Note: Google sites has updated and changed quite a few things. Navigation is now via the labels at the top. The latest update will be the first one under Project Updates. I'm having trouble getting images to display in Firefox, but Chrome works fine.

Welcome to the site for my Cutlass project. It started life as a '72 Cutlass Supreme in Light Blue with a white vinyl top, Rocket 350 engine with single exhaust, Turbo-Hydramatic 350 transmission and an open 2.73 rear riding on 14" wheels. My dad bought it in '73 with 60k miles on the clock from a traveling salesman. He drove it for a long time, my mom drove it for a long time, my sister drove it through high school, and then it sat in front of the house for a few years gathering leaves and rust.

My dad and I did a restoration in '98/'99, and the picture above is from shortly after we finished. I drove it every day until July '06. Too many things went wrong at once, so I parked it awaiting a new restoration effort.

Fast forward to '10, I start making serious plans for the car. Then in late '11 I bought a '71 Supreme for parts, kicked my wife's car out of the garage, and had to start making real progress!

This site documents my plans (hopefully accomplishments!) for the project. Honestly, most of this is so I can keep track of things. My prior organization plan of lots of draft emails, bookmarks and text files just didn't suffice.

Feel free to browse! Hopefully this can be educational to some, entertaining to most. If you have any suggestions or comments, please contact me at oddball - at - oddworld.org

First off, a huge thank you to my wife for being incredibly patient and understanding, and thanks to my parents for being supportive of the endeavor. For those just starting out, there are invaluable resources at 442.com, the forums at classicoldsmobile.com have lots of helpful members, and realoldspower.com is full of bickering and really good racers.

I have both Flickr and Picasa collections right now, but I'm trying to focus on Picasa. Head over there to see a bunch of pictures.

For reference, here's how she looked in '06.