Hello from Maryland

[woodsrider250]

Hello All,

New here. Just bought a '74 C20, 2WD, 350 qjet, long bed. 60k original miles, and bought from the original owner's son ("Grandpa" had recently passed). The thing is quite cherry. Next to no rust (Ziebart'd at dealer in 1974, and taken care of). Motor/trans run well aside from shot accel pump. Has 3rd party aftermarket A/C, and some sort of beastly 70's classIII+ hitch that necessitates the spare be carried in the bed.

Happy owner of an old simple 2wd v-8 vehicle again. I raced oldsmobiles years ago, and the 455 swap thread is pretty cool. Thanks to this site I have identified my rear end as well, and confirmed my guess that it has 4.10's in it (haven't even jacked it up yet). I will surely have questions as I continue on with this thing. Long time GM guy, but never got into the nuances of the pickups....in time....

I'd love to do a lot to this thing, but it's so nice I think all I'm going to do is go through all the rubber/etc, buff it, etc. A test buff spot came out amazing. The motor is a turd so down the road will likely pallet the original motor/trans/rear, and go 454/etc out the back.

Cheers! -John

 

[89Suburban]

Welcome aboard neighbor!!

 

[Irishman999]

Welcome! Sounds like a good project to me.

 

[HotRodPC]

Welcome Aboad !!! Another Olds guy !!!

 

[bucket]

 

[Old77]

 

[woodsrider250]

Thanks all.

Yes, I was very much an Olds *** back in the day, but never a Mopar or Ford guy....that's drag queen status...LOL Everyone and their Brother had a Nova/Chevelle/Camaro/Mustang/etc, and I went for something different....while still keeping with an A-body. They were cheaper too at the time. I paid $75 for my 71 Cutlass base 350R in 1991. Screwed around with that thing as a teen, and later came across a barn find 70 442/4sp/W30/AC for $2500! Stupidly sold that thing for a 2x profit at $7500 a few years later. During that time I gutted the 71, caged, built 455, blah, blah. I think I had the only low-11 second Olds in the state with a Quadrajet on it.

 

[HotRodPC]

hmmm, well I'm loving the story about the cars, that's awesome. But about being an Olds ***, I'm kinda speechless. Although, this is the place to throw it all out there and no need to hide in the closet. We're pretty open minded around here. In fact, we do even have a drag queen on the forum too. I'm sure you'll meet him. Retro is here all the time too.

I don't even like to admit this, in 85 I believe it was, I DROVE a 69 Cutlass over the scale, along with DROVE my 64 Grand Prix over the scale. I was moving from LA to Sacramento, had 5 cars to move up there and moving in with gf's family, so noway I had a place to park them or a way to get them there, and the extra cash came in handy. I got like $70 a car.

 

[woodsrider250]

LOL!!! This was in rebuttal to rainbow balloon graphic

 

[HotRodPC]

LOL!!! This was in rebuttal to rainbow balloon graphic

OK I get it. It's OK brah, let it all hang out. We're easy around here.

 

[CknightK10]

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[woodsrider250]

My 442 was THE Situation, Bitch!

 

[CknightK10]

Just bought a '74 C20, 2WD, 350 qjet, long bed. 60k original miles, and bought from the original owner's son

Its awesome when you can find stuff like that.... Had it been stored in a barn or anything like that?

 

[woodsrider250]

Amazingly, stored outside it's whole life and still is basically rust-free. 0mile Ziebart, and owner taking impeccable care of it did the trick!

 

[HotRodPC]

When do we gets pics of it? You've already exceeded the 48 hour deadline of posting pics or get banned. Didn't you see that in the rules when you signed up?