Project 64 Olds

[Doggins]

I have posted pics before but thought a Formal intro to my hooptie might be nice.
It's a 1964 Oldsmobile F85 Sport Coupe
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V8
nothing fancy it was built with a Tach though and the floor shift!
350 Olds now I am stalled at replacing the floor pans since it is so freaking cold and snowing pretty good. Hopefully be in the garage soon. Plan on just getting this thing driving. Then swap to a 700R4 and disc brakes. Try to keep it looking as stock as possible not some chalk mark bolt degreeing nut but make it look new but hot rodded with a nice tall stance like it would have been done in the sixties.

Here it is in all it's glory!

Hopefully it will look like this soon mostly the driveable part.

Someday maybe like this

Or this

[Scott Liggett]

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Hopefully it will look like this soon mostly the driveable part.

That pic was taken by John McGann on the 06 Anti-Tour. It was on the Gold Coast Hwy on Coronnado Island on the return run back to LA. I was about three cars behind.

[Two Lane Blacktop]

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Love the post A-bodies!! And the more "bare", the better!! Right down to rubber floor covering!!

The '64/5 F-85 w/poverty caps, on steelies w/ tall & thick (redlines), straight seats....yeahhhhhhhhhh!

Friend had precisely what was just described, 4-speed, 330-4bll, 4.10, light champagne gold & matching interior.

Ordered it new in fall of '64. Only mods I remember him doing were headers w/ Corvair turbo-muffs,
& a Super Sun mounted on the RH side of the steering column. His front & rear tires were tall 4-ply
bias-belted ("Pennsylvania Patrol & Pursuit") units, the same brand of hi-perf tires used by LE & SHP.

Total stealth sleeper. Took a lotta $$$ from bigger-motored cars (w/less traction), too!! ;)

He ordered an early '68 Cutlass S, another 4-speed straight-seat post car...w/the W-31 option. :o

[Doggins]

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Ya Right on! For some reason I love the plain jane cars don't get me wrong L79 Novas and SS and Super Duty and the W cars and the Hemis and The like are to die or kill for or whatever but the more fancy racing stripes and 20" chrome wheels and stuff I see I think the more I start to like the cars with the dog dish hubcaps the plain paint the posts and stuff. Basically the sleeper cars.
My car is pretty weird in that it isnt a cutlass but it had like all the stuff I would have ordered stuff that actually counts for something. Nothing really fancy. but came with stuff Like the bucket seats the V8 motor the floor shifter with the Tach. Cant remember if it came with AC. I would have ordered power brakes though!

[PYSCHOWard]

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I like the BOP's, it looks like solid foundation to build on,the floors always go from setting to close to the ground in dampness. I scrapped a 60 Chevy with less than 7000 miles on it, because the floors we're gone.
But that was yrs ago,before repair panels we're availble, also scrapped a 63 SS, with bad qtrs. Hey, they we're building new Hotrods every day back then. Livin the Rust belt sucks,it was even worse yrs ago to find parts, locally or within a couple hundred miles.

[JOES66FURY]

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The body looks pretty solid, how much more metal work do you have left besides the floors?

[Doggins]

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The rear window channel needs to be replaced which I will probably do from scratch since I cant find repros. The Trunk pans might barely get by with some small patches otherwise the body is pretty solid but the previous owner filled the trim hole down the whole body with bondo and the rear window channel was made from aluminum and bondo! I think the quarters wont need to be replaced there are a fw spots that need some attention but I think they will be ok. Luckily the rust is bad but pretty easy stuff to replace and stuff that I can do. Most of the rust I think was from the 1/4" of undercoating on the car which looked like it flaked off and then create pockets for the water and dirt to be trapped and then rust. Which makes me hesitant to use anything under there like that bedliner stuff that has alot of thickness.

[Freiburger]

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The top parts will probably be the same as a Chevelle sedan.

[Doggins]

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Ya I haven't found anyone that makes the parts. And I probably wouldn't have much luck finding a chevelle in a junk yard around here.

[Stoneshrink]

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I've replaced those channels on a 65 Chevelle and on a couple 67 Camaros - some of the easiest body work I've ever done.... used 18 ga mild steel and tig'd them in using everdure rod. (silicon bronze).
I am going to put 17/18s on my A body - but everytime I think about going down to do it I see the poverty caps on mine and think "why?" I like the look.

[Doggins]

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I figured it would be pretty easy even for me to fab up some new channels and they wouldn't be seen. But if you got some pics of how you made them that would be sweet. I was contemplating making dog dish hubcaps from some stainless dog dish caps from walmart.