Hi, I'm a new member that has purchased the 74 shown in what hopefully will be 'before' pictures taken by the previous owner. I live in Austin and will be picking this car up from Chicago in a few weeks. It is solid in the trunk and suspension attachment areas, but has a few small spots in the rockers that will need some attention. The paint is original and it has 36,000 miles on it. I hope to make it into a fun weekend car that will look stock other than the Cromodora CD-30s I have purchased for it. I'm not sure yet what performance upgrades I might end up doing. It runs fine now, but more power is always a nice thing... This forum has been a great resource! I've had a bunch of questions since I have not owned an X1/9 in over 30 years and reading the threads in this forum has helped a lot!