Projects A Vision Again...Odd Duck Coupe The Sickness Continues

Thanks Dennis, yeah now I have to keep an eye out besides shorter red tail light lenses, Now a speedo and combo gas/ oil / temp round gage.

Dummy me forgot to measure the whole sizes in the dash. I’ll have to add that to the list when I get back down there.

 

Thanks for the suggestion. Certainly an option if the diameter of the lenses will fit.

 

Cool …. Custom grille.

 

Charger or Polara - I think you are right.

 

Brand new gas tank.
Notice the trunk tail floor above the gas tank is super solid.

 

Measured the dash 2 main gage openings diameter.
12” totally across the 2 holes with 1” separating the 2 holes.
So, now the hunt begins to find to fill (2) 5- 1/2” openings Speedo and Supporting Gages.

 

Drivers rocker rock solid above the running board. Amazing.
THE ONLY ( break through ) RUST SPOT ON THE ENTIRE CAR WAS THE P***ENGER ROCKER THAT’S IT ! Never have I seen a 87 year old car this rust free. Yes, there’s surface rust- I meant break through rust.
This is the rock solid drivers door sill plate rocker above the running board (1st pic) and the p***enger rocker ( Only breakthrough rust in the entire car) between the door and running board (2nd pic). Again, truly amazing.

 

Not yet. Still sorting it out.
Has a few spark plug wires I need the short boot them as the longer boot is up against the manifold.
I put new plugs in and runs a lot smoother as the others were carboned up and worn.
Has no exhaust from the manifolds back so louder than hell.
New exhaust on the list and putting on my NOS in the box Smithy’s mufflers from 30-40 years ago.

 

Thanks fellas.
1 official day to go.
Corporate Exit Interview tomorrow.
Wash and Vacuum the car to return.
Lap Tops, phone etc etc.
Seems like taking forever.

 

Those were the days….

 

How about some natural aged gl*** art

 

Well not to forget the 38 D8 Coupe and be distracted with the Barracuda, plans are removing the 59 Cadillac tail lights in the D8 Monday since it’s suppose to be 60 degrees, which will give my shop heater a break and actually open the shop doors to get some fresh air.

This retirement stuff now is pick a project day.
It’s taking me awhile to get out of Corporate America mindset.
Doing that for almost 50 years, I can honestly say it’s taking a while in my head to get reprogrammed to just do what I want to do, versus what I required / Clients to do in Corporate America. Kinda crazy actually.

Still planning on spring time putting new exhaust on the 38.
Right now it’s open exhaust manifold, just too noisy.
As I mentioned, I’m looking forward to putting on my NOS 35 year-old Smitty’s mufflers on.

Will update as I go along.

 

So the drivers window crank would just spin around doing nothing to lower the window.
Unscrewed the window mechanism to at least be able to knock everything downward to get the window down. I’m still tinkering to see if I can get the whole mechanism out but it’s not being cooperative. When I was working, I’d have to get it then go back to work. So many projects never finished.

Now being retired, eh’, got it down, done fighting it today.
Will do some more research to see an easier way removing the mechanism and gl*** together.
It’s taking me a while to get use to retiring.
I’d always HAVE to get it done to get back to work.

The p***enger side rolls up and down.
Just need to Kroil the joints.

Now, from the drivers side in the mean time….fresh air rain or shine.

 

the window and the regulator come out separately. you have to push the part the window crank goes on inside the door and then slide the wheels out of the lower track. slide to the rear until the wheel is past the track, then lower that wheel so it goes below the track and slide forward until the front wheel is clear. then you can fish the regulator out and then the window. In order to remove the window (if you need to) you will have to remove the run channel at the rear and either loosen or remove the wing window ***embly. But if the regulator is the only problem then the gl*** can just stay in the door....

 

that one opens the door