Cleaned up my brother's '81 today the best I could (it still needs a could clay bar run over it) and drove it over to his house. His roommate bought a house and is moving out so now he has room for the Cutlass at his place.
It's been sitting in my way for two years now. Really is starting to show its age but after doing everything I've done to mine, I told him his will be easy.
Took the T-tops out and set off. Of course we didn't have any insurance on it and the tags have been expired for two years but it just didn't make sense to go borrow a trailer off someone and spend all that time loading it up only to drive 5 miles down the road. So my mom followed me in her '88 CSCB and we set off taking all the lonely back roads.
Man that car is fun. Yeah it really needs a good tune up again, body work, a quicker ratio steering box, etc. but its just a darn fun cruiser. You get so many more looks in it than you do in his Mustang. His Mustang is an absolute brute and would put the Cutlass to shame in the 1/4 as well as in the corners, but I like driving the Cutlass a heck of alot more. It's smooth, rides nice and dang if that Art Carr TH-2004R doesn't shift has hard as it did the first day it was installed! That trans was behind my 455 for years, the converter went bad, fluid was pitch black. I gave it to my brother since I was converting to the 6 speed and told him to try having it flushed and put a new converter on it and see what happens.
Trans shop flushed it out and we put a new 3000 stall converter in and that trans is still going strong. It's held up for going on 10 years now.
After dropping his car off I got to drive my mom's '88 home. Been a long time since I've driven a stock 307 Y engine car. It's definitely no hot rod but for a really nice evening summer cruiser it does just fine.
It was definitely a site to behold. You just don't see to G-body Olds's on the road around here that often anymore. In fact I think I can pretty much count them on one hand. Two of which are my brother's and mom's and the third is another guy in town with an '87 442.
And driving with the T-tops out in his car really had me reconsidering doing the roof swap on mine...
Not sure if I ever posted pics of them but here's the '81 at Norwalk, OH during the Olds Powered Nationals cutting 1.8 60's on 215/75R14 tires:
And my mome's '88 with 51,000 miles on the clock. She has SSIII rims but this picture was taken when I test fitted my 17x8" Hopster wheels on it to see what they would look like before I sold the rims:
It's been sitting in my way for two years now. Really is starting to show its age but after doing everything I've done to mine, I told him his will be easy.
Took the T-tops out and set off. Of course we didn't have any insurance on it and the tags have been expired for two years but it just didn't make sense to go borrow a trailer off someone and spend all that time loading it up only to drive 5 miles down the road. So my mom followed me in her '88 CSCB and we set off taking all the lonely back roads.
Man that car is fun. Yeah it really needs a good tune up again, body work, a quicker ratio steering box, etc. but its just a darn fun cruiser. You get so many more looks in it than you do in his Mustang. His Mustang is an absolute brute and would put the Cutlass to shame in the 1/4 as well as in the corners, but I like driving the Cutlass a heck of alot more. It's smooth, rides nice and dang if that Art Carr TH-2004R doesn't shift has hard as it did the first day it was installed! That trans was behind my 455 for years, the converter went bad, fluid was pitch black. I gave it to my brother since I was converting to the 6 speed and told him to try having it flushed and put a new converter on it and see what happens.
Trans shop flushed it out and we put a new 3000 stall converter in and that trans is still going strong. It's held up for going on 10 years now.
After dropping his car off I got to drive my mom's '88 home. Been a long time since I've driven a stock 307 Y engine car. It's definitely no hot rod but for a really nice evening summer cruiser it does just fine.
It was definitely a site to behold. You just don't see to G-body Olds's on the road around here that often anymore. In fact I think I can pretty much count them on one hand. Two of which are my brother's and mom's and the third is another guy in town with an '87 442.
And driving with the T-tops out in his car really had me reconsidering doing the roof swap on mine...
Not sure if I ever posted pics of them but here's the '81 at Norwalk, OH during the Olds Powered Nationals cutting 1.8 60's on 215/75R14 tires:
And my mome's '88 with 51,000 miles on the clock. She has SSIII rims but this picture was taken when I test fitted my 17x8" Hopster wheels on it to see what they would look like before I sold the rims:
