Value? My Father-in-laws 1971 Cutlass Supreme Convertible

[njsteve]

Wheel wells and tons of undercoating. Do they look like original assembly line drums? I think the front rotors may have been replaced. Opinions?

I also have to fix the gas gauge. The gauge has E to F on the top of the circular gauge in the 11:00 to 1:00 position clockwise, but the needle is pointing to 3:00 o'clock. When I was under the car I saw the ground is correctly attached and not broken. Bad sending unit in the tank? I initially thought maybe the tank was empty but I tried to add 5 gallons and only got 3 in before it was full.

Tomorrow I will do the compression check. And one of my friends loaned me his pressure washer so I can get some of that "extra" chassis grease off the front suspension. It looks like whenever they attempted to lubricate the suspension pieces they decided that "on" was just as good as "in" the zerk fittings. (Keep in mind those front end photos were after I spent 20 minutes with a scraper, removing the globs of old grease just so I could find the zerk fittings.) Thankfully all the front end componentry was tight: idler arm, tie rod end, ball joints, etc.

Stay tuned!