This is my 74 Olds 442. I've been working on this car now for five years after an incounter with a deer at 80 mph!! Replaced the hood and drivers fender after searching for three years along with the head light bezels and plastic buckets (Not easy to find for this car).

It has a 350 now

but my next update is a 455 with dual quads and a 200-R4.
Or I could use this smoking 450hp 383 Chevy motor that came out of my trike in the above pic!?!?

I just got it back yesterday from the paint shop. Was wanting that Hurst Olds look, without making it look like a Hurst Olds. I think that I found it............

Around the rear glass and quarter windows, we cleaned all the junk from these areas and lined it with spray in bed liner material to add extra protection from water and trash that collects and aids in rust.

New update..............!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've been working on putting the parts back on slowly.
I could not get this gap to close because the paint would peal off or seperate. For you guys fixing to paint these type fillers, heres some tips that I learned as and after I did mine. Take them off the car and sand blast them as I did, it's soft enough that the sand will bounce off and not gouge. BEFORE you prime them and paint them, take them and heat them up so they are flemsy and soft with really hot water or a torch. I used both depending on the piece and how hard it was. Strech them back to there correct shape while they are hot and find some way to hold them in that position and cool them with water. You will need to find a way to keep them this shape on your car as well. Once you have reshaped them, you will need to paint them and get them back on to the car ASAP as they will try to shrink in a few hours, (it took them 30 plus years to shrink and they'll want to get back to that shape again unless they are retrained.) I did this on all the fillers except the one across the trunk (thats why theres a gap here) and it worked great. You better go slow and not pull the filler apart.

I redid the grill in a silver finish to give it that "Go Fast Look"

and I took the bottom half of front bumper and moved it back 3" so the car does't have that over bite look any more. It would have taken too much for me to have made roll pans, and this was the next best thing.

I'm still working on the grills to clean them up a bit more.
Next will be the vynile top and on to the interior