DomJoseph

I need a nice, clean center console lid or complete console (black) for my 1986 Conquest TSi asap. My car has a manual transmission if this makes any difference. Please, no junk, this is for a restoration project. I have a Paypal account, please PM me if you can help. Thanks! Dom

PM sent, thanks so much for your help! Dom

Great. I'll wait to hear from you. Meanwhile, let me know how you'd like to get paid. I truly hate Paypal since they did absolutely nothing about some fraudulent activity on my (former) account. However, I can get you a cashier's check or money order drawn on my local bank or whatever you'd feel comfortable with. This isn't going on a "show" car, but my nice, clean and very stock 1986 TSi that I've owned since new. Still, I want to make sure that there are no dents, dings, or scrapes on the unit when it gets here. I once ordered a performance exhaust for my '94 3000 GT VR4, and the box came to my door with the muffler's tips poking out of the box, totally trashed, like someone dragged them several miles on asphalt.

Well, I'd say that's about right. I bought one new about 12 years ago for my 'Quest, and I think that's around what I paid for it. Next question; Do you want to sell it? How good are you at packaging, and where will this be shipped from? I'll be happy to pay your asking price plus freight.

Whatever you can do, I'd greatly appreciate it. Dom

Great. New old stock! Where is it and how much $$ ?? I'm in Portland Oregon, shipping might be expensive but I don't care at this point. I was trying to get my exhaust people to graft on a Magnaflow 14815 oval SS muffler with dual tips to replicate the original, but it's an odd fit and I don't want my car to sound like some ricer Civic. Please get back to me, I'm seriously interested. Thanks!

I need a clean, rust free and undamaged stock Conquest TSi muffler for my '86 wide body. Please let me know what you have, and how much you want for it.

Post Turtle While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year old Texas rancher, whose hand was caught in a gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic got around to Obama and his bid to be our President. The old rancher said, 'Well, ya know, Obama is a post turtle. Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a 'post turtle' was. The old rancher said, 'When you're driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a 'post turtle'.' The old rancher saw a puzzled look on the doctor's face, so he continued to explain. 'You know he didn't get up there by himself, he doesn't belong up there, he doesn't know what to do while he is up there, and you just wonder what kind of a dumb a** put him up there to begin with.'

If expense is no object, use a car cover made from Kimberly Clark Evolution IV fabric. Repels water, breathes to allow moisture to evaporate, tough and tear resistant. Wolf Industries. Cover King makes some very nice covers also. I use 'em on my cars indoor and out.

If it's off either way, it won't pull a sick ***** off a toilet. :rofl3:

BTW, as little as I drive, I'm doing a lot more for the environment than my neighbor "Captain Planet" in his Toyota Prius, who drives 100 miles RT every day to his job in Salem Oregon. As a truly funny aside, I found a Prius in the LA area with the powertrain and drivetrain including batteries pulled out of it for some weird CalTech project. It's a rolling chassis, and I'm thinking of snatching it up. A replacement battery pack is $4,000+ according to my local Toyota dealer. A GM LS2 400HP crate motor can be had for less than that (my cost). I think I can mod the car and have my sheetmetal guys fab a tunnel in that Prius, and I can do a RWD arrangement with a narrowed Ford rear end with that 6.2L V8 shoved under the hood. Just doing my part to save the planet. :rofl3: http://www.useless-knowledge.com/columnist...i/article6.html

My purpose here is to glean whatever parts or information I can about the cars we own and love, not to engage in political bashing and a resulting flame war. BTW, that "silly fella" in my avatar is a better choice deceased IMHO than any of the three current contenders living and breathing. I'd vote for him now if I could.

If that's true, then check to make absolutely sure you do have a 5 gallon container. If it is indeed 5 gallons, then report the station owner to your state's attorney general. Gas pumps MUST accurately dispense according to federal standards of weights and measures.

I've just about had enough of Oregon's idiot governor and his absurd idea that mandating E10 or 10% ethanol blend gasoline year round is going to cut "greenhouse" gases and fix the global whining...er "warming" problem. My cars have significantly lower fuel economy on this garbage, averaging between 10 to 16% greater fuel consumption per tankfull, and have exhibited warm up driveability issues. My service customers mirror my experiences using this stuff, and on OBDII cars I'm noticing more and more complaints about poor driveability and check engine lamps illuminated. Now this flawed "science" and ill conceived legislative nonsense is backfiring, and our local government is scrambling around for a quick fix and backtracking on this stupid policy. Until then, at $4.00 a gallon for unleaded, I'm no longer buying my gas at any of the area filling stations. I've been travelling across the bridge to Washington state, and filling up where there isn't an ethanol blend requirement. Today, I bought a 54 gallon drum of 103 octane unleaded race gas and filled up all of my motorcycles with it, and topped up the 'quest's tank. This stuff is far more stable than the crap you buy at the pump, and mixed 50/50 I've immediately noticed that my bikes start and warm up easier, and need less time on choke in the morning. My 'quest flew through the I/M test friday .05% CO and 55 PPM HC, and runs like a banshee. I don't have to commute, and as little as I drive (about 100-150 miles a month) since just about everything is delivered to me at my shop, I can afford to fill up my cars at nearly $12 a gallon with race gas.

First wide body TSi on the west coast according to Chrysler zone archives. Shipped from Nagoya, Japan Oct 1985.

Hey Scotty....It would be interesting to note that my widebody car also has the '85 intercooled flat body badging. The last car I saw the same emblems on was the Dodge Conquest / Technica that was the owner's demo at the Dodge dealership where I worked as a technician over 22 years ago.

I'm definitely interested. I want to update my '86 TSi chrome button panel to the late style....just not 100% sure if it will interchange with the old one on my car. Do you know if this unit is functional? Almost sounds like a dealer warrantee in your description. PM me if you have additional info. Dom

That would be your center link.

Funny thing, I forgot that I even registered on this site in the first place a few years ago. Things changed, I bought a new car, and then thought about selling the 'Quest. I advertised it for $4500 and found a buyer, but then backed out at the last minute. Just couldn't do it. It was like the droopy headlight doors on the old car were looking at me sad, like "Don't you love me any more? I know your new sweetheart has curvy lines, more horsepower and extra cylinders, and room for you and your friends to go to the strip club in one car, but I thought we had something"....... Wasn't until I parked my 'Quest next to a bunch of wild eyed punks in their riced out tuner cars at a local Starbucks, and I walked out with my Chai Latte in hand and noticed most of the group standing around it. It was question and answer time for about an hour. "Rear wheel drive? Really?" ....so on and so forth. I was emboldened by this sudden swell of car pride and then took on the task of restoring it to its former glory. I come to this site for encouragement only.

I concur. This "ghetto style" thing must be dealt with swiftly and severely. People caught driving cars like this should be publicly ridiculed and then beaten.

I wouldn't mind getting together with a few other Questers at a meet this Summer. Do a club gathering and barbeque sometime. Any ideas?

Over 7,800 posts... hmm. You must live here! :eek1bluegreen:

Yeah. I guess so, but nowhere near your 2,400+ posts. I am in total awe.

I'm a rotten guy. I just told this story with a straight face to my 12 and 14 year old neices. Almost made them cry.

Nah, just a bit of humor. Sick humor, my favorite kind. :biglaugha: