Junkyard Emergency: 1969 Olds Cutlass Second Convertible Rescue Mission

Junkyard emergency of biblical proportions! Junkyard Life brother, Keith Lively, has done the impossible. Forget flight or fourth dimension travel, this guy BOUGHT an entire automobile from a fight yard! The official records volition read that he did non purchase a car, he bought every unmarried business office of the car. How many times guide maintain nosotros tried to create that as well as got the obligatory negative caput milk tremble as well as a manus pointing at the door?

All hands on deck

“Junkyard Emergency!” an excited vocalisation yelled on the other halt of my phone. I knew this was serious business. So, I dropped everything as well as bee-lined to the fight place. And hold off what I found. Keith Lively sitting on, guarding if you lot will, his bounty as well as novel matter to do. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 1969 Oldsmobile Cutlass convertible!
Keith’s father, amongst trailer inward tow, as well as I arrived at the same time. It was my plough to stand upwards guard patch they sealed the deal. My hands were plastered against the convertible every bit they made it all official amongst the fight yard. Sold!

Baca Juga

Consider this babe rescued. Good finally wins over evil. Finally, the automobile guys triumph over fight prices.

Keith Lively rescued this 1969 Olds Cutlass convertible from an Alabama fight yard. He plans a full resto-mod on the rough-but-complete, Crimson Red rag top.

What does he guide maintain here, really?
Keith has what I suspect to live a triple cerise Cutlass S convertible amongst an Oldsmobile 350-cu. inch V-8. The driblet top is well-optioned amongst ability brakes, ability steering, air conditioning, bucket seats, amongst (dig this) no console. That’s right, it has a column shifter as well as buckets. Keith as well as I spend upwards to believe individual merely added buckets as well as didn’t guide maintain a console to install. No, the seats seem to check perfectly to the dorsum seat. Almost forgot to bring upwards the solid, rust-free frame as well as 12-bolt raise halt out back.
The treasure breast gets heavier when you lot consider a real odd 3-spoke Sport steering bike optioned on the Oldsmobile. You honour a lot of “base model” steering wheels, which almost seem to live upside downwards or you lot may live lured to the sporty appeal of the famous 4-spoke Sport Wheel. The Oldsmobile dorks over hither at Junkyard Life guide maintain non seen many of these agency cool, 3-spoke steering wheels inward Keith’s ’69 Cutlass.

The cerise rag top has the upscale Cutlass S trim down on the fenders extending all the agency downwards the imperial sides of this driblet top. It seems to guide maintain the master copy pigment (code 52 Crimson Red). The hood? Oh, my. It has the “S” or Supreme hood that too made an appearance on the 442’s of the 1969 model year. We honey that hood. How many of the 13,498 Cutlass convertibles built are yet around?

Cutlass convertible on the chopping block at a local fight yard as well as jumped into activeness Junkyard Emergency: 1969 Olds Cutlass S convertible rescue mission

Peek at the rare 3-spoke wheel. Note the column shifter as well as the bucket seats.

What doesn’t he guide maintain here?
The driblet topper has no radiator as well as does non guide maintain the master copy wheels. Boo-hoo. We tin give the sack accept attention of that inward brusk order. The frame for the convertible top as well as the mechanisms seem to live inward practiced shape, although the cloth is long gone.

Loaded upwards as well as trucking habitation amongst the latest project. Junkyard envy?

Get out at that topographic point as well as construct something
We welcome this add-on to the identify unit of measurement of Junkyard Life Oldsmobiles nosotros guide maintain rescued as well as played with. This rare Olds has fallen into practiced hands as well as the halt of its life flush is close to live rewritten. Good stuff. Great negotiating skills as well as a existent life, “I can’t believe this!” story. We volition showtime on this automobile later nosotros tin give the sack finally halt high-fiving each other.

Ron Kidd
— Junkyard Life

Keith Lively, left, as well as Ron Kidd, right, assume the “hands-on-don’t touch-my-car” topographic point patch guarding the prized, fight yard ’69 Cutlass convertible.

Big dent inward the Cutlass rider door is the effect of a forklift moving the automobile at the fight yard.

Original 350-cu. inch Olds engine nether the hood, nosotros think.

A novel convertible top volition brand a huge departure inward the appearance of this neglected ’69 Cutlass.

Keith Lively stands proudly beside his latest hot rod project. See his 1966 Chevy Impala, LS 6.0 AWD projection here.

1969 Cutlass S hood amongst raise louvers, too used on non-Ram Air 4-4-2s.

A vintage 95 Rock tag adorns the ’69 Cutlass. 95 Rock was ”the” Birmingham, Alabama stone station inward the 1980s.

Bright Cutlass S trim down runs the length of the 1969 Olds convertible.

A chip to a greater extent than air inward the replacement security earlier she rolls off the trailer as well as the fight yard treasure lands at its novel home.

Last fourth dimension this 1969 Cutlass had a novel tag – 1987.

Would you lot guide maintain the guts to rescue this 1969 Cutlass? Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lot of go ahead for Keith Lively, but he gets it – this is a dream car.