Customs Sight unseen ‘54 Olds Tex-SoDak trip

So was it vapor lock, or crud in the tank or? Lol, I gotta know!

And very nice car as well.

 

ha! I never did say huh. So the old boy put a new tank in it, some how it must have gotten some moisture in it, and corroded. Had 3 fuel filters, All of them were plugged up. I only knew about one until I got it home. But I think I was boiling what little gas was getting through. Finally it is starting to clear up.

 

TI....I mean freakin' cool!!

 

Great story! She will remember that trip her whole life. The colors are quite fitting! Nice car.

 

Nice story!!! Most 13 yr old kids don’t want to drive to the convenience store to get milk with their parents.

 

So cool!!!

 

Good times .

 

Great looking car, style never gets old. Olds rockets ahead!

 

Just as a tidbit of trivia........ When Ray Brock took "Suddenly" the '57 Plymouth Savoy with the 400" Hemi to Daytona in '57, he flat tow'd it there with his mother's '54 Olds.... No problems, from LA to FLA and back.

 

I enjoyed that, thank you for letting me ride along.

 

20+MPG does not sound too bad, 2 or 4 barrel intake?

 

edelbroken 4bbl

 

I was having deja vu, you posted it on FB? Right?

 

Yes, A bit delayed getting it on here. Ha

 

Great road trip! I’m assuming the Wife is Happy, what did your Girl think of the trip?

 

Both of the ladies were very happy. My daughter and I had an awesome time.
Actually looking at doing something quite similar with a 63 c-10 outside of Salina. She is excited to tag along again.

 

That's a Big Plus! Safe travels on the next adventure, Carp.

 

Bored on New Year's Day and thought I'd give an update on the '54. I have since pulled the transmission and had it rebuilt, still needs some tuning but is really not a worry anymore. (It wasn't shifting out of low) found the seals were original and rock hard. Pulled the driveline and had the fellas at work balance it and throw some new joints in it.
Replaced the front king pins, lost a rear wheel bearing on a cruise through Custer State Park. Had a few small things, like radiator, and heater hoses start leaking so I replaced them.

 

We tried selling it for most of the summer as I got bored with it. No real action on it, so I decided to start finally making it "ours". I stumbled on John Vincent's '54 olds and really dig the look. Will do a few things to kind of emulate that car.
I ordered a set of 3.5" wide whites, cleaned up the wheels painted them black and added a gold wheel lip. I cut the stock lip off the fender skirts and added to them to make full fender length skirts. At last years swap meet I found a set of '51 Stude caps that I will run. Really hoping to stumble on an affordable set of premier caps. I lowered the rear another inch, new shocks, away bar bushings, and rebuilt both brakes and lines.

 

Also working on replacing most of the steering parts and/or "rebuilding" them. Front shocks are super worn but are $800 to replace. Not sure what my plans are there. I am in the market for some Cadillac dagmars if anyone can help out there. Ordered several colors of acrylic sheet, to make some custom switch and knob covers, we will see how that works. Will get some pinstriping done this summer hopefully

 

Looking forward to seeing the updates! Skirts look great

 

How much has the girl driven it? She should be learning how to drive in that car.

 

Got a room for the ROC. Excited to drive it back south. Maybe catch up with you down there.

 

Ha. She is pretty spooked on driving so far. Not sure momma would let her drive this one.

 

Sounds like we should see this at the Roc. I’ll plan to check it out there.

 

I'll be there this year in my 54 Olds Coupe, finally dedicated to making the weekend work with my schedule.

 

$800? Is that the price for rebuilding yours? Did you check applehydraulics.com?

 

That is rebuilding mine through apple. $400 a side unfortunately

 

Momma can’t protest if momma don’t know!
Just take her out and then fake a heart attack and tell her she has to drive. After she slides behind the wheel at 30 mph level with her and tell her you were faking and she is doing great with her first lesson.