[Mwieczorek]

Originally Posted by HWYSTR455

I wasn't being sarcastic, or trying to be rude, I truly was asking if that was a legitimate setup that guy is selling, and if it was a correct setup.

Excellent to have hard core GM engineers on here, a big welcome to you!

Wonder if there's a way to cross ref the center housing part numbers? Do a comparison? Even mechanical drawings would be a good start? Trying to think outside the box here.

I am interested, like I said, I'm almost ready to go through this with my own car, once I finish moving, and purchase one, am starting to keep an eye out now for a project candidate.

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Oh, I didn't take it as sarcasm at all!

I might be a "wee bit" sensitive because I spent a couple months last fall trying to figure out how to shoehorn a 9" or a GM 12 bolt under the car and gave up.

Sadly, finding prints for cars that we made 55 years ago is not an easy task. That was all back in the day when each division had its own engineering staff in a different part of town. Cadillac was downtown, Oldsmobile was in Lansing, Buick was in Flint, Pontiac was in Pontiac, etc... Everything got condensed down to the Warren Technical Center a while back, but I have no idea where the archives are and I suspect a lot of that stuff was lost in the big flood of 2014.

If you want to see my suspension handiwork, look under one of our HD pickups. I was the lead suspension and structure design/release engineer on that program. Now I'm the corporate technical specialist for chassis elastomers, so I write technical requirements and give questionable advice to the other engineers.

You're gonna hate this, but I had a 66 Catalina convertible and I just sold it a month ago. I needed the space because I bought a 67 GTO and needed to "thin the herd". The Cat was a nice cruiser! All I can say is find one with a nice, solid body with no missing parts. The only parts you can get for a B body are parts that are common to an A body or other GM B body. Floor pans, quarter panels, fenders, many trim pieces etc are not reproduced, so you are pulling them off donor cars or fabbing it yourself.