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 okay it all started the weekend after new years,when Dave Matt, Bryan and Myself took a ride out to a kinda new junkyard in the south buffalo area of new york called LKQ. In there we found a silver/grey interior 88 LS (Dave and Tim should have pics of the car ) with a ton of good parts on it, At first glance I really didnt think much of it or anything I could use and didnt buy anything. But after we got home I decided to take a run out and grab the dash trim as "you never know someone may need them some day ". I wish I would have taken pics of them before i cleaned them as they were sad dirty shape. here they are after a little cleaning
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 Also when I was there the second time I noticed the passenger side door was in solid decent shape with only a small amount of surface rust on the lower edge . So last weekend Bryan and I made trip number 3 out there and grabbed the door. sometime within the previous week someone had taken the entire dash and drivers glass . Heres a picture of the door after we stripped the panels,mirror and chrome
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 I was thinking the upper door panel was garbage as it had some yellowing but just for the heck of it I tried our bissel upohlstery cleaner on it and it cleaned up real nice
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and heres a shot of the upper and lower , Lower hasnt been cleaned up yet , its pretty yellowed as well just above the carpet ( wanted to everyone to get the idea of how bad everthing looked
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and today trip number 4 ,I picked up the drivers side door luxury sport trim  and a  fly wheel cover for the 86
Heres a picture of both the door trims before I clean them up
006-20.jpg trip #5 hope to get the rear bumper cover

-- Edited by 87 Monte LS on Saturday 6th of February 2010 07:06:06 PM

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That is pretty good pick up, I like the gray peices, cleaned up well.

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Doug, those parts cleaned up nicely! And that door is in good shape!

Yeah, I have to download the pics from the camera. Probably tomorrow.

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Good find and post those pics Dave

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Ok here is the pics I took. Gotta love the custom Headliner! LOL!







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wished i saw this car eariler... could have saved $100 and just put yard stick in my car lol

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cleaned up lower part of panel ,, started on one of the moldings needs a bit more polishing but what a difference already003-23.jpg



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pretty nice shape....lot better then I thought it would be.

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Doug! that came out awesome!! great job!

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That panel cleaned up nice

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very nice Doug

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Nice job cleaning those up.

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