I found this car when I bought some 940 front panels from a bloke about a month ago.
Amongst a bunch of interesting stuff, he had this ugly 1975 244DL. 
It’s a 4-speed manual K-jet car, never had AC or PS. Missing the interior, brake calipers and not much else.
I wasn’t particularly interested until he mentioned that it was going to be scrapped soon… this triggered my usual, knee jerk response of wanting to save it.
I took a couple of weeks to formulate a plan. I offered the owner about 150% of the scrap price and he was happy to accept it.
And then I went and picked it up yesterday.
A wash helped, but turds don’t polish easily, or well.
Overall, it structurally sound, but definitely not a good example. There’s some rust in most of the usual 240 spots: under the battery tray, front of the bonnet, blah blah. The only weird spot is a 10c sized hole in the driver’s side C-pillar.
My plan is to make a track worthy “rat-rod”, Spac style.
The plan is to spend as little money as possible to make it as fast as possible.
The rules I have set for myself are roughly:
Don’t worry about cosmetics unless it is cheap/easy;
It must still be safe enough for my family members to drive (no yolo nonsense);
Avoid replacing anything unless there’s a good reason to do so;
Try to use stuff that’s already in the shed;
Spend less than $1300 on it (based on the old Performance Forums 13s for $1300 challenge, but I won’t include value of existing shed treasures).
I want it to do a sub-60 lap at Pheasant Wood, but I don’t really care if it’s fun to drive and not dog slow.
First job was to bash out the driver’s door that was badly dented after the catch strap broke sometime in the past… 
After hole-sawing some access holes in the inner door body and lots of bashing , it came out semi-ok. The metal of the door skin is badly stretched, and spending more time/effort on making it look better is outside of the rules, so I am happy enough.
Today was mostly spent tinkering. Washed it with The Boy’s help, cleaned out the interior and the boot, stripped out the left-over brackets from the interior, removed some bits from the engine bay, blah blah.
The main thing I did was start the brake upgrade. Following Petey’s lead on his 240T rally car, the upgrade is 940 rotors and Mitsubishi twin piston calipers. 
The calipers I am using are actually from a Hyundai Terracan. I discovered them in the self-serve wrecker (RIP) and thought I had found a cheap source of early Evo Lancer calipers - they are VERY similar, but are not the same.
The location of the mounting bolt holes is different, and the pads are very slightly different. 
This made them useless for the Lancer they were purchased for, but they are no more difficult to adapt to the 244 so it made them the obvious choice.
The 940 rotors go straight on, after the stud holes are drilled out to 16mm to suit the 240 studs. 
Long story short… I made a prototype caliper bracket out of 10mm steel plate but guessed wrongly about the relative positions of the mounting holes so it’s not anything more than a template. 
The second one gave more meat around the bolt holes and is much better. I did everything by feel, so I was super pleased when the bolt holes line up perfectly regardless of how I orient the good bracket on the template. 
So yeah, pretty much done. 
I need to scrounge up more material to make a second one.
I have heaps of other things to do tomorrow, but am hoping to get the suspension sorted - with help from Jarrod N, I scored some 740/940 BC coil overs about a year ago - the rears look like they will go straight in, and the fronts appear to be an easy conversion… let me regret jinxing myself on that in 24 hours time!
