1958 Limited Four Door Riviera

Thanks for the photos of the Belgian Limited!

Looking again at the photo of the white Limited, that car seems like a much better candidate to restore, than my car:laugh: Although it looks like someone might have harvested the rockers on that one.

In other news:

Trunk pan's done!!! Finally.

As you can see, I've been using the spare tire well as a trash can. It ACTUALLY isn't rusted through like the rest of the car. I thought that was odd.




As soon as I was done with the trunk, my plan was to "slide" the car over to the right side of the garage so I could work on the passenger side floors and rocker. About a month ago, I bought 2 pairs of AC Delco wheel dollies (2000 lb cap.). I pulled them out of hte box today and put them together, noting that one of the pairs had different wheels than the other. Nothing too drastic, just a cosmetic thing....so it seemed.

So I get the car on all 4 dollies and make an attempt to push the car to one side. I layed into the front side and BOOM!!! I look down, and see a couple wheels sitting next to my foot. One of the dollies had broken all 4 wheels off at once. At this point, I was pissed because I figured all 4 of them were like this. I continued to struggle with 3 dollies, and realized that one of the back ones was losing 2 of the wheels, and the other two were hanging by a thread.

Long story short, someone (in China) had packaged the wrong wheels with one of the sets of dollies. So I had one good set and one trashed set.




I took the dead pair back to O'Reilly's to get a new set. The (really cute) girl working the counter gave me a funny look when I set down a bag of wheels and two big blue plates on the counter and asked for another set. I got them switched out, but we checked the wheels in the new box and they were the right ones this time.

I managed to get the car over to the other side of the garage with just two dollies on the back wheels and a floor jack on the front. What a pain!!!

I had some cleanup to do this afternoon when I moved the car.




But the car is tucked in its new home for another few months. As soon as I get the rocker and floor done, I can lift it off the frame...woo hoo!!!!

 

I would say that car is worth the price for parting out...but I would need a Super, Roadmaster, or Limited parts car for sheet metal and most of the goodies.

 

This door panel isn't totally finished, but this is really cool. All fabrics are original material...and very expensive!:ball:

Before:




After:

 

I've wanted a 58 for a long time...and from the looks of things, I will have enough sweat equity in this thing to WANT to keep it:laugh: I just have to be careful and watch how I spend the $$ to get it done, especially if I ever want to break even on the sale (if that ever happens). The problem with this one is that it's a 4 door, and price guides put it in the $40k range for a trailer queen. I am hoping to spend no more than $25k to get it done. That's not including my labor. At $25/hr, I'm probably close to $3k into it just for labor. And that's CHEAP labor!

I probably wouldn't have bought it knowing I had to dump $5k into my Centurion this year to get it running again...but I'll manage.

 

I know I already posted a photo of this....but I find myself going to the basement just to look at these :Brow:
They really turned out awesome. Thanks to my friend who also happens to be in the upholstery business!

 

I believe I know the Limited you're talking about, assuming it was a 4 door.

This car was on ebay a few months ago for $40k. (I only saved the detail shots so I could get my car together properly)...