Category Archives: Restoration
right after finishing up the paint job
I always thought it was nice that the camera didnt show how bad the car really was but now i wish it could show up better since it looks real good now
Start of Fiberglass work
Here is where I am starting with the fiberglass work, it is amazing how many cracks the trunk lid had. I also have it parked beside the old Eldorado so you can get a general idea how easy it is going to be to fit that drivetrain into it.
Finally an update :) Pictures of the car before getting ready to repair and repaint. trying to show what condition the stripes are in and what they looked like.
First time driving the car under its own power and detailed pics of the shaky jake pinstripes
finishing up the motor details and putting a delco alternator on it.
Re-installing the body
Body is finally back on the car and waiting for a hinge setup to be made on the rear and the engine to be put together and all my new chrome parts added to it.
Pics of the 76 Eldorado to be used in the future engine swap
In case anyone is wondering if I painted it blue this is the cadillac I got that has a 500 cubic inch engine and front wheel drive setup that would be real nice to put in the car right away but I wan’t the car running by this summer not 3 summers from now so [...]
Pictures of the Subaru EA-82 engine before removal
I decided this engine needed some work to get it running. I tried to make some sense out of it. I managed to get the timing belts installed on it and some of the covers even looked like they could fit without much trouble. I started to look closely at the engine wiring and decided [...]
Checking the layout with the Steering Wheel and wiring the gauges
Once the gauges where all set where I thought they should be I needed to check and make sure they all were seen with the steering wheel in front of them so I stuck the body back on the car and tried it out. It all fit and worked out almost perfect. the signal indicators [...]
test fitting the gauges in the new layout
Once I got the holes cut I put the gauges back in the holes to see how well they lined up. You can see that I also moved the radio into a normal spot.
Filling in the old gauge holes in the dash
I didn’t like the layout of the dash, all the gauges were way to far apart and took up to much room. as well as no room for a cd player or any other junk I might want to add. I filled in all the old holes with fiberglass and will cut new ones when [...]
Removing the old wiring from the dash
Here is where the fun finally starts. I took the wire looms off the dash wiring. now you can see what a mess the wiring was. it always looks nicer inside wire looms I quickly gave up on keeping the wiring and decided to redo most of it, if it wasn’t an obvious wire and [...]
Detailed pics of the body and frame
Here are some random pictures I took to try and show what all of the parts of the car looked like. I had it took apart enough to start rebuilding it and getting it running again so I figured this was a good time to take lots of pictures in case I needed before and [...]
stripping the body off the frame
Here are some Pictures of right after I took the body off the frame I was hoping with the body off the wiring would make some sort of sense but it was almost completely insane from what I could tell. there were 4 switches on the dashboard side and 2 of them seemed to control [...]
Making a mold of the broke drivers window
Here is a mold I tried to make out of the broken drivers side window. It looked good and would have probably worked but I didn’t have any oven big enough to put the new window in. I gave up and just fixed a new window up the best way I could think of.
Detailed Pics of the car’s problems
These are some pictures I took to try and get a general idea of what was going to be needed to get this thing in some sort of running condition. There was no interior to speak of and the person who wired it must have had stock in the crimp on connector company, there were [...]
Right after getting the car home
Here is what the car looked like when I got it off the truck it was shipped on. It looks pretty good and I was suprised how good it looked compared to what the description I got of it was. I thought I would have it made and have the car running in a month [...]