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!!!

Fueled Paradigm: The 1987 Sprint Turbo and what fueled the "Fueled Paradigm"

Fueled Paradigm: The 1987 Sprint Turbo and what fueled the "Fueled Paradigm"

Just a car guy: Very odd way to treat a Hispano - Suiza

Just a car guy: Very odd way to treat a Hispano - Suiza

1926 Studebaker Bix Six ...........My father's early 1970's barn find

This car my father found well before I was born..........The lore is that he traded a fire truck chassis for this 1926 Studebaker...........I believe it is called the EP Big Six Brougham. I guess that the chickens were all over it ..............As I find the pictures again I will post them. The roof was gone (which is now some fabric roofing material of some kind). The engine was in pieces but all there.........SOLID car, and built literally like at tank.

As it stands today the car is very complete, and my father has done minimal restorations on it (such as the wood wheels with new wide white walls and the various chrome items). Otherwise, it is painted in flat black.

This would be a gorgeous car restored someday...........It runs like a Swiss watch right now, and is kind of fun to navigate as is. What a conversation piece...............I have only ever come across a couple others similar.

This runs an in line six cylinder engine that is enormous, and has lots of low end torque. I have heard the old timers say that they can remember using these for just the running chassis to run various farm equipment.............I could not even imagine what this weighs.

More to come on this as I sift through various picture boxes from over the years......I know those pictures are somewhere of it being dragged out of the barn it was "found in".