What did you do to your non-G body project today? [2020]

[81cutlass]

Anyone in western OK want to do some car scouting for me 🙂

It might begin to fill the hole in my heart that selling the wagon left....

 

[Turbo Zach]

Anyone in western OK want to do some car scouting for me 🙂

It might begin to fill the hole in my heart that selling the wagon left....

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It is ugly and odd, I like it. Buy it and make it fast!

 

[81cutlass]

It is ugly and odd, I like it. Buy it and make it fast!

🙂 That's the plan

The dash and glovebox door look a bit rusty in the photos so I'm a bit concerned it was stored in a wet location or the roof is rotted out with the vinyl top and it's leaking around the front windshield. It's a 12 hour drive there so if I drive there I'd be buying it and I'd rather not get a rusted pile.

I can't be that picky though since they only made Omega's in 73-74 and most got crushed or are rusted out on top of relatively low production volumes .

 

[81Regal]

Welded in some new patch panels and started doing the bodywork on my 93 Sonoma.

 

[81cutlass]

Well that was short lived. Owner sent some additional photos of the Omega and it's a OK 50fter and a rough up closer. I know it's a 50 year old car and I am going to expect some rust repair but it's a bit, extreme.....

It's not a roof rotter car, it looks like just two tone so that is good. However, It looks like it was parked 75% inside and the far right side was exposed to a wet environment.

Kinda a bummer, the drivers side of the car looks clean but it's really a Jekyll and Hyde car. Trunk, quarters, and floor look nice. Passenger door bottom, trunk, windshield surface next to the roof, and I assume passenger rocker is pretty crusty.

Hunt continues..

 

[Turbo Zach]

I brought another one of them home.

This car is my inheritance from my belated father. It has been sitting at my mother's for about ten years. All I have done to it in that time was start it from time to time and moved it from one garage to another. I put a lot of my own money and time in this car and got burnt out on it. Then life got in the way I guess. It is time to give it some love. The main problem is, it is set up to be a eighth mile drag street car. Radical big block roller engine, 456 gears, a spool, caged, and no back seat. The plan is to regear it, put the exhaust on it, and make it more street drivable.

 

[Supercharged111]

Control arm bushings in the dually. I expected them to suck more than I expected, but they exceeded those expectations. Mf'in BJ press couldn't get it done so I had to finish on base with the biggest damn press I have ever laid hands on. Puts my neighbor's 50 ton to shame. Wish I'd have taken a pic. Here's the reason it took 2 days and not just an afternoon.

And because they shoved the bushings in from the outside and the bolts from the inside, I had to crack the damn diff loose to finagle the bolts around the axle flanges. That's not how they went back in.

I tried to validate my fix empty. With a camper in the bed, the wheel rotates clockwise on the brakes and the new front tires are feathered good after about 1000 miles. Well when I laid into the brakes good and hard the back tried passing the front and 4 black stripes appeared on the road. That validates my objective of shifting brake bias to the rear. Gonna have to load the camper to see if I actually fixed anything.

 

[Wageslave]

Jeep got a few coats of rubberized undercoating on the bottom of the tub. I will probably revisit it for another coat later but it is a lot better than when I started. The only downside is I got so much of that crap up my nose that my boogers would probably bounce like a superball if I flicked 'em.

 

[mclellan83]

It is a Toyota Minivan. The hotrod car gods are trying to tell you something.

Yeah well they try to tell me not to own anything since everything with wheels gives me problems, almost as much as those self auto oil changing humans

 

[motorheadmike]

Saw nature sh*t all over it.

Surprise!