My Cutlass
Last week I bought a 350 rocket motor for my Cutlass. Before I bought it, I heard it run. It sounded like a thunder when I crunk it up. Since I bought it from my cousin, he took the motor out of his car so I could take it home. Once he got it out the car, he needed some help loading it on the back of the truck , but he didn’t have a jack that could lift high enough.
It took five people to lift the motor; it was so heavy it felt like an anchor, but we finally got it on there. I went home and hooked the motor up to a jack to take it off the back of the truck. I was happy be out of that truck it smelled like oil and the seats were very dirty. I had to put paper down so I wouldn’t get anything on my clothes. I told my cousin, "Thanks for the help and I’ll talk to you later." Then he left and I started planning my next move.
My next move was taking out my motor that was already in my car, so I pulled my car around to the shop to start working on it. I unpluged some hoses and something shot into my right eye. I ran to the bathroom to rinse out my eye because it was burning a little and when I finished my eye was bleary, and I couldn’t see out of it for about ten minutes. Atfer I got my vision back, I started working on my car. I unhooked everything so the only thing left to do was to lift the motor out.
I lifted my motor out and was ready to drop the new one in. Once I got everything hooked up I was ready to crank it up, it still sounded like thunder. Then I started thinking, I am going to redo this whole car, so I drove it to a paint shop to get a price on how much candy paint was. When I was down there, I saw a Monte Carlo with flip-flop candy paint and I decided I wanted that.
After two weeks I saved up enough money for my paint job. I took my car back to the paint shop for spraying. The paint was eight hundred and the painter charge me five hundred to paint it. So I left my car down there and the painter told me " It will be about a week before I will be done with everything". I said "That’s fine call me when your done painting it".
While my car was in the paint shop, I went looking for a new transmission. I called my friend because he knows where many of motors and transmissions would be for sale. We went to this junkyard. It was so nasty there, that if you opened your mouth it would leave an awful taste. So we didn’t find what I was looking for there, so we went to Pep Boys to order one.
The worker at Pep Boys said "We only have a 403 for a Oldsmobile Cutlass" I told him "That’s fine I’ll take it" they had to order the transmission and told me it will be 4 days. So I had everything I wanted for my car. I couldn’t wait and see what my car was going to look like. I wanted to go look at some rims, but every place I went was real expensive so I decided I was going to keep my rallys on it for a while.
A week has passed, and I have gotten my transmission so it was time for me to go pick up my car. When I got there my car was sitting in the front. I didn’t realize that it was my car. If you walked around the car it would flip green to blue all the away around the car. The paint was real shiny and had flakes all through the car. I told the painter "This really looks nice". I drove my car home but it still wasn’t ready to show anyone.
I pulled my car in the shop and began putting in the new transmission. It took me two hours to get it in. Once I was done, I drove it around the block for a test drive. My car was so fast I almost lost it coming off my street. but I gained control and drove over to my friend’s house to show him.