Delta Force79

ocn, I know it sucks...I never thought it would be possible to restore this thing and have it be road worthy...I was hoping they would clean the body and engine, interior a smuch as possible to be photographed and to show what nature can do to a brand new car sealed under ground...as well as for the fact that despite all the rust and mud...she's still beautiful.

Well good luck with it

d'oh should have looked at the sig...well for the money you'd spend (assuming from the sale of this car) to buy something else...I would suggest saving that money in another way and fix up the Buick. If it has less than 15K on it, why not restore it little by little?

WHat year is this beast? I'd suggest doing the work....that car would be one mean looking ride fixed up. The condition it' sin right now, I doubt you'd get 7 grand for it.

no prob, take your time...

I'd need to see some more pics of it before I could determine the extent of the work needed.

Thats a pretyt bad pic, have any clearer ones? Als you didn't mention the rust....where in NY are you?

That's it? and you want to sell it because of dents?

What kind of body work are we talking about here?

Plus I think this one is above ground.

IDK Fly, I think it's kinda cool....I hope I'm around in 2048 to see if this car looks mint or like $h! too

Aren't Prowler's fiberglass, or carbon fiber?

This is a message from user Mike P on the Forward look forum... I saw the car today. Anything can be restored, but in this case I'm afraid all that would be left would the stainless, set of glass (with the exception of the vent window Boyd's crew broke getting into the car) and the stainless steel VIN tag. As I walked around the car, the driver door is rusted through, there is bubbling on every panel, and while the chrome looks shiny on the outer surface these often rust from the inside out (there is usually very little chrome on the back side). One of the rear leaf springs fell off when the car was raised and from what I could tell from looking at the mirror they had under the car the U Bolts had simply rusted away. I get a feeling the frame is probably pretty thin. Anything like heavy steel brackets look like they will be VERY heavily pitted if even usable at all. I don't know if anybody noticed last night at the unveiling but the inner trunk reinforcements (or what was left of them) literally fell off into the trunk. I think on close inspection any exterior panel you will find are too thin to be usable. Possibly the major engine castings could be reused, but after all this time I'd almost bet you end up with 8 sleeves. The tranny and rear end maybe the housings.....buy maybe not. A few days ago I would have been the first say restore it, but on closer inspection I believe there would be so little of the original car left that it would be a travesty to do so. At this point personally I would really like seeing the car preserved in it's as is condition (after steps are taken to preserve it from further decay). And who know that may be what happens. I'm hearing rumblings that both the W. P. Chrysler Museum and 57 Heaven are both interested in buying the car once it's determined who owns it. Before and after:

I hope they announce a winner next week, cause I'm hope they would try to clena it off. If it goes to a museum they forget it, it'll remain the muddy rusty exhibit

What motors do you have in them?

There has been quite a few profile shots of the car where the Gold color can be seen under the crud....why not give it a good rinse or maybe an industrial size steam cleaner and try to get as much off without touching the car for fear of damaging the metal or paint. I'd probably opt for the steam clean method myself.

I saw some photos of it from the car show....they haven't cleaned it and I'm hearing they are going to leave it dirty

thats the closest I could find to a raising my hand smiley

Well if you're born in June, you were concieved in September

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sorry to hear it

heh...so was I

I've been watching on oklatravel.net but they haven't shown the car today

We may not get a winner, apparently the microfilm is gone, the case that contained it was found inside the car and the case was rusted through. The Belvedere is at the Tulsa car show right now,