100 years of GM book

[kgl271]

This weekend I picked up a book about an inch thick about GMs 100 years. In the 1977 section, I saw Brad's 442. Great keepsake on the coffee table.

[Doug Blake]

Good reading. Kev any progress on your 77?

[kgl271]

It is a slow progress. I got the carb rebuilt and still working to get that to run by using the gas pedal, I can put gas in the carb and it runs fine, just cant get it to start cold inside the car. Got some sheet metal from Greg Freiert on the site to help replace the cancer by the back window. Got a welder to start replacing floors. Would like to maybe get it to were I can drive it next summer but will have to see how winter goes.

Whats new with you?

[Doug Blake]

That's alright, your getting there! Keep picking at it. It sounds like you have a hole in the fuel line. On my 77 the rubber lines from the tank were cracked and sucking air.

It's not been my year Kev, after 16-years of dispatching FT for the school busses for 1st Student i got laid off March 31st, and while driving to my PT job Aug 7th at Carmike Cinemas making a whopping $7-hr (even after 7-yrs) some lady ran red light in her Toyota Hylander Hybrid and t-boned/totaled my daily driver 86 442. So i got bumps, and bruises, and a broken leg. So just been laid up at home since then. My bones arn't strong, and don't heal fast since i can't walk. I was hoping Jerry Lewis was gonna suprise me during telethon, but guess gotta keep holding my breath.

[kgl271]

ouch that stinks. Get better quick! So is the 442 salvageable?

[Doug Blake]

Yea State Farm totaled it out and said value was $750, but I pd $150 to buy it back from them, so I'm just waiting on friend to part it out. I plan on using bunch of parts for my 85 442 that's been sitting just since 1995 lol to make that my daily driver.

[kgl271]

That really stinks, but at least you have it back to get parts from it. I remember that when my 80 Cutlass with T tops was totaled, the Ins co said I can not buy it back. So to the junk yard it went, by the time I found it, it was well molested.