM I do not recall which one it was though.