So One is Company and Three is a Crowd? My 1988 and 1991 Chevrolet Sprint Turbos

Well, as indicated in my 1987 Chevrolet Sprint Turbo restoration blog these cars can kind of grow on a person. My constant searching of the web led me to these two above.............Could it be an addiction? I just love these cars and want to preserve them as long as possible..........They are the HYBRIDS of their time!!!

The red Sprint Turbo is a 1991 and near mint condition and the white Sprint Turbo is a 1988, near showroom condition.

The 1991 Sprint Turbo as shown above I found on my scouring of http://www.craigslist.com/ , located in the Prince Edward Island classifieds. Emails were exchanged and we agreed to a price, and off went the several day transaction for the wire of funds. Now being in Wisconsin I am not very close to Prince Edward Island http://www.gov.pe.ca/ as anyone could plainly see. I am not sure how many KM's, but it would be a couple thousand miles I am thinking.

The husband and wife that I purchased this from screened me first to see if I was worthy of purchasing the car. I had to be "tested"..............They said there was a line of people around the Island waiting to purchase this car, but as soon as they asked 'how it handled?' in the winter, the couple would then decline the offer. This car has never seen snow, salt, maybe and occasional rain, but otherwise has been babied and stored away since they purchased it new and they only wanted to sell it to somebody who could prove they would take care of it and not butcher it.

Well, I passed!!!! They were so happy that I cherished these cars and it would be going to a good home that they extended the offer to trailer it to Toronto where their family reunion was. So, with a date set I met them at a hotel near the Toronto airport, having flown in myself. We met, did our transaction and the Chevy Sprint Turbo was mine!!!

One more day in Toronto and then fuel the Turbo up for a drive to its new home in Wisconsin!! I drove down from Toronto and through Detroit, hit the "bottom" of Lake Michigan and up through Chicago, then Milwaukee and home............600 and some odd miles and she ran like a champ!!! People were rubbernecking many times to get a look at the car they could 'just not put their finger on'.

Since owning it I have done a few maintenance's, various wheels and tires to find the "right" ones, and then just an oil change of Synthetic every season before storage. This is truly a rare car.

My white 1988 Chevrolet Sprint Turbo came from California; one owner and had never been out of the same town of Lancaster. I found this for sale on a classified system call the California Recyclers. The old timer who had it just had not been using it. Another car that has most records and is all there. Rare functioning A/C and an even rarer typical color stripe interior but with dark charcoal carpet and trim. I am thinking this might have been one of the last 1988 Sprint Turbos' of the boat in 1988. I have never come across the factory combo of this. If you go back to my 1987 Sprint restoration blog, you will see the ever common color stripe with light grey. Very strange..............


Here is a set of black hubcaps I tried out and then soon shelved when a set of alloys came available for it. That is my 2007 Acura TSX in the rear............I love this car!! It is my near BMW or Lexus!!!