That is what mine looked like till I messed them up. I was not going to paint them at all but made the wrong choice. Now I have to redo them. I think I have three others somewhere.

The body guy just sent me a picture. Looks like he is making headway.

Some other parts I have ready. Just noticed I put the clips on the TRF bottle holder upside down, lol. Now I will have scratches in the paint taking them off. The color of the clips were a red oxide color and I want to repaint those anyway.

License plate light is done and ready to go back on. Yellow zinc plated and the screws were clear zinc.

Lots more hardware clear zinc plated. The 4 speed inspection cover turned out much better than I expected. It leeks better in person than in the picture. It almost looks silver in the picture but it is clear zinc. I also had the oil fill cap zinc plated. The top is the only side that gets painted and wanted the bottom side to have the correct zinc…[Read more]

Just talked to the body guy. He is having problems with it now. He has several hours in getting the paint to match correct but says he finely got it. He said that he sprayed some parts and something went wrong and turned out terrible. This is the first painting he has done since the old shop burned down. He said he is adjusting to the new booth…[Read more]

My wife and I have seen that before when we stayed at one. It has to be 61 or 62 because the 63 says transistor radio on it. We have had good experiences at all the Hampton Inn’s we have stayed at.

The radio looked really good to start with. The worst part of the front was the lens was foggy. It don’t look that bad in the before picture but it was in person. Turned out that the worst part of the fog was on the inside. The chrome was real nice and I just polished it up. Other than that I just cleaned all the dust off the case and from the inside.

Radio and speaker are done and ready to install.

I told him that since I can’t hear the engine run like he said and since he does not have a title like he said I would give him $1700 and not a penny more. He said no. I told him to let me know when he don’t get any other offers.

As far as windshield moldings, are you talking about exterior? I believe I have good ones. Would need polished but I…[Read more]

HAHAHAHA!!!!!! He just contacted me. Here is his quote. “So what will you pay.but no to 1500”

About 3 minutes before the auction ended I sent him a message on Facebook that I would give him $1500 for the car when the buyer don’t pan out, lol. He replied no thanks. I told him he should have taken the $3K I was going to pay him. I am sure he is kicking himself now. I could be wrong but I believe the last real bid was either $1725 or $1350.…[Read more]

And to add to what Joe said, Many people knew that CarQuest filters were Wix but they are not any more. Car Quest was bought out by Advance auto parts and kept the name but changed the parts.

Had some more time so I took the radio apart and cleaned it up. I did not touch the circuits because it works good. Some of the vintage tube radio people say it is best to fix these before broken but I am going to leave it alone other than detail it inside and out. The speaker also works good. The top side has faded but the back side looks like…[Read more]

I have a box full of vintage PF-30s

This PF7 looks like the one on the dyno.

I decided to do some simple things while taking care of my wife. I pulled the clock out of the cluster and fixed it. I tested the electronics first and they worked good. I then put the smallest touch of clock oil on the shafts and it started working great. I cleaned the contacts while I was there. Also polished the lens for the cluster and tested…[Read more]

That is cool about the battery decal. The 63 barn car I got out of Iowa had a decal there that was painted over. I took lots of time to try and remove the paint to see what the decal was but I just couldn’t get to a point I could see it. I never looked in the assembly manual.

I will get a picture of both washer tanks Sandy. Yours could be a 63…[Read more]