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Rocket Power
09-25-2005, 09:18 PM
This thing is clean. Needs the car-bark removed,headliner fixed, front bumper replaced (bent) and the column repaired, but man is it loaded. Power everything INCLUDING power rear vent windows. We just got home a little while ago and had it running in about 10 min with a new battery and some gas. :headbang

Now I need to throw some wheels on it and the exhaust . :thumbsup

Burgandy85SS
09-25-2005, 09:38 PM
Cool glad to hear its home. What kind of wheels are you putting on it?

Rocket Power
09-25-2005, 10:07 PM
Probably just some Olds Rallys for right now, better than 3 wire caps :rolf
I also have some aluminum slots and some American Racing tailgunners but I think the slots are a bit too 70's and I don't know how the tailgunners would look on it.
http://www.tirefactory.net/772B.jpg

PB86MCSS
09-25-2005, 10:29 PM
Glad it is going well with it. Sounds like you won't have much invested for a neato rust free daily g-body, can't argue that :headbang . I'm weird enough that I'd be interested in checking it out sometime ;).

Yooformula
09-25-2005, 11:28 PM
Nice! Get any pics yet?

Rocket Power
09-25-2005, 11:43 PM
No pics yet, we got it off the trailer spent 10 minutes getting it started and then it started downpouring.

The guy I got it from was a SUPER nice guy too. Me, my buddy and my wife spent a little while shooting the breeze with him.
Oh and it has an aluminum hood too. :banana :headbang

Rocket Power
09-25-2005, 11:58 PM
Oh yeah, I'll be putting my Pypes X-pipe and Race Pro muffs on it too. :thumbsup

PB86MCSS
09-26-2005, 12:18 AM
So what are the plans for it? Daily, or keep it salt free and make a cruiser out of it ;).

jbiscuit
09-26-2005, 11:46 AM
big block olds motor going into it? :)

Rocket Power
09-26-2005, 09:51 PM
So what are the plans for it? Daily, or keep it salt free and make a cruiser out of it ;).
Well the original plan was to make it the daily. BTW it fired right up again today , hee hee hee [/giddy little school girl]
But on the way home me and my buddy were talking, he said I should get a winter beater because it's so clean or at least have it undercoated. I don't know what I am gonna do now, I don't want it to rot, but I did buy it to drive. Right now I am leaning towards driving it and just washing it all the time, aand hoping one winter won't kill it , then getting a beater next year. Unless I come across a super cheap Escort or something.

Rocket Power
09-26-2005, 09:57 PM
big block olds motor going into it? :)
I have learned to never say never. ;)
But I don't plan on it right now.

PB86MCSS
09-26-2005, 10:18 PM
I'd say get a winter beater too :). Too clean to get all salted and rotted out, drive it daily spring through fall. I initially got my LS with the plan to daily it too, but its too clean to see get rusted up.

Rocket Power
09-28-2005, 05:45 PM
Well we just bought a truck last night to take the place of the blue Eighty Eight, so I don't think I'll have extra scratch to buy a beater. I wonder if I get it undercoated and wash it every week if it would be ok this winter.

Memphis
09-28-2005, 08:08 PM
I'm sure I could hook you up with a nice winter beater!!

PB86MCSS
09-28-2005, 08:11 PM
Hook me up too :). Partial trade of the GTA's for a beater? Cav prefered ;).

I'd think one winter the thing will survive if you keep it up, but I'd sure feel guilty driving an older rust free car through salt :eek: .

Burgandy85SS
09-28-2005, 09:29 PM
I agree get a beater for winter, couple hundered dollar car just for a few months.

Rocket Power
09-29-2005, 10:55 AM
Yeah at max it would see just this winter, The thing is I made a deal to downsize the fleet so I could get this one. :rolf
So adding a beater wouldn't bring the car count down. And I am running out of room here. :goof

PB86MCSS
09-29-2005, 10:50 PM
:pics

Get any of the wagon yet?

Rocket Power
09-30-2005, 07:29 AM
:pics

Get any of the wagon yet?
I am waiting till I put some wheels on it :goof
Black steelies with bad woodgrain don't make it look good, but if it has decent wheels to set off the bad woodgrain, then you have something :rolf

Rocket Power
10-02-2005, 04:47 PM
All right I took some pics today. I have been sick so I haven't put wheels on it, so just use your imagination and pretend I have some 17's up on it. :goof

I was feeling a bit better so I started to heat gun off the woodgrain till my fingers got sore. The paint under the wood on the fender is so thin in spot you can see primer :eek: and they shot some brown around the gas door :mad:

But the paint on the rest so far is very nice, you'll probably see some of the dirt that came from under the chrome trim too :D

http://usera.imagecave.com/vista461/100_1139.JPG
http://usera.imagecave.com/vista461/100_1140.JPG

PB86MCSS
10-02-2005, 06:11 PM
Is that all dirt, or any rust on the body? Hard to tell ;). Looks good though :D. Put my GTA's on it, that would look slick :).

Rocket Power
10-02-2005, 07:10 PM
Is that all dirt, or any rust on the body? Hard to tell ;). Looks good though :D. Put my GTA's on it, that would look slick :).

Yeah the GTA's would look nice I bet. Then it could look fast, even though with 2.29 gears and a 307 it won't be . :rolf

Haven't found a speck of rust yet :headbang The brown stuff along the bottom of the doors and around the wheel wells is vinyl "wood" I didn't get off yet. Need to pull the trim to get it off.
Some dirt came out from the chrome near the top of the fender/window sill area when I pulled the "wood" out from under it. That brown gas door is gay as hell though :goof Stupid wood grain. I still have to pull some trim off to get the "wood " out from under it but at least now I can see what it'll look like w/o wood.

Rocket Power
10-18-2005, 06:02 PM
Well here it is so far
http://usera.imagecave.com/vista461/wagonsmall.jpg
Got most of the wood grain off, just need to pull the "Cutlass Cruiser" emblems and get that stuff.
Put on some 14" SSIII's I had and some huge 236/60 14's in the back. :goof
It needs bigger tires but hey I was working with what I had :rolf

It's getting there and as soon as I get new clips to hold on the trim, it's going back on.

PB86MCSS
10-19-2005, 08:33 PM
Looks good! :)

Rocket Power
10-19-2005, 09:21 PM
It may even get the 442 wheels off Angies car in a while :headbang
She said I could have them if I bought he some new ones when her car is done. It's going under the knife this winter/next year.

Rocket Power
10-29-2005, 02:27 PM
Well I tried changing out the shiter bowl and was unsuccessful while the column was in the car, so I pulled it out. The I figured I just pull the column out of the four door, paint it and slap it in, well it doesn't have cruise :mad: and WTF ?!?! no tilt wheel?!?!?! This is the first G-olds I have had w/o tilt wheel. What kinda goof orders a/c and power locks/seat/windows and doesn't get cruise or tilt :fire

So I am not sure yet if I am going to just throw the 4dr column in and leave till spring or if I am going to piece the shifter bowl into the original.

I thought about swapping in the buckets/console and floor shift column from the 442 but it's a darker maroon(claret) and the wagon has a more red color interior. :(

Next up after the column is rear gear. 2.29 is great for the salt flats but not for me, unfortunately my parts GP has 2.41's, not worth the effort. I have to check the 4 dr yet.

PB86MCSS
10-29-2005, 03:16 PM
I heard that its a bit harder to steal a non tilt column g-body, the actuator rod is harder to get at or something. At least thats a benefit maybe ;).

Memphis
10-29-2005, 05:59 PM
I'm fairly sure I have a column for the car. if you get desperate, gimme a call and I'll check.