Introducing Project Sabre, 1971 Cutlass S Pro-Touring car

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Here is how it sat on 9/12/12 at Bulldawg Musclecar's shop:





Here are some pictures of the front fenders and the floorpan progress:





The front fenders are done and ready for paint. The body is still being worked on, but it getting much closer. Hopefully another few weeks and it'll be ready for painting. The front floor pans had some very very tiny pin holes. Not much to worry about, but since it was down this far, I went ahead and got some new front pans to have installed, as I don't want to mess with it again.

The seat mounts are going to be redone, as they currently are just tack welded and don't have any supports or tie-ins to the structure. The body guy is tackling that as well as the floor pans. His goal is to have it in the booth between mid to late december and early january. That would put us starting to reassemble around the second week in january. With any luck, all the pieces will fall into place and it'll be on the road within a month of finishing paint. That would give us several weeks of road testing and tweaking to get it ready for spring-time events.

On the upholstery, nothing so far. He is slammed and hasn't had time to get to our seats or doors yet.

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Met with the body guy last week, and also met the painter. We went to the supply shop and bought the last of the body work materials they will need to get it ready for paint. They anticipate having it ready to go into the booth in 4 weeks. Paint should take a day or two, roughly, then it will sit in their shop for a few weeks to cure before going back to Bulldawg.

I haven't had a chance to get to Bulldawg's shop in a while, but hope to carve out some time an evening or two next week. I will skip measuring for the driveshaft until the body is mated to the frame and everything is installed, so that the measurement is 100% correct. The brakelines I ordered came in, but not to me. Someone, somewhere has a new set of stainless brakelines for a 71 cutlass. Thankfully InlineTube is filing a claim and sending me another set, which I hope to have in a week or so. Bulldawg bought the flexible lines for the fronts, so those are already at their shop. Now comes the fun part: the mad dash to finish everything before spring arrives.

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We finally received the brake lines. Funny thing was the same day they were delivered, a store a few doors down that swore up and down that they didn't receive our package, had an employee bring us the missing package. So we shipped it back to the vendor and let them know it was coming.

No real updates other than the body guy and his helper are cranking away on getting it ready for paint hopefully in a few more weeks.