Intermediate Pipe

Although I have much more grand ideas for the exhaust system on the '77 Cutlass Supreme, I felt it was important to spend the $18 for a new intermediate pipe to hold me over until they come to light. Apparently whoever last had exhaust work done to the car only had the muffler and tailpipe replaced, leaving the intermediate pipe to rot away. The back pressure was fantastic and stop and go city driving became a lightheaded adventure at times when there wasn't a breeze.

See those red circles on the old rusty intermediate pipe? Each one of those is highlighting a hole. The most impressive one by far would be the one second from the right. This spot had rotted through, had a patch made out of a piece of another exhaust pipe welded over it, rotted through again, filled with muffler mud, had a piece of aluminum bent around it, and had a piece of strapping around it to hold it all together. To think that someone would spend that much time and effort on such an easily replaceable piece of the car boggles the mind, but at the same time makes me happy because old cars wouldn't be around period if people just gave up and didn't save what was thought to be unsaveable.