Is this a good deal on an 82' camaro?

[sroly :]

This car runs needs some fine tuning,The body is straight but the paint is faded and oxidized, The interior is good no rips and tears headliner not so good.It has a 2.8 liter motor (I was told it's a crate motor with about 5k miles) automatic transmission going strong.You can starts and runs but motor is only running on 5 cylinders It has been sitting for while and the gas has probably gone rank.

1982 Chevy Camaro link: http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/cto/921714147.html

My dad knows his way around a car and this winter hes going to get a truck to work on. So I want to try and get a little car to work on as I want to go into mechanics and car restoration.

Few questions that I have right now..

If its running on 5-cylinders and its a v-8, is the motor shot? If it would run would it be able to drive? we live 17 miles from the cars location.

Is this even a good deal?

How would you go about cleaning out a rank gas tank? Or would you have to replace the entire thing?

How much would a paint job cost?

[David K]

the 2.8 is a V6. the V8 would be a 5.0(305ci) or a 5.7(350) if its a crate motor they wasted their money on it. you could drop a V8 in there but would also need to change the trans.. for 300 thats not a bad price. I paid 650 for my firebird ( 1985 with the same engine) I'd bet money that it was a salvage yard engine and not a crate engine though. (if that, its probably just the stock engine.) the 3.1 and 3.4 V6 from the new camaros (91-92 for the 3.1 and 93-96 for the 3.4) can be swaped fairly easily. check out thirdgen.org