This is my first post to an Avanti forum. I've wanted an Avanti since I was about 13 years old (I'm 56 now) when I saw one sitting in front of a house near where I grew up. Owner wouldn't sell. Sat there for years then disappeared, typical story I guess.
Well, I have managed to get my act together and have been looking for an Avanti or early Avanti II for several months. I finally found one and picked it up two weeks ago last Saturday. Now that I have it home, I've been in process of cleaning it up, and determining what works and what needs help. Here's a little bit of info about it before I get to some questions.
Year is 1967 - serial# RQA-0256
Olympic Bronze with brown interior. Been repainted, new interior looks brand new. Engine was replaced in 2001 with a crate 350 HO 330hp engine. Transmission replaced about 10 years ago with a 700R4. The car has only been driven about 2000 miles since about 2001 from what I can tell from the receipts. Have all the paper work on the engine including the manual for it. Lots of receipts. Has been a So. Cal car it's entire life. Underside is beautiful, no rust anywhere, original hog troughs.
Some issues with the car are:
Driver power window doesn't work. I have a receipt for new window motors about 10 years ago - about 1K miles since then.
Tachometer does not work.
Vacuum gauge does not work
No interior lights work (dome and courtesy lights that is). Most dash lights work.
No right turn signals
Power antenna works when I test it, but doesn't with the later stereo.
All outside insignia's have been removed - would like to put some back on
Needs new tires.
I'll be tackling these issues one at a time, starting first with the tires due to them being too weather cracked (or old age) I don't want to drive on them.
My questions I hope someone can help me with...
How the heck do you get that big arm rest off of the door panel so I can get in and evaluate my window problem. I see no attachment screws anywhere on it. Took the little pull cup out of it to see if there was anything under it, no joy. How do the door panels come off?
Can any one help with with my tachometer issue? My engine has a HEI distributor with the tach connection on the side of it. I found a wire there that was disconnected so I connected it back up, no joy. Also, how do you pull the tach out of the dash? Been reading about a sender for these tach's, what is that about? I've always only hooked a tach to the '-' coil terminal or the HEI tach output.
That's probably enough for now. Any info / help would be appreciated. Thx for reading.
Hello - New Avanti II owner with some questions.
in 1965-83 Avanti
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Hello all,
This is my first post to an Avanti forum. I've wanted an Avanti since I was about 13 years old (I'm 56 now) when I saw one sitting in front of a house near where I grew up. Owner wouldn't sell. Sat there for years then disappeared, typical story I guess.
Well, I have managed to get my act together and have been looking for an Avanti or early Avanti II for several months. I finally found one and picked it up two weeks ago last Saturday. Now that I have it home, I've been in process of cleaning it up, and determining what works and what needs help. Here's a little bit of info about it before I get to some questions.
Year is 1967 - serial# RQA-0256
Olympic Bronze with brown interior. Been repainted, new interior looks brand new. Engine was replaced in 2001 with a crate 350 HO 330hp engine. Transmission replaced about 10 years ago with a 700R4. The car has only been driven about 2000 miles since about 2001 from what I can tell from the receipts. Have all the paper work on the engine including the manual for it. Lots of receipts. Has been a So. Cal car it's entire life. Underside is beautiful, no rust anywhere, original hog troughs.
Some issues with the car are:
Driver power window doesn't work. I have a receipt for new window motors about 10 years ago - about 1K miles since then.
Tachometer does not work.
Vacuum gauge does not work
No interior lights work (dome and courtesy lights that is). Most dash lights work.
No right turn signals
Power antenna works when I test it, but doesn't with the later stereo.
All outside insignia's have been removed - would like to put some back on
Needs new tires.
I'll be tackling these issues one at a time, starting first with the tires due to them being too weather cracked (or old age) I don't want to drive on them.
My questions I hope someone can help me with...
How the heck do you get that big arm rest off of the door panel so I can get in and evaluate my window problem. I see no attachment screws anywhere on it. Took the little pull cup out of it to see if there was anything under it, no joy. How do the door panels come off?
Can any one help with with my tachometer issue? My engine has a HEI distributor with the tach connection on the side of it. I found a wire there that was disconnected so I connected it back up, no joy. Also, how do you pull the tach out of the dash? Been reading about a sender for these tach's, what is that about? I've always only hooked a tach to the '-' coil terminal or the HEI tach output.
That's probably enough for now. Any info / help would be appreciated. Thx for reading.
Tom