Step by step-How to convert a Cutlass to a Regal

[88hurstolds]

So what are you gonna do about the quarters and tail panel?
Are you gonna separate the quarters at the factory roof weld and back half the car?
If that's the case it probably would have been easier to swap frames and floors if there was a rust issue underneath.
Regardless kudos on the hard work, that's quite a project!
You definately have a conversation piece when all said and done.

 

[3XBrownCutty]

I've seen another "hybrid" like yours, ant to fix the difference in the quarter lips, he threw on a set of those GNX Fender flares. You could still see the "Boxyness" of the cutlass lip, but definitely not as noticeable.

What are you gonna call it?? A Cutgal or a Reglass :lol:

 

[georgeathtx]

lol...ok i see were your comming from...well so far so good...so r u gonna throw regal emblems or cutlass ones???

 

[supkylesup]

i think you should put cutlass emblems on the trunk and regal emblems on the front
it would turn a couple more heads
cant wait to see that thing out on the street
good luck man

 

[FE3X CLONE]

I've seen another "hybrid" like yours, ant to fix the difference in the quarter lips, he threw on a set of those GNX Fender flares. You could still see the "Boxyness" of the cutlass lip, but definitely not as noticeable.

What are you gonna call it?? A Cutgal or a Reglass :lol:

That was Hybrid T from www.turbobuick.com. However he went the oposite direction and made a Regal look like a Cutlass. Which is FAR easier to do than the other way around! Bascially all you need is the front sheet metal from a Cutlass and you bolt it onto a Regal then use the GNX flares to make the Cutlass front wheel well openings match the Regals.

 

[Crossbreed]

I've seen another "hybrid" like yours, ant to fix the difference in the quarter lips, he threw on a set of those GNX Fender flares. You could still see the "Boxyness" of the cutlass lip, but definitely not as noticeable.

What are you gonna call it?? A Cutgal or a Reglass :lol:

So... you've made my brain start doing stuff... my wifes gonna hate you, cuz that usually means I'm spending money. I'm wondering, if the GNX flares were done like "cutout" flares on a 4X4 (trimming out the sheetmetal underneath), would any "Boxyness" be visible anymore? I was actually planning on grafting the Cutlass openings onto the Regal fenders... but this is another way to go that I hadn't thought about. Hmmm...
As for the rear-end, I am not cutting any factory welds at the roofline. Don't wanna mess up the structural integrity for cosmetic purposes. But my brain is still working. I will come up with something. And the bend on the Regal trunk is rusted a **** too.

 

[Crossbreed]

lol...ok i see were your comming from...well so far so good...so r u gonna throw regal emblems or cutlass ones???

It's a toss up between Grand Prix emblems and Monte Carlo emblems.

 

[cowboyfromhell]

the quarter glass will never be the same

 

[hunter_alexander]

No offence but that has to be one of the most retarded reasons to do this. And your wasting your time. If you wanted a regal, then what you should have done is taken all the good parts off the regal, stored them, scrapped the junk regal, get some more cash together and saved for a good regal instead of buying the Cutlass and doing a hack job.

In the end you still have a cutlass. But now its not even a decent car. You will grow tired of it as it isnt really a regal. And you will have a harder time selling it to get what you really wanted in the first place cause its a hacked up Cutlass.

So you wasted not only your apparently hard to come by money, but your time and a car.

 

[R/T kota]

Been done before.
This is an 81 cutlass
http://sportscarforums.com/f8/ultimate- ... 27152.html