Here are some Pics of the Rebuild I am doing on the 53 Buick Special with 455 I picked up a year ago, So far there has not been much that has not been replaced, Never thought I would have to do as much work on it as I have and its still not road worthy yet. But getting close:TU: This is going to be my summer daily driver, Now how many VW green 53 Buicks have you Seen ?o No: All New Glass Complete Suspension rebuild with all urethane Bushings & Sway bar Dropped Spindles,11" Rotors Another Rear End, 10 Bolt 3.08 Posi New Floor Pans Completely Rewired New Radiator Motor Completely Detailed,Could not even see it there was so much Grease, Loose wires Por 15 most everything Remove & clean tank move filler and Seal with Pors Made newShock mounts & mounting plates for Springs All New Solenoids for doors & trunk, Install Magnum Shooters in doors Rebuild a 800 cfm Quadrajet I picked up All new brake & fuel lines New DriveShaft Caddy Hubcaps I modified with Bullets, Going to have Wide Whites And there is still more to go & here I thought I bought a Driver to start with instead I got :moonu: Perk
Beautiful!!! really nice work, aint that how it goes, I start out thinking primer black and just drive it, next thing you know you have $$$$$$$$ involved and where do you stop? Was it difficult to get 455 in there? what tranny? I am doing a 54, I do have a running 455 on a stand and I had fleeting thought about getting it put in there. I will most likely stick with the 322.
Car has a Nova subframe and the 455 harmonic balancer sits about even with front cross member and trans ended up just about perfect in the frame x member, I did not install motor but have been cleaning up and rewelding some of the lousy welds someone had done before I got car,Im not going crazy on car but want it to be Safe & dependable, I wanted to CRY when they delivered car everything was so badly done it was a joke, Car would not run, no Brakes, Had air ride that was junk, When we did finally get it started to get it into garage it started in gear and took off and ran into back of car hauler, I knew then I was in for some real fun ! But with a little TLC its starting to come together pretty good. Perk
