Cutlass in Calgary

[Longroof79]

Another potentially cool car bites the dust....how sad!

 

[olds307 and 403]

Those 79 and 80 aren't big money cars but that one looked too nice for that fate. Wasn't a 79 awhile back in Regina at Buck's? I think the problem with the 79 and 80 cars are lesser known and almost look like homemade sticker and paint cars.

 

[Jeff Blagden]

it is not a clone 3AR47 is the correct numbers for a 1980 442

 

[Injectedcutty]

Another potentially cool car bites the dust....how sad!

I believe D will leave with a good stash of parts though...in a sense that 442 has become a donor and it's legacy will live on so to speak!

 

[Longroof79]

Scott,
As sad as it is to see a nice rare car being scrapped, at least the parts will go to keeping other cars like it, or similar on the road and out of the junkyard...much like an organ donor.

 

[pagrunt]

Shame someone couldn't rescue the whole car with out being over charged by the yard.

 

[Rktpwrd]

Shame someone couldn't rescue the whole car with out being over charged by the yard.

As soon as I found out it was a real, genuine 442 I inquired about purchasing the entire car.
They wouldn't sell it to me unless it was in parts only, no ifs ands or buts.

Such a shame and waste. It may look like a "paint and sticker" car, but it's still rare and now there's one less of them out there.

I grabbed what I could use off of it, and that was it. It wasn't in as good a shape as it appears in the pics, but it was definitely still saveable. It felt somewhat wrong and sacrilege to pull parts off it, but if they won't sell it to ya, what else do you do? Might as well at least have it live on in other forms with the parts it donates...
🙁

 

[Clutch]

As soon as I found out it was a real, genuine 442 I inquired about purchasing the entire car.
They wouldn't sell it to me unless it was in parts only, no ifs ands or buts.

Such a shame and waste. It may look like a "paint and sticker" car, but it's still rare and now there's one less of them out there.

I grabbed what I could use off of it, and that was it. It wasn't in as good a shape as it appears in the pics, but it was definitely still saveable. It felt somewhat wrong and sacrilege to pull parts off it, but if they won't sell it to ya, what else do you do? Might as well at least have it live on in other forms with the parts it donates...
🙁

That car looks nicer than my daughter's what a shame

 

[Clutch]

Clutch, no wheels, tires, center caps or anything else on or in it. Only evidence they were ever there is there's some of the special 442 wheel specific lug nuts still inside the car. Sorry dude.

I did get these for ya tho:

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Thank you sir how was the interior? My daughter's Hurst Olds need seats and door panels not that I could afford them or the shipping right now

 

[Injectedcutty]

As soon as I found out it was a real, genuine 442 I inquired about purchasing the entire car.
They wouldn't sell it to me unless it was in parts only, no ifs ands or buts.

Such a shame and waste. It may look like a "paint and sticker" car, but it's still rare and now there's one less of them out there.

I grabbed what I could use off of it, and that was it. It wasn't in as good a shape as it appears in the pics, but it was definitely still saveable. It felt somewhat wrong and sacrilege to pull parts off it, but if they won't sell it to ya, what else do you do? Might as well at least have it live on in other forms with the parts it donates...
🙁

FWIW, at least you were able to save some parts from becoming recycled nonsense! We all know that the stuff you rescued now has a good place to call home 🙂.