my 72' Olds Restoration

[cutlassjoe]

Hi All. Fairly new to the site, and trying to figure out how everything works. I am restoring a 72' Olds Cutlass 442. (it is a clone) It has been a work in progress over the past nine months. The shop is doing a great job, and they let me come in to help with the grunt work to save some money. They have also learned a lot over the past little while. The first thing I learned was patience! It takes a long time to do this, and you cannot rush it. I have posted some pics, and will post more later. Great site, everyone I have dealt with has been the best.

[svnt442]

[oldzzy]

Looks good! What colour are you going to be painting it? Your not to far from me.

[Bluevista]

Originally Posted by oldzzy

Looks good! What colour are you going to be painting it? Your not to far from me.

I chequed her out and looks like the original colour of the body and interior was green eh?

That's a nice floor repair job, looks good underneath.
The rest of the car looks like you did some work on it too.

The hardest part is finished, it's all downhill now, should be done in no time.

[citcapp]

The putting together of the giant jigsaw puzzle starts real soon. Good luck

[cutlassjoe]

Thanks for the replies, and the good words. The car will be repainted dark green, I think it is called moss green? It is an original color for 1971. It will also have white stripes, and a new ram air oai hood. This restoration was done bass ackwards. I did the body and paint in 2006, not realizing how bad the frame really was. I had it in for headers last summer, and the shop pointed out to me where the frame was rotten right through. There was not much holding the body on the frame. After we took the body off, we found all the usual surprises. Floors, toe pan, firewall, rear quarters, inner fenders. The roof was in great shape though....This site is great nothing but Oldsmobiles, and lots of great people too! I am located in Winsdor Ontario. Let me know if you are close.

Joe

[svnt442]

I'm guessing antique jade. Check your cowl tag for the color combo. It will be on the right side in the second line with either 2 sets of numbers or a set of numbers and a letter if the car originally had a vinyl top.

[70vista]

Very nice looking job you got going there. It's going to be a beauty.

[cutlassjoe]

I have some new pics of the bottom of the car. We did a final sand, two coats of primer, two coats of paint, two coats of clear. The body work and paint is being done by my good friend Dennis Cunningham. The body will go on the frame this weekend! Finally instead of taking things off we are putting them back on. I hope to have the paint work done by the end of November so we can put it back together over the winter. Thanks very much for looking
Joe

[4-ever-olds]

Hey Joe, the project looks great and it looks like they're doing an awesome job! I just joined this site recently as well as a means of trying to sell some stuff but the more I read the posts and see the pictures of all these awesome cars, the less I want to sell and the more I want to work on the "project that never happened". I'm not too far from you either, just across the creek in a suburb of Detroit. If I happen to win the lotto anytime soon, do you think your buddy Dennis would want to take on another project?

[cutlassjoe]

Originally Posted by 4-ever-olds

Hey Joe, the project looks great and it looks like they're doing an awesome job! I just joined this site recently as well as a means of trying to sell some stuff but the more I read the posts and see the pictures of all these awesome cars, the less I want to sell and the more I want to work on the "project that never happened". I'm not too far from you either, just across the creek in a suburb of Detroit. If I happen to win the lotto anytime soon, do you think your buddy Dennis would want to take on another project?

Thanks for looking, and the comments. You will like this site a lot. The metal work, and restoration work is being done at JH Restorations, my friend dennis is doing the finish work, and paint on the body. Both JH Restorations, and Dennis are very good with their rates. Dennis did the body work back in 2006 (before we knew how bad the frame etc, was) Let me know where in Metro Detroit you are. I work in Detroit, and am all over Southeast Mich. Grew up in Farmington Hills.

[bulldog]

Thats really looking good.

[4-ever-olds]

Originally Posted by cutlassjoe

Thanks for looking, and the comments. You will like this site a lot. The metal work, and restoration work is being done at JH Restorations, my friend dennis is doing the finish work, and paint on the body. Both JH Restorations, and Dennis are very good with their rates. Dennis did the body work back in 2006 (before we knew how bad the frame etc, was) Let me know where in Metro Detroit you are. I work in Detroit, and am all over Southeast Mich. Grew up in Farmington Hills.

I'm kind of the opposite story...I grew up in Sarnia, Ontario and am now working in West Bloomfield, which I'm sure you know where that is since you lived in Farmington Hills. I am living in the Royal Oak/Clawson area and in the almost 14 years that I've been in Michigan, I haven't done much research on where to go for restoration/body work as my project has been on hold for quite some time. It looked like they were doing a fantastic job on your car so I figured that it might be worthwhile dragging mine across the border to have it done! I'll just have to figure out how to go about getting a passport for the vehicle! I would be interested in finding out what kind of prices I would be looking at though if I was going to bite the bullet and get this car done!