Guy on one of the FB pages I follow joined to sell this car. Nice guy, younger but not a gear head. He bought it from the little old lady that ordered it new. Showed 51K on the title at time of transfer and just under 52 now. Its spent probably everyday of its life sitting outside and looks it. Seller offered it to me at under 1/2 of his asking price so I drove over 2300 miles in 35 hours. to pick it up. Shes for the most part rust free and all of the int plastics are in good shape with no dry rot or cracking. Not really sure what I'll do with it. This is what it looked like new
I could do that but if the 350 rocket thats in it runs well and it seems to why not leave it as is. I gotta flip it. Have my eye on a Skyhawk race car.
I was going to say 'please tell me 'SC" doesn't mean 'sport coupe', then I scrolled & saw the badge. Still, as a 350 should be fine for a cruiser. I always think these are V6s for some reason.
But it has the ultimate donk potential. It is precisely the style that started the donk isnt it? The super donk coupe. If your lookin for something you havent done yet.
Funny Donks got brought up. Building a 71 Impala for a customer. L86 6.2 with an LT4 blower and an 8 speed auto.
I don't care for the big wheels, but aside from that theres a lot of craftmanship and talent put into those cars, and the bodies look clean and straight, remove the big wheels and put some stockers on for me The LeSabre Sport Coupe is sweet, always liked those cars, I wanted to buy one when I was 15, Spitzer Chevy had a silver with red velour interior interior and the black out trim and Quadrajet Turbo 6 and Buick mags, it was cool looking. IIRC they wanted around 3500/4000 for it, I was sad
The sheet metal does look solid, hows the underside? It is a Turbo 6 yes? If it is, I'd keep the 6 in there and make it run as good as it can, but Im weird
I'm happy to see guys into cars - Whatever they are and the Donks aren't bad looking - Even w/the big wheels.
Other than surface rust its as clean and solid as can be. No V6. 350 Rocket. Got it fired off yesterday evening. no exhaust past the cat so it was loud. gas was spraying out the side of the fuel pump so it emptied out the coke bottle I had it running off of pretty fast. There has gotta be at least 1/2 inch of crud caked on every surface of that engine. thicker at the front. Sending unit for the OP is top of the timing cover and looks newer. I know these Olds engines had a history of that sender cracking and breaking, leaking oil all over the front of the engine. Soaked it down with red diesel fuel to sit over night, I'll pressure wash it today then change the pump.
Cool car. It's probably a windowed block 350 which isn't real desirable for a performance build but should run just fine stock. Any olds engine would be a direct swap.. I'd be on the look for a 425 or 455
Cool car Briz! When first seen I thought it might be one of the Turbo jobs. I look forward to seeing your progress on this one. Ted
