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Very nice job Bruce! It’s exciting watching these cars go back together. Especially a 4-speed Jetfire! Can’t wait to see it finished.

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High quality paint and body work is not cheap. My car was completed in 2009 and my body guy was a good friend that said it was worth about $10K at the time. I got off for significantly less since he was a friend. With inflation your cost is probably not too bad. Alas, my friend passed away around 6 years ago from a rare kidney disease.

I can’t remember if I restitched the headliner with the bows in or not. It’s been more than 10 years ago and my memory is getting worse every day. I did take the bows out to remove rust from them and repaint. The headliner and bows had been sitting in the basement for a few years before I was able to restore it. You are moving much more quickly with your resto. I spread mine out over 17 years while trying to raise a family and get funding. I can’t wait to see yours finished. Will you be putting similar wide whitewall tires on it like the 1962 picture of it on the Facebook page?

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You might want to consider restitching it. I reused my headliner because the pattern on the replacement material that SMS and others have doesn’t match the original pattern. My stitching showed signs of deterioration. I left it in place and hand restitched at all the bows using 10 lb. monofilament fishing line. I had to do a lot of stretching to get mine to fit again. It was difficult even when using a hair dryer to warm up the material. With all of the tugging I had to do I think the original stitches would have torn. Mine had some rust stains that I couldn’t remove so I ended up spraying it with just enough coats of vinyl dye (paint) to have even color but not too many coats so that the pattern showed through well. The coating I used was made by SEM, Super White #15103 and it matched very closely to the cleaned up original. I did this in 2009 and it still looks good today.

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There was also a Cutlass jet aircraft that the Navy used as well as an xF-85 Goblin parasite jet aircraft that was launched from a B-29.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_XF-85_Goblin

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Nice job on the radio! Coincidentally, I recently stayed at a Hampton Inn Hotel on business and their artwork program consisted of black and white travel related photos. The room I stayed in had a room number sign with a photo of the F-85 radio on it. I just had to photograph it.

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I believe it is AC #PF-24. There was no Delco on it. I did my research over 10 years ago for my Cutlass and don’t know if the Cutlass used the same oil filter as the Jetfire. You can get a repro sticker on ebay:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/GM-AC-Delco-PF-24-Engine-Oil-Filter-Decal-Sticker-Buick-Chevy-Olds-Pontiac-NOS-/272096207997

I got a white painted filter from WIX. To get the markings off I used rubbing alcohol and some elbow grease which took the markings off without damaging the baked on white paint. Then put the decal on it. However, it does not look like either of the photos Eric posted. I’ve been using this on my car in the absence of any factory or magazine article photos from the period.

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Jim Noel sur ce site Web a la pleine capacité de restaurer le système de turbocompresseur complet.

For everyone’s information here is the English translation to this new member’s question: “Hello new on this forum I have a turbo jetfire that we are restoring and I would like to know if someone among you restores the complete turbo system thank you good day” For my French reply I used Google Translate to provide an answer which translated to English is “Jim Noel on this website has the full capability to restore the complete turbocharger system.” Jim, do you speak French?

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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 $$.

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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.

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Eric,
You’re right about family first. Best wishes to your wife. The car will always be there and deadlines aren’t always worth chasing. Happy Thanksgiving and well wishes to everyone!

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