Technical What are you working on?

Lane, if you can’t make it to LF-3, I understand, but, it would be great to meet you if you can come. You would surely get the long distance award!!

 

My second car was the first '64 Barracuda sold in Kansas City, white with a gold interior 273 two-barrel. I bought it from the original owner, a retired truck mechanic who lived cattycorner from our backyard. He had helped me do repairs and maintenance on my first car, a '29 Model A standard coupe. One day he traded in the Bbarracuda to Sites Bros. Chrysler/Plymouth for a '68 Satellite but knowing that I'd always cherished his Barracuda, he called my mom to tell my parents and me that he had just gotten $900 for it and figured that if we wanted it, Sites Bros. would sell it to me at that price. My parents offered to lend me the money until I graduated from college and had a job, then I must pay them back. We were at Sites Bros. within 30 minutes of my dad arriving home. I was driving the Barracuda 30 minutes later. Wish I still had both cars now.

 

@atch
If you're still coming in October, it's 7 miles from my house.

 

Always something,but an odd little deal this time!
The lower door hinge screws got sloopy n then came out
My rod is 28A Roadster,and with the mods made to lower part of body{lower 3in. part was removed back in 1959
{ rusty with holes,so as a teen,I cut off the holes and folded about a 1 in. under to give the bottom a bit of finish.
I then had to weld some of lower body bracing=witch made the lower door hinge screws pretty hard to get too.
Vibs over the years made them back off { and a few times,I got too them before the nuts fell off.
This time I got lazy about doing anything for too long=nut fell too who knows,and when I opened the drivers door,it was hanging off only the top hinge.
There's no way to get your finger or plyers up inside the body bracing were the hinge nuts go.
Had make a jerry-rig of 1/8 soft copper wire,around a 1/4" locknut,and glue nut into the loop,so it also had a handel about 6 in. long. Bent that tell the nut got in place and I could at the same time twist phillips tell the nut started {took a far number of trys,for each.
Went around too each hinge and made sure all snug again.
Back in 1959,I had given a passing thought to welding doors closed,but it passed by pretty fast,even though in would of been fast way. Happy I made them work,even more so now that I'm old n kind of need working door to get in an out and the ladys too !!.

 

Alan,

That looks to be above my skill level and also disposable income level.

 

A white 64 Barracuda nearly became my first car in 1970, was at the local Chevrolet dealership, took it for a test drive and it had a noisy rearend, ended up buying the 61 Impala parked next to it.

 

But you said !!!!!

 

Get healed up Jim. You can ride with me down to Llyod Festlll in my little roadster!

 

How is your car coming Alan. I spend all day chasing leaks, adjusting floats, etc.