69 Cutlass S
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From: El Paso, TX
69 Cutlass S
Thought after a year of membership, I should post what I have been working on over the last 15 months. It is still a work in progress, but is very driveable and I took it to Detroit for the Dream Cruise this year.
This 69 started life as a "S" with a 350, bench seat, automatic, black interior and black vinyl top and silver paint. At some point many years ago, an attempt was made to to make it a 442 clone using an old muncie from a 65 chevy, some 442 components in the rear. I bought the car near KC in July of 2011. Interior was shot, floor pans rusted out, rear window frame a distant memory, plus the normal rust areas. Gauges were inop.
I have attached a few snaps of what we (my wife and I) started with.
This 69 started life as a "S" with a 350, bench seat, automatic, black interior and black vinyl top and silver paint. At some point many years ago, an attempt was made to to make it a 442 clone using an old muncie from a 65 chevy, some 442 components in the rear. I bought the car near KC in July of 2011. Interior was shot, floor pans rusted out, rear window frame a distant memory, plus the normal rust areas. Gauges were inop.
I have attached a few snaps of what we (my wife and I) started with.
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Joined: Sep 2010
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From: El Paso, TX
69 Cutlass S
After a lot of metal work, a new interior, numbers correct muncie M20 and a whole bunch of other work, car now sits just about identically to the 69 Cutlass S post coupe I had new in Dec 1968 as a senior in high school.
Parts are from 7 different cars. Still have some work to do on the AC and brakes. Can provide more info if anyone is interested. Also have a few parts left over like carb and transmission.
This group has been a great help in this project and I thank you.
Steve P, El Paso
Parts are from 7 different cars. Still have some work to do on the AC and brakes. Can provide more info if anyone is interested. Also have a few parts left over like carb and transmission.
This group has been a great help in this project and I thank you.
Steve P, El Paso
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Very nice looking car. when you say 'numbers correct', I think you are alluding to the car now having a 'period correct transmission'? Numbers correct would mean the transmission was born with the car and its serial number matches the cars VIN, engine stamping and frame stamps.
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69 Cutlass S
You are correct and I should be more accurate. Transmission case is correct model casting (numbers) but guts are all new. I rebuilt a period correct rally pack gauge set. We re-used as many parts on the car as we could. Only modern consession was the radio, and new guts for that are in the original Oldsmobile AM radio chasis.
