Been a lurker here for awhile, never posted before. Great site, lots of good info and knowledgeable people.

I have a '71 Cutlass S, it is not my first and one of the dozen 68-72 A bodies I have had over the years. I had an '02 Z28 as my last toy, had few kids and had to part with it, did nothing for awhile and now I'm back to the old tin.

It currently has a 350 that runs pretty good, I have installed an Edelbrock intake and carb on it, and it luckily came with an HEI. Turbo 350 trans has been rebuilt, and the front brakes I converted to power discs. Working on getting it legal right now and fixing my Flintstones footwell floor pans. I added the '80s super stockers, it had hideous baby moons on it when I pulled from the river bank where it had sunk to its rockers on flat tires.

Go ahead and cringe but this car will be cloned to a 442, gotta have the bullnose grill, looks badder than a GTO.

Dont let the pic fool ya the paint is shot, I took the pic just after a wash, it was wet.

 

I also run salvage cars as a side business, here is a '69 442 I picked up in Baton Rouge, a nice car that burned to the ground at the beginning of this month, bought it for $100, it has its #396026 400 big block with C casting heads, and its 12 bolt with boxed lower arms, hell of a buy, people actually snickered as I loaded it on my wrecker, I found it comical.

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A converted lurker is that like coming out of the closet?

 

Welcome from another Texan. Having owned that many A bodies, I am sure there are a few things you can teach many of us.

 

Welcome from the Hill Country! And what's wrong with a clone?

 

Welcome. Sounds to me
like a steal on the 69.
Check that rear, could be a 3.23 posi.
The 71 looks pretty good all wet too.

 

Welcome aboard.....fellow Texan.

This is a great forum board, enjoy the ride.

Great looking S too...cool

 

That '71 looks really nice. You are right, the water reflects the light and makes the paint look very shiny. I have seen some before and after pics of cars with oxidized paint that have been cleaned and polished out, way beyond my skill, and they looked like they were wet the finish was so nice afterwards. Maybe that could work for your car....

 

Welcome aboard. It is your car - do with it whatever you want. Just be honest.
Mine is a real 442, with W-30 stripes and emblems. Not a real W-30.

 

Thanks all.

This car will be painted, but I have no shame driving as is.

These days, with the Internet there should be no reason someone should lay down the big cash for a clone car, I'm sure it happens though. The last time I knew of that happening was in the 90s, when we had no Internet and relied on books to verify.

But yes I think to each their own.

The burnt 442 was parted, the rear was non-posi, the housing looks rebuild able but everything inside was cooked. The 400 block and crank were junk, block had visible crack from the main saddle up to the cam bearing on the main webbing. Waiting to hear back from machine shop on heads.