Another old project (non 914), I'm blown away by East coaster's Caddy conversion Options

[barefoot]

Just went thru East Coasters thread on Yukon/Caddy graft remind me of a very old project of mine started in 1960, yea I'm that old !
My first car in HS was a 40 Ford coupe with the Olds Rocket 88 motor conversion.
I drove that in High School until I got tired of blowing ford transmissions, even blew one trying to get unstuck from a snowdrift! Thank god old tranny's were plentiful in the bone yard. Got pretty good at those replacements working on the dirt floor of Dad's garage.

That had to change, so sourced a LaSalle tranny and a Pontiac rear end and started the conversion. Had to adapt to longitudinal rear springs rather than the old Ford transverse kit. I din't have a fancy lift like East Coaster has & can't remember how I got the body off must have been some HS buddies. But that made the conversion work much easier. Just had stick & Oxy/acetylene touch for welding, no TIG or MIG.
Tools then were dad's Craftsman 1/2 drill & angle grinder. Thats when Craftsman made REAL tools. I fabed up the headers and planned on a cap for street driving. I'd sourced Corvair turbo mufflers (2.5" diameter tubing)
College & work got in the way of finishing this, just needed driveshaft & shift linkage as I recall so it went off to a buddy to finish. Oh well, it kept my creative juices flowing for a while.

Barefoot

[Root_Werks]

Those old coupes, man they just look sweet.