LOOK What I found in my quarter panel!!

I thought I would share the mess i uncovered tonight. This dirt was packed up about 8 inches into the rear quarter panel just before the rear wheel. I had to chisel it out it was so compacted. The car is a 56 olds 2dr. post. Bought it off a fellow hamber, who bought it off of another hamber. I'm keeping it in the family. Supprinsingly the rest of the car is not that bad. I will have to replace the front floors and rockers.

 

I wanted to buy that car too. A little dirt is not bad. If it was 8 inches of bondo, different story.

What are your plans for it?

 

Yeah like he said better than a bunch of bondo.

 

Looked like a dead turtle in the thumbnail.

That's allotta dirt... someone was having some dirt track fun!

Cool car though...

 

My plans are to make it a mild custom. Shaved, clean up some lines, and lower it down a little. Still going back and forth on motor options. I have a line on a 455 olds motor but I would like to keep the original 324.

 

I feel your pain. The photo below is what I cleaned out of the floor boards when I replace the floor pan in my Chevy.

 

Early method of lowering in L.A. fill the quarters with dirt, trunk with sandbags chop the front spings down and you be the numero uno SA vato loco Holmes. Laying frame literally.

 

love those olds...cool taillights, grille, cool dash and gauges...put the dirt back and I will gladly take it off your hands...nice car

 

Very nice start on a cool Olds, it'll make a very cool cruiser. My old Model T at the bottom of the cowl was worse it had four inches of bondo, dirt is easier to remove. Good luck with the new ride..

CRUISER

 

Geez... why did you have to conjur up nightmares of my cousin's falcon ranchero... bags of concrete was his method of lowering. Poor ol' thing...

Numero uno estupido...

 

Well, if you change drivetrains, and its the car I think it is, I'll be up for the standard trans and associated parts....

 

Maybe your cousin should do a tech post...did he at least use rebar?

 

That would make sense. I didn't think about that. At first i was thinking that the car was sitting in a creek somewhere. That might explain the dirt I found in the floor support channels.

 

Hhhmmmmm. Interesting. Nice Olds though. Let us know if you want to sell it.

 

I knew somebody, somewhere would finally find Jimmy Hoffa. He looks a little worse for the wear.

 

Nah... it was more like he went to home depot to get grandpa a couple bags of concrete... then got out of the Ranchero after it was loaded and said "eeeeh... chek et out... et looks good eh?" "I tink i'll leeve et"

When he wasn't looking a few days later I took the damn concrete out of the back of that poor thing. He was too lazy to put it back in. If I wasn't around, who know how long that concrete would've stayed back there.