1962 Cadillac Hot Rod Coupe

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What it looks like now
She was pretty ugly!
Oxy acetylene and steel rod.
Crazy Cadillac weirdness!
The first bit that I finished. It took 4 summers to get the car on the road again.
Yikes!
More steel rod.
Second summer I bought a mig. Things started to go much faster.
The car was way worse than I thought it was but I kept plugging away.
Rebuilding a rear fender lip.
Testing the fender skirt's fit.
Rocker panel was caved in and filled with lead.
That's better.
Getting all the old paint off it.
Epoxy primer base
Primed.
Off to my buddy's for paint. A Garage rebuild get's a garage paint job!
Woohooo! It sat painted in a tempoary shelter outside my garage for the next year while I worked on the removable parts.
Front fender inner "eyebrow"
Outside front corner
Standard 60's GM weak spot
Driver's side inner splash guard was gone. Made the one on the left from scratch
This is where they go
Took all summer to put it together
The start of the intake manifold
Rolled in the lathe to make bell ends.
Injector bungs welded on.
Rolled plenum on and old hand crank x 2
Test fit on a junker in the scrap yard
first big change after 3 years of driving. Ford 4.6 throttle bodies and new linkage. Much better
Most recent change, 6-7 years ago?
Putting expansion boxes on the sides to get better air flow to the front and rear cylinders
Back from powder coating. The LS coils on the valve covers didn't happen.
What goes in must come out. Let's build headers!
The Caddy 390 is crambed into the engine bay really tightly between the control arms and the frame. Very little room. Had to do up before I could go down. Is that an ACDC song?
Fugly
Powder coated
cut some old heads apart so my buddy could see how to port them.
Manley Race Flow Stem Undercut custom made for the Caddy
Comp Bee Hives
Made a jig to hold the old Caddy diff
Ready for the 9"
Adapting Chevelle pedals to the Caddy
Novak Conversions pickle Fork and slave. TREMEC TKO 600R
Did the 5 speed and 9" in the second year of body work. Was sick of doing body work!
It was all worth it! There is so much more than shown here.
Oh yeah...
1962 Cadillac CTS   ;-)

Mods

Home built port injection manifold, headers, serpentine conversion, Ford 9" swap, 2 1/2" exhaust, Hydro-Boost conversion, 5 speed TREMEC TKO 600r, custom rear trailing arms with QA-1's. Ported heads with custom made Manley Race Flow - Stem undercut valves. Comp Bee Hive springs. Custom grind Howard's cam to my spec. Pontiac Bonneville front Rotors, Wilwood Calipers. Wilwood rear discs and proportioning valve. McLeod RST Twin Disc Clutch. Wilcap Flywheel. American Racing 17 x 8 wheels.

Build story

I bought this car in the spring of 1998. It was a parts car, all rusted out but with a good engine. Patched it up in Brandon Manitoba so I could drive it home to Calgary. Kind of bonded with it. Drove it for 7 years as a real head hanger but did fix it up mechanically. Built the fuel injection 1st version in 2003. By 2007 I had most of the bumper parts and bashed up or rusted out trim pieces collected. Took it off the road for 4 years and rebuilt the body and converted to a 5 speed plus the Ford 9". On the road again in 2011 painted and looking like a whole new car. I did all of the work except final paint. A buddy did that in his garage. 2 more revisions on the intake, headers and a new one off cam since then. On my third version of Megasquirt. MS3 Pro now.
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