Search results for query: *

  1. Oyster60V200

    Rust! Should I sell it?

    Ditto to all posts saying they love to do serious rust repair! While I’m doing it, I’m complaining, but seriously, there is something majorly therapeutic about reconstructing a tinworm addled car and making it whole again. After a while, it does get kind of repetitive. Oh yeah, another spare...
  2. Oyster60V200

    ‘60 V-200 White Lightning!

    Thanks for the words of encouragement! As you can see, I need them since this project is now in its 24th year! Geez, when I bought my first car, my '71 Saab, back in 1995, IT was 24 years old! Time flies, and I need a garage! Hopefully this summer...
  3. Oyster60V200

    ‘60 V-200 White Lightning!

    I figured it was time for an update, although I can't say that much has been accomplished to White Lightning. More in preparation for its next workspace location. I should probably mention that I own a house that has no garage (yet) and I manage to work on my fleet either outdoors or in a tiny...
  4. Oyster60V200

    ‘60 V-200 White Lightning!

    [ATT Much appreciated! Glad to have you along. Saabs (95s and 96s at least) are getting tougher and tougher to find since they, like MoPar A-bodies, were so reliable they invited neglect and rust. When I was visiting Breckenridge, a block up the road from our rental property was a Saab...
  5. Oyster60V200

    ‘60 V-200 White Lightning!

    Here is White Lightning during summer 2000. Axle is out and 8 3/4" axle is in background ready to be installed. That's my Saab 96 in the background and even further back is my friend's Dodge 600 convertible with a blown Mitsu 2.6 head gasket looking for free labor. Below is the Super Six 225...
  6. Oyster60V200

    ‘60 V-200 White Lightning!

    This is White Lightning pretty much as found in 1997, photographed here in 1999. Dull oyster white paint and a seized 170 slant six and mouse pee musty red interior with ugly faded re-covered seats. Fortunately for this V-200, my neglect through the years avoided what I call the "douche effect"...
  7. Oyster60V200

    ‘60 V-200 White Lightning!

    White Lightning looking very sad in what I'll call a "before" picture. It was, from the time it was rescued from the swamp in '15 until this spring, a seat storage room for interior parts from other parts cars. That's an early '80s VW Rabbit seat behind the steering wheel. Fenders are surface...
  8. Oyster60V200

    ‘60 V-200 White Lightning!

    Picking up the V-100 parts car in late April this year. Good front brightwork and correct 1960 bumper (White Lightning has an incorrect '61 without the little overrider "teeth" which I prefer. Then again, I like 1950 Buicks so that would naturally follow... That's a ratcheting tie down holding...
  9. Oyster60V200

    ‘60 V-200 White Lightning!

    Here are some photos after rescuing White Lightning from the swamp on July 4, 2015. Not a pretty sight. A squirrel or other very large rodent made a mess out of the front seat necessitating tearing off the upholstery to the springs. That nasty synthetic 70s seat material ended up right in the...
  10. Oyster60V200

    ‘60 V-200 White Lightning!

    Hi guys, Pictures definitely to follow! When I sat down to write this dissertation, I had no idea it would reach such proportions, and wrote it on my iPhone X! I think I discovered small bones and joints in my wrists and hands I never knew existed until they started to hurt like hell... so being...
  11. Oyster60V200

    ‘60 V-200 White Lightning!

    What a great idea to have these restoration threads! Back when I did my first restoration of my ‘71 Saab 96 in 1999, I posted to an online forum weekly and it kept me on track to know that other people knew what I was supposed to be working on. If only I had such devotion to White Lightning, but...
  12. Oyster60V200

    Hello A-Body forum!

    Hi, I’m Charlie Melonic and I’ve been a 1960 Valiant V-200 owner since 1997, but I’ve never driven this car! When I got it, the 170 was sitting since 1983 and was frozen solid from storage. NOTHING would free it up. A friend from high school parted out his ‘71 Dart Swinger in 2000 and I bought...
  13. Oyster60V200

    Under restoration

    Under restoration
Back
Top