so i am doing my daily craigslist search and i find a ad for a 442 being parted out, there is a picture of it and i can see that it has t tops and the 442 wheels so i decide to email him to see if it still has the rear end and how much, i am hoping the guy doesnt know what he has and can get it for 100 bucks so and i leave him my number. about 30 minutes after i get off work the guy calls, tells me he got a bunch of emails but i was the only to leave a phone number (thanks god!) and is telling me that he paid 1000 for the car and it had no title so i ask what he wanted for the rear and some other parts. he tells me he hasnt made a list of prices yet and to make a offer so i ask him if he wants to sell the whole car and if so how much, he says hell i would be happy to get a couple hundred out of it. hold on, a couple hundred?!?!? so i tell him i will be there tonight with 200 bucks and he says sold and sounded excited to get rid of it. so since i dont have a truck yet i went through hell to get a truck and had to drive a half hour to get it and go rent a car dolly. i go pick it up and it seems pretty solid but i didnt go into looking at it closly besides making sure the 8.5" rear was still there. so i get this car and i figure if nothing else it is a parts car and i was almost hopeing it was so that the regal would get a new rear end. i get the car home and it is dark but i look it over some, seems pretty clean but it was late so i go in. i get off work the next day so i have sunlight to really look into it, the car was full of dirt, branches, egg corns and other crap but i noticed that the t top metal was vary solid which i did not expect, i check the rockers which around here are always shot, they were solid! so i look at the under body, besides surface rust the floorboards, frame, body mounts and even the passenger side door are all solid! the guy kept the motor, told me it was special because it had a roller cam, like i dont know this? as far as i was concerned he was saving me from having a motor laying around! he left the transmission in it also, score! so you guys are all thinking what good is it without a title! this is good, we live in nebraska, the car came from iowa so it has to be drivable in order to be inspected to get a title since it came from out of state right, he had the title! he just never switched names and was too dumb to figure out that once it was running he could get it switched! wow so i decided that i am swapping the 355 out of my calais and selling it so i can ave a t top 442! i dont know if you guys had seen my posting for installing t tops into my non t top car, well this fixes that problem! oh yea, i figured out that the passenger side quarter from the door jambs back had been professionally replaced so it is flawless and it was done very well. bad news is the rear end is non posi?? the only rust that is any issue is on the drivers side wheel well. heres pics of what it looked like when i got it home, i will get some more of what it looks like after i cleaned it out.
