So I bought this car with the intention to drive it daily and haul the family in, well I ended up coming across a olds cutlass salon that was very clean locally and buying it. I have zero attachment to salon cars, but they have just fell into my lap. Well now that I have 2, I’m considering a few options for the Buick.
1. Clean it up, make it safe to drive and pass inspection. Sell it and make a few bucks off of it.
2. Gut it, cut as much as weight as I can, and make a really cool street car, possibly a very wishful thinking track car from it.
It’s solid, I’ve crawled around every corner of it. So either way I feel ok to do. I’ve wanted a gutted “race car” my whole life, and I bought it at a price where I have no financial obligation to maintain it to sell. I don’t believe it will be a big money car if I were to bring it back to clean survivor condition?
So….my thought is to strip it of everything that’s unnecessary to its simplistic functions, drop a oddball engine in it, and beat the crap out of it. It’s got an aluminum hood, aluminum decklid, and aluminum rad support. So it just feels like it should be a race car! Either on the back roads or haul it to the closest autocross or road course (1.5-3hr). I’ve done a few LS swaps, and they are super dependable and durable but I’d like something different. The plan is either a Northstar V8, or and Atlas 6 with a 5 or 6 spd manual trans behind it. Super bare bones.
Back to the subject, should this car be preserved, or ran? I’d like to hear honest opinions.
1. Clean it up, make it safe to drive and pass inspection. Sell it and make a few bucks off of it.
2. Gut it, cut as much as weight as I can, and make a really cool street car, possibly a very wishful thinking track car from it.
It’s solid, I’ve crawled around every corner of it. So either way I feel ok to do. I’ve wanted a gutted “race car” my whole life, and I bought it at a price where I have no financial obligation to maintain it to sell. I don’t believe it will be a big money car if I were to bring it back to clean survivor condition?
So….my thought is to strip it of everything that’s unnecessary to its simplistic functions, drop a oddball engine in it, and beat the crap out of it. It’s got an aluminum hood, aluminum decklid, and aluminum rad support. So it just feels like it should be a race car! Either on the back roads or haul it to the closest autocross or road course (1.5-3hr). I’ve done a few LS swaps, and they are super dependable and durable but I’d like something different. The plan is either a Northstar V8, or and Atlas 6 with a 5 or 6 spd manual trans behind it. Super bare bones.
Back to the subject, should this car be preserved, or ran? I’d like to hear honest opinions.
