I will send you an email and some pictures. Can you tell us more about your car? Is it 62 or 63? Would love to see pictures of it. How long have you had it? Sounds like you have been into the model for a while.

Man, I wish I would have found you guys years ago!

I would gladly pay $55 for that!! here is my email, send me some info on what we need to do to get it done.
62ragtop@sbcglobal.net (and the email name is from my VW, not my Jetfire… lol)

thanks again!
Scott

I cut out new splash shields for the car. Two of the originals are still nice and soft. I may just clean those and reuse them. Either way. I have new ones now if I need them

I agree with Eric on the leather style accelerator pump whether for the Jetfire carb or 4 barrel Cutlasss carb. Way better than the rubber replacement. It recovers well after longer periods of storage when the carb. is primed properly compared to the rubber version. Worth the extra $$.

Are you needing it for the Jetfire carburetor I assume? If so, I have some that are NOS from another model that I modify and work perfect in our cars. These are old NOS stock and are the good leather style. With me buying it and the time of modifying it I would need $55 shipped for it. I know it is expensive but I have time and money invested…[Read more]

Spend some time looking at the engine builds at britishv8.com. The Buick 300 crank is the usual way to go, but put that in a Rover block with Chevy 305 pistons and you get about a 298. The late Rover 4.6 blocks have cross-bolted mains.

Okay, thanks. I’ll check it out. I did the Google search and it pulled up a lot of sources. I thought I’d ask here if anyone had any success so I could narrow it down. Thanks again for your help.

Restoration Specialites has the clips for the trim across the nose of the hood, as well as lots of other stuff. There are a few sizes of that same clip design so have yours handy.to measure. They are the exact same clip.
You can download their catalog here: restorationspecialities.com.

There’s another one in New York I think that is a…[Read more]

The manual choke was a factory installed item on the 4 speed manual shift cars.

The car was built in the third week of January 1963 at the South Gate California plant and sold by Davis Motors in Sonora California on July 17, 1963 to Salvadore and Madelaine Mier of Tuolumne California. The Cole’s rescued the car from the drive in shed on their…[Read more]

They need to see the bottom side pictures after you cleaned it. This car is incredible guys!

Thanks for posting Sandy. Do you know what city the car was found in? What dealer was it originally purchased from when new?

Awesome! That is a great find Sandy. Do you plan to keep it or sell it off when you’re complete? Also, is that an aftermarket manual choke control I see in the photo of the heater controls? Please keep the thread going with photos as you proceed.

Being that I am from that era (I was a little kid in 63) . . . Yes, it was very commonly done for two reasons. Mostly for folks who lived on dirt roads to help protect the rad from possible punctures from rocks kicked up by passing cars. People also did this to help keep bugs from getting imbedded in the rad fins which are hard to get out – a…[Read more]

That is the 3rd 63 that I have seen that had that mesh wired onto the radiator. The 4 speed 63 I drug out of the barn in Iowa had the same material on it. I wonder if this was an era thing that people did or if it is something Oldsmobile was doing. I know it is not from the factory this way strange how three of these cars I know of were found like…[Read more]

I intend to remove the emblems to clean things up properly. Thanks for the heads up on the sealer Eric.

So, to continue with my story: Imagine my surprise – less than 2 months following our ‘discovering’ the existence of the Jetfires and thinking I would love to ‘someday’ be lucky enough to find one – one pops up on an Oldsmobile Buy & Sell…[Read more]

You will likely find that you need to remove the emblems to get it really clean in that spot. The factory used a sealer around the emblem and trim holes to keep water out of the trunk. After all these years I find that it has oozed out from under the emblem. I pull them out and clean them up and use new sealer on all the studs. Not sure what the…[Read more]