Cutlass restoration

[koshergrl]

 

[Borillar]

Nice. You'll have to post a picture once it is finished. A good buddy of mine had a 442.

 

[koshergrl]

It's going to be a while, this is his project car. It's at my house...he gets to work on it a couple of times a month, but I live 55 miles away, his girl is pregnant, and he works like a dog, sometimes 7 days a week.

It has come a long way though...the body is a work in progress but this thing is a serious monster under the hood.

 

[Intense]

Thread Cleaned. Further Trolling here will be followed by vacations.

 

[freedombecki]

Wow. That looks like a lot of work. Hope he can finish it with his schedule and expectant wife. Maybe you can have them over on a long weekend sometime in the near future.

One of my girlfriends in Wyoming had a Cutlass, I think. It looked like this one (well, same color, but the hood wasn't the same):

 

[koshergrl]

Oh, it rolls now. It just looks funny...and there's no seats, haha. He spins it around whenever he's here.

When it will be finished...hmmm, good question. He works hard on it and has everything he needs, but he's just one guy who works and lives 55 miles from where it's parked.

 

[koshergrl]

We call it "The Family Car" haha. He has the spoiler for it, too.

 

[Sunni Man]

Nice!! .........

 

[Borillar]

We call it "The Family Car" haha. He has the spoiler for it, too.

Spoiler? Is this a Hurst/Olds with a 455? I think they used something like that as a pace car for one of the early 70's Indy races. Nice car.

 

[Sallow]

My brother use to have an F85 442.

That was a butt ugly car..but it was freakin fast.

 

[koshergrl]

It's an awesome car, he's put it together almost from the ground up. I can't tell you the particulars...and it's not because I haven't heard all about it. I know the engine is amazing, and completely rebuilt, along with the transmission.
Ulitimately he'll go into business for himself, and that car will be the company car. He toys with selling it, but we won't let him...he needs to finish it, and by the time he does, he should be just about ready to start his own business, so we can actually use the car as advertisement.

 

[koshergrl]

And yeah, it's fast.

 

[koshergrl]

He doesn't call it an Olds, though..he calls it a cutlass.

 

[Jarlaxle]

We call it "The Family Car" haha. He has the spoiler for it, too.

Spoiler? Is this a Hurst/Olds with a 455? I think they used something like that as a pace car for one of the early 70's Indy races. Nice car.

It's an 80's G-body...original engine would have been a 4bbl Olds 307, 150HP at the most.

 

[koshergrl]

I'll have to ask him. He's only told me about a thousand times.

It's a 79.

 

[bayoubill]

great car...

'bout 25 years ago, I drove one of these, cross-country, from Louisiana to New Brunswick...

and then, soon after arriving in NB, survived a head-on collision in it...

 

[Jarlaxle]

I'll have to ask him. He's only told me about a thousand times.

It's a 79.

Original engine would be a 260 or 350 Olds, or a Buick V6, then. (If it's a 4bbl carb, it's a 350 Olds.) In that era, it might have had a Chevy 305.

 

[koshergrl]

He'll be here working on it tonight, I will make him write it down for me...maybe I'll take a couple of pics of it.

 

[Jarlaxle]

Won't help, if you mean the engine...260 and 350 look the same.

 

[koshergrl]

No I can't tell but he'll know; he put it in.

It's a 350. And there's something special about the tranny, too. Something special about it. He says it's ready to paint now...my boat is getting hauled off on Monday and the $$ is going to fund the materials.