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Old 03-10-2010
Hustler Hustler is offline
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That looked like a real nice car, that is too bad, but **** happens. You have multiple options obviously. If you buy it back, which would seem somewhat smart even if you sell it as a roller. I would only stick with it if you are ready to invest a few years in re-doing it. You need to really think about that. Even with a donor car it will take some patience and understanding and hopefully you have some other knowledgeable fox people around locally willing to help. Maybe a good excuse to re-wire it with an aftarmarket ECU etc etc. I'm guessing you can't get that extinguisher residue out of the interior, so might as well just turn it into a pseudo race car. At this point trying to make it like stock seems like a POOR decision even if half these people tell you to do it. You'd have to go find the speedo, interior, steering wheel, etc etc etc. Only you know whats salvageable. These cars are not exclusive enough still to warrant the effort to return it to stock, because as people mentioned it will have the Salvage title etc. It will never be what it once was, but that is not always a bad thing, if you ever had an inkling to do it the way you want without feeling remorse, here is the opportunity. If your plan all along was to enjoy it as a stock 89 saleen and resell it, then maybe the working on it is not a great plan for you. That is something you have to really think about before you get a year into storing it and working on it and getting to the same point where you just walk away from it as a work in progress which won't reflect any time you've put into restoring it back. It might be better to walk away from it and move on if you just wanted to enjoy it as it was. Get the corrected appraisal insurance money, buy it back as salvage and sell it her as a roller or ebay it as a roller. With the interior stripped it could make a decent project for somebody.
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