The interior is in remarkable condition. The drivers seat bottom was one of the few things that needed attention and fortunately for me – the one thing the Coles had sorted! They acquired an original used 63 back seat cover in ‘as new’ condition and had their upholstery guy use that to refit to the front seat bottoms!

I need to apologize that I stopped with my story and restoration. Having been in Florida for the winter kind of keeps you occupied elsewhere. Recently we got back from Florida and started tinkering with things TRF filter stencil, trim restoration as you know.

Suffice to say we got the car home safely, no trouble at the border – Exporting from…[Read more]

My letters are good. The letters have a “wave” shape on the pegs that go in the metal slots.

Oaklyss, thanks for the info on the F85 logo too as that has ‘no’ red left in and it is coming off next!. As for the trunk letters, do yours seem good and solid still or did you add a bit of ‘something’ to ensure they don’t fall off now?

I ended up using two generators to restore my original. My original one was beat up really bad with lots of broken parts. I decided to use another Jetfire generator and use all the guts out of it so I could keep my original date coded tag and case. I had thought that even the case with the tag was junk but then looked a little closer and decided…[Read more]

When comparing a repainted part to my wife’s original paint car it looks like a good match. I got a color sample from Kolor Korect and my body guy also matched it to an original chip. Both come up with this exact color. Supposedly the original paint had this much metallic in it but you can’t hardly see it now without looking really close. Her car…[Read more]

The trunk letters are just pressed into the metal and come off fairly easy if you spray WD40 on them

The rear F85 emblem has that red translucent paint

I never saw red paint there. Mine look to be silver.

I had a 57 Olds Fiesta wagon which I purchased from a guy in Toronto Ontario. The car was original except for the roof had been re-painted. He had loaned it out a number of times for commercials & movies back in the 80’s and some European candy company rented it and there were fashion models who stood on the roof in stiletto heals and put little…[Read more]

Hey ’63’ owners. So I taken off my side emblems to clean everything up there was so much gunk around there. Anyhow lots of scrubbing, cleaning, polishing. Now that the goop and wax is all out of there, and upon closer look there appears to have been Red on the outside of that turbine. Does any of yours actually have red in them? What was left…[Read more]

I went out to the body guys house today and put a temporary rear end and front end in the car just to get it home. I felt bad putting nasty used suspension on the car even though it is only to transport it home. I will not bring the shell home till later this week or Saturday. I have to figure out where to put the hood and fenders because I will…[Read more]

I have been scrubbing and organizing the garage last weekend and all week. I have to much junk! Today I scrubbed the floors really good. Tomorrow morning I have a little more to do and it will be ready for the car to come home. The garage has not been this clean since I started putting my W-30 together in 2014.

I am going to the body guys house…[Read more]

Here’s my new carpet from Stock Interiors.
Drop shipped from ACC at about 1/2 the price of a direct ACC purchase!

Oops, some of that already covered.

Summit shows an application for the 62 Cutlass, #936. Picture is “not representative”. I think that’s where I got it and if memory serves that is the number. I looked for my receipt but can’t find it. I would think a skylark or special application would fit but can’t see how a tempest application would fit as it has a transaxle-completely…[Read more]

Awesome Sandy!!!

graytoad, I have not installed mine yet. I have attempted but as 62cutlassconvert said, the plates to mount are not as desired.
Also, you are correct that the kit says for 63 Tempest and not skylark/cutlass….but it can work.
Quick google search shows you plate modification/design that would work.

Well Done!!!

Spent most of the day cleaning up the garage getting ready to bring the body home. Decided to take a brake and disassemble the generator. This is not the original generator but it is a 62 Jetfire generator. I don’t know what the difference is but the Jetfire generator is specific to the Jetfire. This one does not have the correct pulley on it but…[Read more]