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26 Dec

Top and trunk

I was fortunate enough to have my parents in town for the holidays, and my Dad helped me get the convertible top and trunk lid off. Would definitely have been
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21 Dec

Steering box and windshield out

I haven’t had much time to work on the car this week, but I did manage to get the steering box and windshield out tonight. The bottom bolts on the
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15 Dec

Trying my hand at some cleanup

I was getting tired of tearing the interior down, so I decided to do a little attempt at restoring a panel today. As with most of the parts of the
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09 Dec

More interior work

Interior work is much harder than exterior work, that’s for sure. Getting the dash pad off the dash was a nightmare due to the terribly placed nuts holding it to
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06 Dec

Interior work and engine sold!

It’s been a few days since my last update, so I thought I’d make a brief post. I got the Olds 400 sold to a local gentleman named Austin who
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02 Dec

Engine and transmission pulled!

I had a lot of interest in the 400 that was in the car, and some interest in the TH3530 as well, so I decided to pull the engine and
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30 Nov

Front end disassembled

Over the past few days I’ve managed to remove the hood, bumper, front supports/radiator, fenders, fender liners and other various parts. That gets me down to the real body and
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18 Nov

A little more info and some smelly exhaust…

Today I dug into the car a little more! I learned yesterday that the engine was a modified 400ci block out of a 442 car. I look into it more,
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17 Nov

Car arrived today!

The car arrived today! As expected, she is in bad shape, but there were some surprises that were immediately apparent. I had no idea what the engine was, but it
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30 Oct

Repair docs

While doing some searching for the cars title, I found an interesting repair receipt. It looks like he purchased the car around October 2012, and had to tow it to
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