gearheads78

Well I am pretty much broke after buildng my building and I need get a saving account again. I have come together with a guy that has money and trusts my judgement 100% so I can spend his money and I do all the work on anying I buy.

I picked this up today. Its a 66 Caprice that has been in storage 17 years. Its one of the hardest loaded Chevys I have ever seen. Matching number 396, buckets,12 bolt, power windows, power seat, tilt, console, some kind of 4 **** speaker adjustment on the console that I have never ever seen before and more. Someone must have ordered it and just hit every check mark you could on the order sheet.

I'm going to clean it up and document the car. If the motor will turn over my fingers are crossed I might be able to make it run.
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Lady72nRob71

Cool find - what are the plans for it? Resto mod? Gotta get that shop broke in and dirtied up!

OLD SKL 69

Great starting point! Hopefully this will help you build up some funds for the next project Olds you pick up.

gearheads78

Right now just trying to have enough for the twins project due to arrive any day now



I got it inside tonight. I think I am going to need more space.

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Jamesbo

Need more space???

Darn, I was gonna send cha a 69 442 that I haven't finished.

Lady72nRob71

And just what is the blue car in the background?

I might have a 70 Vista, too. Yes, time to start planning the shop expansion.

66400

The four ***** on the console control the factory AM-FM Stereo Multiplex system.

Henry

1969w3155

I've always liked the '66 Caprice, as soon as I saw what you had, I looked for the larger crossed flags on the fender, indicating a big block before reading the text.

citcapp

Richard,

If you built it twice as big you would still fill it up. Its the nature of things. You'll be plenty busy with the twins let alone fixing up the cars. Good luck

Aron Nance

Richard: Even though it's not an Olds, can't wait to see what you do to it. I'm sure the new financial backer you have hooked up with has seen and appreciates the outstanding quality of your work. Congratulations!
Aron

Rickman48

Good Luck with it!! I've done a couple '66,'67 + '68 Chev big cars, myself, also owned a few, back in the day.
Here's hoping it doesn't have Comfratron Air - no parts available!!

gearheads78

No plans other than get it ready to sell and market it nationally.

I want to do a 54 Olds 88 hardtop baaaaad

I still have space in the yard. Send it over

need more land The blue car is a 69 Cougar I picked up about 6 months ago.

Thanks Henry, I had been told about them but never soon one.

I would have passed on it if it was not a 396. The fact that the VIN is stamped on the block makes it that much better. I just it was not parked because it spun a main or something nasty. It does have oil and anifreeze so that a good sign.
Yea but it would at least take a few more days to fill it

hes not looking to do any long terms deals just quick turn around type stuff. I hope to move it quick once ready

Its not on my top ten most wanted but it would sure be a fun car to keep. If only the lottery thing will pan out.

stevengerard

most importantly - good to see things are going well with the twins, good luck!!

gearheads78

I try not to think about it but things were perfect with the last one too even the day before she died. I just want them out and hear the crys.

Redog

My parents had a 66 Impala 4 door when I was a kid. I think it had a 283, but IDK. It was light blue on light blue.

If I had the money, that would be one of my projects, except I'd drop a 454 or 502 crate motor in

Mike77

I think you should stop showing pictures of your shop, It makes me cry!

Mike

kjr442

x2

gearheads78

Probably the nastiest car I have ever cleaned out. I think 1/2 rats in Oklahoma used it as a urinal. I vacuumed up at least 20 lbs of rat turds. The trunk floor is gone because of all the rat ****

Small sample there was 10x as much in the trunk

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Lady72nRob71

Holy rat crap, Batman! That woulda been the end of the line for me.

citcapp

Nasty stuff, Hope your wearing gloves and using a good breathing filter system while your doing the clean out. Yuck

gearheads78

YUP! I was not breathing or touching that crap.

stevengerard

Holy Cr@pp I looked again, didn't realize it was the seat bottom, I thought it was a small part of some kind and a close up of it - wow, yuk.

gearheads78

Well no turning back now. I popped the new shops cherry today. I got a little oil , antifreeze and trans fluid on the floor. It felt good to have wrench in my hand after 6 months. One hage difference I noticed in the new shop was the light. I never had a drop light out once. The white walls really project the light under the car.

