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Originally Posted by Mwieczorek

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.

You're right, gonna hate that! Heheh! And mental note on parts, uhg. I guess that's why nice ones aren't cheap.

The 'big flood', dang. I can only imagine what went up in smoke from that. Well, I suspect at least someone has either reverse engineered it, or have copies. Those guys in AU might be a good source, plenty down under are doing 50s & 60s cars there, sure someone has some info. That's why I was thinking those archive links might help.

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