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Looks really clean - congratulations!
Since your pics didn't show any rust, the only place I would look would be under the rear bumper, where the sheet metal bends downward below the tailgate. If that's clean, you're in great shape.
A few comments...
- If you don't intend to carry stuff on the roof rack, remove the cross bars. You gain about 0.0000004% in drag reduction, but you'll notice less whistling at highway speeds. IMO it gives the car a neater look, too (did that on my white '92 245).
- Someone replaced the OEM speakers in the front doors, but did a clean job. They probably used 4" speakers since the OEM was an odd size, and few 5-1/2" speakers fit without customizing. The square grilles are from '90 and earlier. The rear speaker mounts look very classy!
- Now that the car is away from the snow belt, and assuming it's sunny where you live, clean your dashboard, use the best vinyl protectant you can find, and buy a dash mat. Sun is the enemy of the vinyl dash tops and there are few (besides mine) that live in sunny climes that don't have cracked dashes.
- That looks like the original 'donut' spare. By now, it's almost guaranteed to be useless. Find a good used steel wheel and mount an inexpensive 195/70-14 on it. A larger tire might be too big to fit in the spare well.
- I couldn't tell from the photos where the accessory gauges are mounted. They're in pods as if for A-pillar mounting, but it didn't look like that's where they were.
The car appears to have been very well taken care of, and the clean speaker and accessory gauge installations and the upper strut braces give me the sense the previous owner was an enthusiast. Maybe there are some IPD sway bars mounted underneath??? The rear bar looked stock but I couldn't tell for sure.
Now for some 16-inch alloys, fat tires and a VX cam...
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