That's essentially what I meant, Bob. It was just my feeble attempt to sound smarter then I really am.
We have a place in SW Florida. I have seen my share of serious rusters there. It's something about the salty air. Perhaps in the center of the state cars keep well, but East of 95 or West of 75 not so much.
UPDATE- Finally got a chance to put a ratchet on the crank this morning. It moved! I dumped the oil, changed the filter and pulled the distributor. I primed the pump and put a new set of points and condenser in it and sunk it back in. Next I put a set of plugs and wires on it and changed the cap. I pinched off the supply line to the fuel pump and ran a rubber hose to my can of fresh fuel. Love the smell of varnish running down my forearm! Filled up the bowl with fresh fuel and "borrowed" the battery out of Jen's Mustang. The engine started up on literally one crank like it had been running yesterday. Not a noise, knock, lifter tap or anything on start up. Just sat there and idled happy as can be. I put a vacuum gauge on it and adjusted the little 2 GC to 20" of vacuum then I gave the timing a final adjustment. The engine runs pretty damn good for an engine that hasn't run in 22 years. Im impressed.
Why are you talking about parting this out???? I don't see anything that won't buff out. Little sea foam in the tank and you're headed to the car show! :3gears: :laugh::laugh::laugh:
I paid $500. So far Ive harvested- nice set of buckets complete console and horseshoe shifter- have you seen the prices on those lately? nice 72 Skylark or GS grill (I already painted it) console shift column nice black AC dash pad with no cracks good running 350 engine and auto trans instrument cluster 72 front bumper with original chrome that looks like it was an NOS replacement at one time I could probably sell the grill for $300
No burnouts sadly. No brakes at all on it and I couldn't get a pedal (I tried). The thing looked so bad, I had to hide it behind my garage quick. Gotta keep up appearances and not make my house look like Sanford & Son! Its bad enough my neighbor already calls me "Lamont" :spank: I already started parting it out. Most of the interior is stripped out. Today I managed to cut the console brackets out of it and cut the section of floor that had the hole for the shifter in it. I saved it for use as a template. Whats interesting is that the engine is drilled for a Z bar stud. Maybe it was destined to be a 4 speed engine and wound up in this car at the factory?? Most 350 that I have gotten my hands on were never drilled if they were auto's
Today, the Swamp Thing has been laid to rest! It was sold new in Bay Shore, NY and 43 years later, it was crushed in Bay Shore, NY. I did leave the wheels on it, but they were 14's and really rusty. My neighbor filled the interior with scrap metal and old welder parts. It weighed 2700 lbs and I got $74 for it all. I felt kinda sad leaving it there....
Wow, I'd say!! The one taulb and I did a couple years ago netted about 4x that amount and we didn't have that much stuff added inside!
Cowl was rotted to death. It was bad. Rotted right up to the windshield glass. The H clips had even rotted away. Floors were weird- most places they weren't rotted through, just paper thin. Under the rear seat was horrific. The frame had a huge hole in it right where the rocker met the left fender. I couldn't even save the control arms, they were pitted to death! I didn't kill it, the last owner did it in. I was just the mortician
If I remember right it was almost $400, and I would gladly pay $400 to get the image of the forks penetrating the poor helpless GS 350 out of my head.
