Those cars are freaking money pits. Buy an SL. You can buy a decent 107 for what you'll put into one of those gas hogs. The last TA I bought as a resto project, I paid 2500 for it and then spent 10 grand putting it into shape. It looked and ran great for about a year, then it turned into a POS again. When the car ran right, it was a blast with the T-tops off, but they just aren't good cars. GM just didn't make any good cars from 72 to around 1997 or so, none of the American car makers did. I traded the thing for a 77 280E, and drove it for about nine years, pretty much trouble free - some front end work, a water pump - and I started attracting a better class of women.