The Jalopy Journal
Hey Mike, cool that you joined here for sharing the project that will come up. I'm following every ITG video here in Germany and really like what...
Sure, why not. Sadly I don't have access to the AACA Forum from Germany. Don't know why. I will remove all the last pieces and plugs from the...
Yeah right, that's the reason why I did remove those. I don't want to bring them to the machine shop. The whole plan is not complete yet but I...
Did some Updates in my Oldsmobile related content. Here...
I borrowed an electrical grinder from work and ground out all the casting edges of my 1959 371 block before it will go to the machine shop....
Since I'm planning on getting new old tires very soon for the olds, I reworked the original steelies but kept the patina. [img] Wirewheeled...
Please keep in mind that I am over here in Germany and old V8s are not that common at the engine builder shops. The guy there told me that he...
Hey guys, I need your help once more. I was at an engine builders shop with the crank of my 1959 371 and since the washer section of the no.5 main...
I was able to do some more work to the car itself. Painted the inner floor with an black matte rust encapsulator last saturday. Maybe it will get...
No, I'm not using the app. But I noticed, if I use my mobile phone to have a look on my content here, all the pics show up. Must be a problem of...
Thanks a lot, Paul! If you guys are interested in the progress I made with this project please look here...
Had some free time over christmas and worked on the olds. Pulled the wiring harness to build a new one and worked a bit on the brakes. I was able...
I don't know why but I can't see all the embedded pics. The links are ok since I use them for some german forums also. Can all of u see all the pics?
As mentioned in the "Rocket Oldsmobile Information compiled"-thread I bought a 1959 371 Rocket a while ago to mount my freshly rebuild 56 Jetaway...
Hey Guys, I recently disassembled my 1959 371 to check everything and have the crank balanced for mating the engine to an earlier Jetaway later....
After soaking everything in Fertan for about two weeks it looked like that. [img] [img] [img] [img] [img] It is just a rust converter and in...
Thank you for the informative words, Dave. I had the tranny rebuilt from a guy who is doing the automatic transmissions for a professional us car...
Big thanks to Gary Oakford for sending me the correct flexplate from the US to my home base. Collecting the parts I will need to mount everything...
In the meantime I found the seats out of a 55 Buick Roadmaster real cheap and I was hoping to replace the old seat frames of my Olds with those. I...
[img] [img] [img] [img] [img] [img] [img] [img] [img] Since there was a big mice nest under the back seat and the little fellas...
Since the interior will be another whole project for itself I startet that by removing the door panels a few months ago. I have an interior guy at...
Here are the parts I bought at fusicks and a few pics outside in the sun at my shop. [img] [img] [img] And a pic of one of my other classic...
Here are some random pics I found in my Olds folder. Here in Germany we need to change the beams to get the car street legal. So I already bought...
Next step was to brush down the rust with an angle grinder and a wire brush. Sadly I found some more rust spots in the area behind the passenger...
I bought it from a guy down in the South of Germany. He is bringing cars overseas from time to time and wanted this one for a quick resto. When it...
Ok, cool to hear that all the pics are good. Here are some more of them doing the welding on the driver side floor. Not that bad like the...
[img] [img] [img] [img] [img] [img] [img] [img] [img] [img] [img] [img] [img] Everything you will see in here is happening in...
And here are the first pics of what I did to the floor: [img] [img] [img] [img] [img] [img] [img] [img] [img] [img]
First the interior was disassembled. I did that right after buying it. [img] [img] [img] [img] [img] [img] [img] [img] [img] [img]...
Since I already started a thread for my engine related questions about the rocket V8 I got and kept collecting parts and engines, I also would...
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