offtopic forsure, but this picture deserves to be in flickr.
i like it.

oh and keep up the good work

 

thanks! i have to take some more pics of some of the little stuff i've done recently and post them..

 

Wow nice work man

 

thanks! its coming along slowly but its a whole different car compared to when i brought it home. a relay issue is giving me a run for my money now..always something, lol.

 

Any new updates?

 

there are a few. i need to go out today and get some pics and post them up!

 

any updates?

 

yea but i havent posted the pics. i've been working my tail off at the p.d. i'll get some up tomorrow afternoon when i wake up or some time tonight on my lunch break.

 

Winter accidents? That seems to keep the PD busy here all winter.

 

oh yeah. we had a ladydrive her car striaght into a ditch..on a dry road.. just truned into a ditch.. and last night we hada two car spinout that ended up wiping out some guard railing.. people want to drive too fast when he have 5" on snow to contend with!

 

i've got some time today before work to get more donte on the car and get the pics up. i've gotten quite a few things done in the last few days working for a little bit before work. i'll get some pics up this evening before 7pm.

 

ok as promised, here are the updated pics.

i started testing the waters of restoration by cleaning off a small area and undercoating it. i had to chunk off the dirt from where the car had sunk in the mud. after i cleaned it:



and then undercoated it:



i finished most of the interior up the other day. i am using some grey parts due to not having the proper maroon parts to install:



whats left of the lower valance i was able to get bolted up today on the right side:



now that the cradle is installed permanantly, the front end sits much better:

 

you're getting there.

 

Looking good!

 

thanks guys! yeah its getting there slowly. i hope to get out and turn some wrenches on the car tomorrow.

 

got a few little things done lately.. one thing that has been vexing me is that the main relays do not click on or off with ignition power.. i also have a couple dash lights that stay on (very very dim) once the key if turned to the off position... and the stinking right blinker illuminates on the cluster when the lights are turned either to the parking light or on position and it causes the right signal not to function. functions normally with the lights off.. go figure i have gremlins that are unpredicatable...

 

If you are interested, I have a bunch of '84 GSL-SE parts in my basement. They are left over from a part-out that didn't seem to materialize. I don't have many body parts, but I have some stuff you might want. PM me.

 

you have my attention. pm sent..

 

Looking good Dave, nasty bit of rust of there on the roof though. Good luck with that. Dunno what to tell ya as far as the electrical gremlins, I can't stand messing with electircals. Makes me glad the 78 has such a simple harnes, lol.

 

i have a replacement roof panel for the rusty sections. i'll post a pic of it today. the electrical gremlins i will need to sort out shortly. still trying to get three apex seals freed up on the engine i want to put in the car.

 

I have done something similar to what you have done. The things my 82 had that yours didn't was an SE read end and a 74 13b 4port (blown) oh and the most massive pack rat nest I have ever seen. Looks good, man.

 

thanks man. i havent had much time to work on the car due to trying to get parts and some of my extra cars sold to pay down some debt that my wife had accumulated and due to work and family. i'm hoping to get some stuff done tomorrow..

 

Sure, blame the wife for all that debt says he who has 5 cars. lol

 

well, i have 10 cars, lol... but my wife has run up over 10k in credit card debt and wants me to sell my cars to pay her debt off. not gonna happen. money is tight right now and until we can dig ourselves out of the hole we are in, not many restorations will take place.

 

well, i'll be goign back at this one full steam.. its been in a garage for awhile and now that i've sold some cars off and bought a new house, i can continue on bringing this beast back to life.. i need to find a power steering pump and pulley and brackets for the car as it has power steering and i think i'll keep it.

next decision is what i want to do about an engine. if i can free up some stuck apex seals on a spre GSL-SE engine i have in my garage i will use that. if not, it may be another SE short block i'm after. gonna install a new rear end in the car as soon as i get it to the house. the one in there is pretty toasty, lol. new pics to come when the car is brought home.