My new to me 77 colt

airwerks · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2011 9:00 pm

Recently picked this up, lowered it a bit more and fixed a few things. Going to do daily driver duty now, going to be looking for Mitsu Lancer badges for it soon. Might do a low boost turbo setup (no cutting, it's too clean to do that to it) this winter for a project. It came with a maint. log book since it had 587 miles on it- I'm actually going to be only the second registered owner! The engineer that owned it changed the oil every 3k miles OR 3 months... there's some times where it only had 800 miles on it but since it had been 3 months he changed the oil.

Garant · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2011 9:14 pm

wow that's nice!

might i suggest: next order of business: mount bumpers closer to body

RaptorReed · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2011 9:17 pm

Nice find! Where are you located? :tu:

airwerks · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2011 9:45 pm

Gaargh! New forum and I forgot to put my loc in. Done now. Canby, Oregon.

I'll have to read up on bumper mods- the bumpers are one of the few things I don't care for that much on this car. It's the newest "old" car I have had and big USDM bumpers have always turned me off from the 70's......

RaptorReed · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2011 10:10 pm

City hunter on here is just north of you about an hour or so, if you ever want to go turbo talk to him! :mrgreen:

Nath76LA · **Posted:** Fri Aug 26, 2011 4:20 am

Welcome to the site.

beautiful Colt/Lancer you have there. That is in excellent condition.

damageinc86 · **Posted:** Mon Dec 12, 2011 11:15 pm

damn I love how clean that interior is, really dig the red white scheme. How's this one doing lately?

4G63BT · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2011 8:33 am

nice two tone combination very unique..good job..welcome to JNC world.. :tu:

Costa · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2011 8:02 pm

Nice Colt!!!! :tu:

airwerks · **Posted:** Tue Dec 27, 2011 6:14 pm

Thanks- motor just gave up though. Swapping in a Swift GT DOHC / Samurai trans setup with a TD05H now to get it back to daily duty.

damageinc86 · **Posted:** Wed Jan 25, 2012 12:33 am

Let's do an Oregon cruise! haha.

robsimmons · **Joined:** Tue Jan 10, 2012 10:51 am **Posts:** 6

Sorry to read about the engine failure. What gave up the ghost?

I will have my '78 in a little under three weeks. Same Red & White Special you have. I will likely remove the side stripes the same as you have done.

airwerks · **Posted:** Tue Jan 31, 2012 2:39 pm

Oregon cruise will have to be postponed! We just flooded out pretty bad, had 4' in the shop and 7' in the house. I got the colt out, but a lot of other stuff went under. My 60 ghia, 57 oval rag beetle, The Swift GT engine and turbo I JUST WENT THROUGH for the colt, Tig welder, etc. Cleaning up now, and then I have to go through and clean out the innards of the new motor.

The old engine lost oil pressure, and smokes bad now. Irregular idle too- ran good enough to drive it out of danger though.

For an idea, my swift GT in the pic is up on jackstands (I thought that would get it out of the water, that was retarded) and the truck in the pic is lifted and on 33's. The shop is the highest point of our property. :cry:

evoixmr · **Posted:** Wed Feb 01, 2012 7:26 am

wow sorry to hear. it is hard to have flooding when all your precious belongings are wasted:(

damageinc86 · **Posted:** Thu Feb 02, 2012 11:16 pm

WOW

I got some video of it flooding bad in downtown salem, but dude, that is insane! At least you got something out. Sorry to see that. How's everything going so far?

airwerks · **Posted:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 10:41 am

We should be done cleaning / sorting this weekend. Just got the flood ins advance check, so that helps get the ball moving. Probably one more dump run left, then it can start to get back to normal!

damageinc86 · **Posted:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 12:51 pm

Well there ya go, that helps a little I guess. That's one of the cleanest colts I've ever seen, I'm glad you got it out in time

juni · **Posted:** Sun Feb 19, 2012 8:47 pm

That looks all too familiar where I come from. Hope no one got hurt too.

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