I hope I haven't bitten off more than I could chew today....
story goes as this:
one of my long time customers/shop owners has had this cutlass sitting outside his shop for about 3 years now, while his customer debated about replacing the blown engine. I let him know that I might be interested in buying it if the owner ever decided to give it up. well, about 6 months ago, he said the owner finall gave up and signed over the title to cover the original diagnostic and storage, and that he was going to make a 1/4 miler out of it.... 2 months ago he let me know that he didn't want to hack it up since it was decent enough, and gave me first dibs.... well as happy as I was (especially for the price he gave me), the wife wasn't to ecstatic about it, and told me that if I bought it, the regal had to go... well, after a couple months of trying to figure out how to have my cake and eat it too (too much into the regal to give up), I decided that I'd put it on the forum's classified for him, and agreed with him a finder's fee. this brings us up to today...
I had taken some pics on my phone, but have been unable to post them anywhere (I'm far from being a tech geek), I figured that I'd stop this morning after the wife dropped her mustang at the dealer for some warranty work, with my camera and take a few pics to put on the site... she took a look at it and decided that it was nice enough for what he wanted out of it, and that she wanted it herself! I talked to him and made the deal, and hopefully will be bringing it home next week sometime.
I haven't fully decided on what to do about the engine... I found a 158k 307 on CL for $300, and would like to keep it BOP, but the guy I'm buying the car from has a 350 sbc with only 20k miles on it that he'll let me have on the cheap... I'm gonna have to think on this one.... pics to follow!
story goes as this:
one of my long time customers/shop owners has had this cutlass sitting outside his shop for about 3 years now, while his customer debated about replacing the blown engine. I let him know that I might be interested in buying it if the owner ever decided to give it up. well, about 6 months ago, he said the owner finall gave up and signed over the title to cover the original diagnostic and storage, and that he was going to make a 1/4 miler out of it.... 2 months ago he let me know that he didn't want to hack it up since it was decent enough, and gave me first dibs.... well as happy as I was (especially for the price he gave me), the wife wasn't to ecstatic about it, and told me that if I bought it, the regal had to go... well, after a couple months of trying to figure out how to have my cake and eat it too (too much into the regal to give up), I decided that I'd put it on the forum's classified for him, and agreed with him a finder's fee. this brings us up to today...
I had taken some pics on my phone, but have been unable to post them anywhere (I'm far from being a tech geek), I figured that I'd stop this morning after the wife dropped her mustang at the dealer for some warranty work, with my camera and take a few pics to put on the site... she took a look at it and decided that it was nice enough for what he wanted out of it, and that she wanted it herself! I talked to him and made the deal, and hopefully will be bringing it home next week sometime.
I haven't fully decided on what to do about the engine... I found a 158k 307 on CL for $300, and would like to keep it BOP, but the guy I'm buying the car from has a 350 sbc with only 20k miles on it that he'll let me have on the cheap... I'm gonna have to think on this one.... pics to follow!
Being that the wife'll be driving this car, I decided to make a cruiser out of it.... (the regal is the bruiser) I ended up re-freshing the 307... ended up needing a crankshaft, and while it was out, I ended up replacing the rings/oil pump/seals.... cylinders weren't excesivley tapered, so I just honed/re-ringed it. there was more oil on it than in it.....