What I have feared was true. I could not rotate the motor so I pulled the plugs. 2 were rusty and crusty. I had to pull the motor and trans out together since it was locked up once out I was able to slide the trans off the converter. The top bolt for the converter was in the worst place it could be and was a real pain to get loose but I finally got it.

Once I got the heads off I could see why the two plugs wear crusty. Some water was sitting in those holes. I've got it soaking to pb blaster to see if I can break it loose. The good news is it's still std bore.

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firefrost gold

So does this need to get moved to the major project and build forum ?

gearheads78

LOL...No its needs to be in the non Olds classifieds but it looks like I am a few days away from that point at the moment.

gearheads78

Since I am going to be tinkering with this one for a short while I am moving this to the non olds section and will keep it updated there.

oldcutlass

You could put an olds motor in it and be a hero!!! Glad to hear all is well with the twins!!!!!!!!!

gearheads78

Monday is the day if they are not here on thier own before.

gearheads78

I managed to sneek outside between diaper changes for a while this afternoon. Project creep is setting in. The motor is a mess. Water or mouse **** was sitting in the motor for a long time. My hope for a simple re-ring of the bottom end is going to be a complete rebuild of the top and bottom. Even after soaking a week one of the pistons was so stuck I broke it getting it out. At least 4 of the intake valves have to be replaced. One had only about 75% of the stem left One of the valve covers was rusted through from the outside from mouse ****. I have never seen so much rodent damage in one car.

Well I should drop it off at the machine shop this week. Now I get to see what trouble I can get myself in with the chassis sitting there waiting on the motor.

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nonhog

Just found this thread, cool car! rats mice ick! I had a 64 2dr Chevelle wagon that had 3 nest of ants in the carpet. Not a pleasant surprise
Love the big cars!

Any news?

gearheads78

Well things have been very very slow. The twins and a 5 yo really slow things down. On top of that my AADD (Automotive ADD ) is going strong.
I dropped the 396 off at the machine shop and started pricing stuff out to rebuild it. Even a basic rebuild was adding up pretty quick so I started looking around for a running motor I could drop in. That led to this following my home week later for $1000.00 I was a rough but running and driving truck with factory 454.
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That led me to the 67-72 truck site to help sell off the parts to try to pay for the motor. Well I have now sold about $1200.00 in parts and still have the 454 so other than the time it worked out well.

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In the mean time all the time I spent on the truck board re-kindled an old flame deep down. I have alway loved Squarebody trucks but have not owned one in years. I ran across this and it ended up on my trailer in Oklahoma one weekend.

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Its been hit on the driver front but its has rear nice interior. Its going to get a simple altitude adjustment down to few inches from the earth and some big in little ralley wheels that also ended up in the bed of my truck last weekend.

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Of coarse I needed the RH front fender and some other parts. Since I did so well parting out the last one this is now sitting behind the shop.

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As you can see I have a few irons in the fire now.

kjr442

Richard you are as bad as me! I want to thank you for helping me to diagnose my problem LOL.

oldcutlass

So if I look up the term of "one thing leads to another" your pic will show up there!!!! LOL

Lady72nRob71

"My new shop is too small" in one.... two.... three....

citcapp

Nice to know I am not the only one suffering from AADD. I think we need to start a support group. First we need a hanger size building with about 100 acres of land in a state the doesn't mind a few hundred cars stored in and around the building.......................................Ric hard can run the meeting and we can all confess to our problems then let the fun begin

gearheads78

Where do I sign up

Pretty much

I think its a common condition among our kind.

That already happened the day they poured the concrete but I am land locked to go any bigger