Danno's 87 Regal (The white bastard)

[Danno]

This is my work in progress at the moment. It's a 1987 Buick Regal with a 3.8L carbureted non-turbo. I bought it in January and it sat in storage until april when I started to work on it. It needs some body work due to some rust spots but nothing major. A previous owner put t type badging on the car along with t-type rims, trim, and steering wheel but it is NOT a t-type. The plan is to put something a little bigger under the hood to gain some more power. Enough talk, here are some pictures:

As you can see, I have a pretty ghetto hood prop at the moment. I put a brand new optima battery in it and took the front bumper fillers out (they were all cracked) and removed some stupid looking fog lights that were on the car:

http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/1735/052309113000.jpg

The headliner was sagging majorly and taking it down the road once to the car wash was enough to make me rip it out.

http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/7550/052309113002.jpg

After ripping it out I noticed a bunch of rust starting from moisture in the headliner so I decided to clean it up and paint it flat black to keep it from spreading and eventually rusting through (no pictures of painted roof yet).

http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/9154/052309114800.jpg

The shocks were toast and the car didn't like highway speeds so some KYB Gas-A-Just's replaced the old stock ones:

http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/7158/kybfronts.jpg

http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/7880/kybrear2.jpg

Here are some rust spots that need to be sanded down and/or patched:

http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/3057/whip6s.jpg

http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/4382/whip12.jpg

http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/3754/whip13.jpg

The rear wheel wells need to be patched aswell as there are small holes in them.

http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/5344/whip27.jpg

and just for the hell of it, another picture of the car:

http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/3568/whip19.jpg

[Edit] Sorry for size, no picture resize here I guess.

[Edit x2] Images resized.

[Danno]

Reserved.......

[Danno]

Reserved........

[thestereogod]

Find yourself a 3.8t and stick that puppy in there, you got the badges already the hardpart is over!!

[Danno]

Still doesn't have the hood. And I already bought an engine block.

[Edit] Block is stripped minus cam bearings. Then off to the machine shop it goes. :)

[notorious170]

thats a great car for many different styles...drag, show, street, hopper (personal favorite)...what you got in mind?

[acezhigh24]

I've always been a fan of these... I've seen some great end products come out of the Regals... Keep us posted on the updates!