1989 Cutlass Calais thread

I picked up a car the other day to help a guy out. I was a bit surprised to see the engine under the hood. While the car isn't much to look at, it's got the Quad 4, 16 valve engine under the hood. It's a 35 year old car with 77K on the clock. The paint is terrible. It's from when the "new" paint process requiring less preparation came into use. A couple years later they realized that it really DID need all the preparation. A lot of the original paint fell off and someone did a really poor job painting it.



Right now I'm just cleaning junk from the years out of it. Fixing a few burned out bulbs and finding what all I have. The fresh fuel already has it running better. It needs a windshield and exhaust. Add in some new tires and possibly some brake work and I should have a nice driving little car.

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Lastly, the power plant.

I hope it's worthy. I'd like you to be able to ave it.

The windshield looks like someone came off the top rope on it.

joe

homesick said:

I hope it's worthy. I'd like you to be able to ave it.

The windshield looks like someone came off the top rope on it.

joe

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This is an old "Granny" car in pretty good shape. I'm thinking it sat in a barn for years. I'm so used to rust buggies, I've only found one small spot about the size of a quarter. Typical crappy paint that was rattle canned. I'm thinking after a windshield, exhaust and some new tires, I'll have a good driving old car. Most of the work is requiring more elbow grease than new parts.