| Thanks for your help - It is almost done.
When I bought this 88, I think my wife and family thought I was crazy. It didn't run, the sun had nearly distroyed the interior and exterior, the tires were so rotten that it could not even roll onto a flat bed wrecker - but - I have wanted one of these cars since I saw it as a pre-release at a car show in Miami. The sad part is that years of deterioration was due solely to a bad crank sensor. In a very short time it was running. I have replaced and repaired things, although not all myself, mostly through the guidance and direction from the members here. I search threads and pull information, print it off, and give it to my mechanic when he was scratching his head. If I could not find a thread - someone was always willing to advise or give me the benefit of their wisdom through experience.
Today, I picked it up from the body shop. I replaced the right side interior door panel and touch screen that I purchased from Jim (thanks for getting them to me before you went away for a week), and brought it home. It is not perfect yet, nor may it ever be, but it is truly a beautiful piece of hand crafted machinery where everything works. When we pulled it out of the bay at the body shop, literally two people stopped to admire the car. I had laminated my window sticker and it was laying in the back. Everyone had to inspect it as well and it almost made me feel like I was having a private showing. I stopped to get gas on the way home, my father was following my in my truck, and it took forever to get away from the pump. I stopped at Advanced Auto Parts and three of the workers had to come see the finished project. I felt like a 16 year old kid that got his first car - all shined up and proud. I almost sounded like and expert as I was telling about the history of not only this car, but the model in general. All things that I have learned either here or through links from this forum.
I am not sure what I am going to do with the car. It may be a driver so I can enjoy the experience or I may just store it and take it to the local shows. (If the latter, I still have a lot more to do.) Either way, I am sure in the upcoming months and years that I will still be pulling from everyone's experiences and hope that I will be able to attend some of the meets where I can put faces with names, and extend a hand as a token of appreciation.
PS - The Regal GS Rims actually do look great on the car, but I am planning to send off the original ones to be refinished anyway.
Thank you all.
__________________  Marc
"Bringing a 1988 Reatta back to life."
Red/Tan Coupe
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(Italian made Harley Davidson) 
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