So, time flies.
Long story short, spent a lot of time on the shop and the Impala and finally made the decision to scrap the 242 (insert dramatic sound effect).
It's been in my head quite a while, but I wanted to keep the car because of sentimental reasons and the fact you dont see these eraly (or any) 242s a lot over here.
But, it's soo rusty and I decided I dont want to spend my time anymore restoring parts of the car which will ultimately look like they havent been touched at all.
Some rust repairs are fine, but the floor pan, rockers, front chassis, core support, window frames etc, pretty much everything would need a lot of work to get it back to a solid base.
I've always been a wagon guy and even though you see 245s pretty much every day still around here I started looking for one.
Of course it has some rust and probably needs a lot work work than I account for right now but thats accounted as well
It's an '84 (which will become tax exempt in 3 yrs, one of the reasons to buy this one) and has LPG registration which I like.
It looked like horse**** when I bought it mainly because it was sort of covered in dusty horse****. Also smelled like it.
Steam cleaned it and it came out nice, rear wheel arches are rusty, weird spot at the left rear window and some bad patching on the rockers but the floor pan looks solid.
Plan with the 242 already was to use front fenders for rear arches, and I have some new rockers as well so I think I'll put those in anyway to keep rust out of there definitively.
Doors are a bit rusty as well so I'll replace them as well.
Also bought a set of quad squares, not sure if i'm going coffin or flat hood yet.
I also bought a BMW E39 touring rear axle so if it all works out with the RDW (DMV) the plan is to put that in as well.
So this is kind of a teaser since I havent started working on it yet, but it's some progress again
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