I am moving right along:-)

I finished the rear wheel wells and did more and more books and crannies:-)

I think I will do the face of the firewall next and then I will work on the little spots I can't wire wheel by hand.

I am so happy with the progress, and I have spun the car back and forth many times.

Ryan

A few pictures:-)

Even the nooks and crannies are getting done

Ryan

Take the seat belt bolts out...
Looks good ..

Happy 327 Day:-) I invited Al Stager over for a visit to see his old car on the rotisserie. We had a great visit and chatted about the scene in Ayr Ontario back in the day:-) Al and his family are very happy that their Cutlass is getting all the TLC i can muster. Al and Lynn even gave me a bag of items from my car:-) one of the rear arm rests, the spare keys with an Ayr County Garage key tag, and several photos (fairly recent pics, from the past decade)

This was such a nice visit!!!

Ryan

Thumbs Up:-)

Ryan

Very cool.....Nice Hat :D

Dan

Dan and Dan, I wore my DAY2 Speed Shop hat:-)

Here are some pictures of the goodies Al and Lynn gave me last night.

Ryan

Some pictures, I will ask when these were taken? (not back in the day for sure)

Ryan

http://i.imgur.com/xQBuZWe.gif


kickass for the ones that dont get the gif..

Wow, the underside looks really great, congrats on your forward progress.

Ha, nice square mesh 4 speed covering.

Dan

More progress, I spent a few hours preparing the firewall for eventually paint.

The whole cowl and firewall is perfect:-) on the sides of the cowl I cleaned off the black coating and there is the original glade green paint:-)

Ryan

Pull the wiper arms, pull the lower windshield trim and the cowl seal and wire mesh.
Scuff, prep and paint the top of the entire cowl....you are right there, it only makes sense.
Then you will be complete, just as I recommended you do a year ago :-)

Dan

MAW.......

Might As Well.......

Ryan

More cleaning the underside, smaller and smaller tools:-)

Ryan

Fun and exciting.....looking great :D

Dan

Wow, did your car clean up nice. That looks like a very clean car.

I spent a few more hours cleaning under the car.

More nooks and crannies.

I am having a hard time finding how good is good enough..... I know how much of this will show later..... but I love the idea of making it really nice underneath, and someday it can be really nice on top:-)

Ryan

Keep cleaning until you are satisfied.. Then go over it one more time. When doing prep work you can never do too much..

Sounds about right.

I am not close to ready for a the final once over but getting closer each day:-)

Ryan

I saw a cool upgrade on FaceBook a fellow 1969 Olds owner posted pictures of using an Autometer Tach in the original dah opening. I happen to have almost the same tach from my Chevelle:-)

Looks like a nice fit, he says it press fits into the dash with no fasteners:-)

Ryan

Just my opinion.....I would not put that ugly monster tach in a nice original dash....you can get a much better looking tach that will look the part.....and look much more correct and at home.

You'll thank me later.

Dan

It looks pretty cool and it's free:-)

How do I get the 12 inch long sawzall blades into the dash to make room? :-)

I also have the hood tach if needed for a while it could be used.

Ryan

Your car and you should do whatever makes you happy but I would do a mini shift light before I would add an aftermarket tach in the dash.

I want one of those as well:-)

Ryan

Ryan,

We ran one of these vintage bad boys on our blown altered for years. Apart from the fact they look cool, they work great with the cable drive.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-JONE...NY29Qx&vxp=mtr

petronix makes a sweet little rev limiter that fits in the palm of your hand. set it, hide it and pound away.

I like the vintage Tachs, they are on the someday list.

My ignition has a rev limiter built in. Crane XRi:-) I will set it low and work my way up:-)

Ryan

Nice progress!

The 68-69 Olds dash has unique challenges and opportunities. I've tried mocking up an old S-W tach on my column, and it doesn't fit well because of the dash pad shape, unless you put it right in front of the speedometer or clock it nearly 90 degrees down on each side. I used to have pics but can't find them. However, the monster tach conveniently slides into the gauge cup area, and it's really hard to notice from outside the car because of how deep the gauge holes are. It definitely will make you more excited to drive it than a dash clock...

On my 69' W-30, I installed a tach in the far RH instrument cove ... came out pretty nice ... TAZ

I have seen a few 1969 F85/Cutlass S with this tach in the side dash pod.

Looks pretty cool to me:-)

Ryan

I have a tach drive distributer for an Oldsmobile
And a moroso jones tach....

Call me about these items in 2018:-)

Ryan

I agree with Dan. Put a Sun Tach or a Sun Super Tach (but absolutely NOT a Sun Super Tach ll) on the steering column and forget about it and move on. Then you'll thank ME and DAN years down the road. Sell that one at a swap meet and get yourself a nice Sun.

Send a picture of one:-)

I am pretty sentimental about my monster tach:-) My wife used to show me her "high score", it has a memory button:-)

Ryan

Ryan use ant tachometer you
Want to it's your car!!!

My car, my money, my Tach......... "I did it my way"

I love the back and forth and aLways get great advice on here:-)

I can't wait till my car is together and my big ugly tach is the top priority/decision:-)

Ryan

PS: I have the morning carved out of a busy weekend for more wire wheeling are preparation for small rust repairs.

I spent a solid 5 hours Saturday and 5 hours again today on the car:-)

I am going after rust spots :-(

Here is one of the body mounts that rusted out, I will media blast it and move the cage and nut over to a fresh piece of metal and weld it in.

Ryan

I have been working away at the drivers side rear wheel well, there is rust where the trunk floor, inner wheel well, and trunk support all meet up. I have wire wheeled and ground and picked and hammered away but the rust is deeper than I can get to from the outside....... I want to be able to sleep at night after completeing this chassis restoration...... so I drilled out the spot welds and removed the trunk support. This will allow me to media blast the inside of the support and weld up the body mount and a few week spots in the support. I will spray the back side with weld through primer and it will be good for a hundred years:-)

This will also allow me access to repair the trunk floor right at the edge where it meets the wheel well, I will add a pice of sheet metal and weld it all at the same time where the spot welds were:-)

I will also grind the backside of the wheel well in this area so no rust is left:-)

I am pretty sure this means I will be restoring some of the inside of the trunk, which I was going to do later anyways.

Pity no one will see this:-)

"Quality is doing the right thing when no one is watching" but if I share pictures you will be watching..... it's late:-)

The passenger side wheel well had a similar situation but not as bad, I was able to drill out the spot welds separate the three pieces of sheet metal, and grind between each piece with a carbide Burr in a die grinder...... I am not restoring this to flip it:-)

This is how pretty it looks before I weld it back together, clamped up with vise grips for now.

Ryan