Projects Poorboy powerplant pullin' pizza party

I worked as I could last week getting the 365 engine ready to pull out of my '57 Caddy parts car. It's going replace the blown mill in my '56 Eldorado, which threw a rod through the block.

Anyhow, my back's fubar so I needed a lot of help with the heavy lifting. I put a call out to my club mates. I bribed them with cheap pizzas and plenty of beer. I think everyone had a good time, including 'Rascal' , my new shop pup.

Here are the More-door parts car, and the Eldo.




The guys all drove their hot rods, except for Mike (Earl Schieb) but I think his 'Caddy' shop truck is still plenty cool.







There's always one wire left connected. While Mike and Ricky worked at disconnecting it, 'Rascal' attacked Ricky and took his pizza away.






Here it comes, I got the easy job working the cherry picker. Kent used to ride rodeo, looks like that's what he's trying to do in the last pic.:

 

Way to go Poor Boys! Turn a job into some fun. Looks like Rascal enjoyed it too. Mike

 

Setting her down





I talked them into helping me swap these big tanks around too.




Dale took all the pics, here's one that I thought was cool.



Totally OT but had to move this outta the way too, something I've been tinkering on over the winter.

 

Now THATS what the brotherhood is about!

 

Cool keep us updated gator...hey where's the pickup ??

 

Gator...who's '57 2-door wagon is that?...I'm lookin' for one of those...

 

Looks like you guys had a blast. Its nice to see good old fashion car club help.

 

Funny you should ask, I painted your namesake Ed Roth character on the back of it for them a while back. I also striped it.



It belongs to Ricky and Dale in our club. They ran it as a panel for a couple of years then cut the meatl back out - the glass was still underneath. I never had any idea.

Dale said they're gonna flake the roof in Roth lime squeezer green over the winter.

 

That's a good-lookin' Caddy. Sorry I can't say the same for those thugs helping you. But good help is hard to find.

 

To my Brothers-from-another-mother, GREAT TEAM WORK !

Glad to see the gang come to your rescue and get the job done.

So, Captain Cadillac ....... what's the plans for the new ride?

 

Yes pray tell what are your plans for this beast?

 

Geez, you ought not talk about Ricky and Dale like that---you could hurt their feelings........

 

looks like you guys had a good ol time Gator! glad to see you managed to rangle everyone togather for a garage party/motor pull! keep up the brotherhood boys!

 

I love a good shop project with friends and hot pizza..looks like a fun and productive time.

 

more pics of the dog please..lol

 

Thats awsome guys! What its all about right there.

 

I'd like to see a closer shot of that intake manifold. Looks semi-tunnel-ram.

 

Brothers from diff'rent mothers helpin' each other... Just how God intended.

 

i can be bribed with beer n pizza too. looks like a great day and your dogs hardcase.

 

nice cad

i will also do about anything for beer and pizza.

 

Hey, I was glad to get the help! Thanks again to all the guys that showed up to help, and thanks for all the comments.

Yeah, the dog's a pistol. when someone sat a beer on the floor he knocked it over and started lapping it up.

Plans for the Caddy? First priority is to get it roadworthy again. I'd driven it to a show in Alabama right before I traded it so I shouldn't have too much to do. That was 3 years ago though...

It needs quarters and rockers, otherwise the body's in pretty good shape. I'll work at that over the winter - I'm thinking a deep red metallic for the paint.

The interiors pretty good to, I'm hoping to just get the leather panels redone and try and save the cloth, it's pretty unique.

 

aaaaaggghhhhh,
beer, pizza, and old Cadillacs,
I would have almost drove there from Florida to help ya Gator.

Ya'll are doing what a club is really all about.
Keep up the good work brothers.

 

Man, you 'parts car' is fairly nice, too.
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Way to go Gator rounding up the help of fellow members. Can't wait to see what you do with this Cad after the great job you did on the last one you had. keep up the good work and keep us all posted on the progress.

 

You have some good friends

 

Looking good keep us posted

 

Gator update on the Caddy??

 

The donor car supposedly had a documented 60k miles on it and sounded good when I started it up, so I decided to just clean it up and drop it back in. I figured it would be a bolt in deal but the exhaust manifolds and accessory mounting points are all different so I'm having to fab up some mounts for the alternator and I'll have to relocate the oil filter. The tranny is also about 5 inches shorter so I'll have to get the driveshaft redone.

Another thing causing me some grief - instead of simply unbolting core support the previous owner cut it out with a sawzall, then apparently tossed it and the hood latch in the scrap pile so it's MIA. If anyone's got a 56 hood latch assembly please give me a shout .

Before:



After:




In place:

 

Hey, the engine is "rebuilt" now

good work all around.

 

I finally got to see the caddys man it looks great..