Project with my Grandson

[Nuts]

It's a buick, but I thought I'd share this with my friends here. We finally got started on the 1970 Buick Skylark this weekend. It's a 1970 Buick Skylark, 2 door hardtop, 350 with auto trans, A/C , power brakes and bench seat. It started out to be a project for one of my nephews, but he lost interest, so I bought the car a couple years ago, to build for my oldest grandson.

I told him that if came over and turned the wrenches on the project, I would fund it and when completed it would be his car. We don't plan a full off restoration, just freshen up and make it a safe driver for him to have during high school. It needs some seat covers for the front seat, door panels for the front, new bushings in the front suspension and alittle body work.

Well he showed up yesterday and started working on the truck area after we discovered it was full of water.

Only a couple of pin holes that had rusted through

Well if nobody is offended by a Buick project, I"ll try to keep you up to date as we progress.

Bill

 

[tripower]

Great Project for the grandson Bill... Keep us posted as to his progress...

 

[Clyde Waldo]

Bill, yes, keep us up to date on your & grandson's progress on the Buick. He will no doubt have fond memories of you two working together on the car. My oldest grandson is going to Raken in St. Louis and learning about cars and has even shown interest in some of my past car projects especially the 409 powered 55 T-Bird.

Kids now days have it made - I never had a car when I was in high school (maybe 4 or 5 kids) but then I went to high school in the olden days.

 

[Dick MacKenzie]

Great project Bill! He'll have the coolest ride in high school, for sure!

 

[k9hotrodder409]

Great project Bill. Grandkids are the BEST !!!. My grandson called me yesterday and asked if his Dad does'nt want the '61 Bel-Air Bubble, could he have it. He will be 14 this December. I told him to talk to his dad ! I'm staying out of this one !!

 

[plumcrazy]

Nuts, looks like a bunch of fun.... Keep the posts coming....

 

[petepedlar]

Looking great !!! Keep the young guys involved, especially a Grandson !!!!

DAve

 

[Barry Taylor]

Bill , Great project for both of you young men. I was going to suggest a Stage 1 455 @ Turbo 400 with a Kenn Bell switch pitch converter, and 4.11 gears, but I new I would stir things up. Never Mind, BT

 

[Nuts]

Barry, thanks for the suggestion, but for now we'll just try to make her a safe driver. If he gets into the high school drag scene maybe we'll bump it up a notch !!! Just never know, a "409" powered 70 Skylark ???

Bill

 

[Don Jacks]

NOW your talking Bill.By all means,keep em coming

 

[Swiss Impala]

Hello from Switzerland,
Bill, great idea, congratulations!
I wished more young people would have a grandpa like you!
Good luck with your project!

Franz

 

[jdk971]

find him an old nailhead for it. jim

 

[18htan]

Thats a cool project!

Give that boy some ear protection. You can't fix damaged hearing!

 

[Nuts]

Give that boy some ear protection

Nate, you are right, I need to rounds some plugs up for sure !!!! Thanks

 

[petepedlar]

find him an old nailhead for it. jim

.......... and you thought 409's were hard to find......... wait until you look for a 425 Nailhead !!!

Dave

 

[Don Jacks]

Yes Dave 425 nailheads are hard to find,they only made a few of them for a couple of years[far fewer than 409's]but there were plenty of 401's made,not that I'd recommend either one.

 

[Nuts]

Well we are making some good progress on the Buick... Got the truck all painted with POR and splater and it looks real good. Started tearing the front suspinsion apart yesterday and got most of it apart. This part of the project got us to thinking about disc brakes. Did they put disc brakes on the 70 model Buick/Pont/Chevy mid-size cars like Skylark and Chevelle ? What would it take to convert from the drum to disc brakes ?

I'll post some pictures of the progress soon.

Bill

 

[BRYAN FUGATE]

Check out this item number on ebay 370484399458 for the seller is scarebird I used his brackets to mount brakes on the front of my 63 very easy conversion.And spare parts are readily available.

 

[64ss409]

Well we are making some good progress on the Buick... Got the truck all painted with POR and splater and it looks real good. Started tearing the front suspinsion apart yesterday and got most of it apart. This part of the project got us to thinking about disc brakes. Did they put disc brakes on the 70 model Buick/Pont/Chevy mid-size cars like Skylark and Chevelle ? What would it take to convert from the drum to disc brakes ?

I'll post some pictures of the progress soon.

Bill

My son has disk brakes on his 70 Chevelle SS. I think they were first available as an option on the 67 Chevelle. I don't know if the spindles are different between disks and shoes. Master cylinders are different.

 

[jdk971]

i believe they were front disc rear shoes. jim

check v8buick.com