'52 Rot-box turned tire roaster.

[Oxer]

No burnouts in the donor car!? I am disappoint.

[HooWybrow]

Thanks, fellas. Getting pretty excited about finally taking the build on this by the horns.

Picked up the Cutlass Friday night, I must say, it is in amazing shape for the $600 I paid for it. Took the car for a drive tonight just to shake down the drivetrain and suspension. I honestly can't believe how well the car ran and drove. I felt bad about cutting it up until we started poking around. All the removable sheetmetal is literally flawless, however, I found a fist-sized hole in the drivers floor pan and a couple small holes in the rear wheel arches. If I was a G-body guy, this would definitely have been a real good project car for money invested.

Anyways, here's what it looked like at about 7pm tonight, before we took it for a drive:





And, just a few hours later:



Tomorrow after work, I'll pull the rear-end out of it and the car will be ready to go outside and sat around to be parted-out.

Hopefully next weekend we can get a relative start on the front clip, I'll also have my rear rails from being lasered. Having a bare frame to start with it'll be difficult to lay out my front clip, but I look forward to the challenge.

[C.Johnston]

[M.Doban]

"a few birds stoned at once"

I died.

[244Brick]

You da man jeff!

[CBURKE]

I'm so in for this one! Love old trucks!!!

[Belvader]

Fuck yes fuck yes fuck yes fuck yes!

[loekaaz]

Goddamn... Another subscription added....

[fromthelbc]

i havent seen any roasted tires... when can i expect some toasty tires?

[FunfGang]

B)

[HooWybrow]

Thanks a bunch, guys. It's great knowing I have expectations to live up to.

Well, I've managed to get some work done on the truck tonight.

The frame is now completely stripped, and ready to be modified.



I started picking at the cab tonight. I braced the door gaps before I pulled the cab off the frame originally. I removed sixty-something spot-welds tonight that attached the firewall to the cab and what was left of the floor. From here I will be able to get some more bracing in the cab and cut the floor out. Once the floor is out I'll have the cab blasted and from there I'll begin a very tantalizing amount of sheetmetal work.







I've been on the hunt for a G-body front clip for a few days, and accidentally stumbled on an '84 Cutlass for sale locally. In true G-body fashion the rear frame rails are rotted out, however the rest of the car appears to be in great shape. I'll be hopefully picking it up Friday on the cheap. It has 123xxx original km on it, the guy is also the original owner. I'll be using the engine and trans for the truck also, so I'm getting a few birds stoned at once.



I should have frame rails this weekend, those and the Cutlass, I'll have tonnes of work to keep me busy for a while without spending any real money.

[Bronzit]

In for some badassery.
"hold my beer."

[shane4585]

fawk! i am so excited to watch this build.

[ryanjblajda]

cant wait for more updates.

[JPE16]

Well isn't this just thuper.