"Are you putting the stripe on the trunk?" Oh yeah. The raised section on the hood gets painted gloss white with a 1/4" white pinstripe around it. Then the Factory, twin stripe, body side stripes go on from the front fenders to the rear wheel houses, then above them, and continue to the end of the rear quarters. (Its an early car.) The Trunk lid also gets the Factory twin pin stripes that end on the quarters. Then the entire raised middle section of the trunk lid gets the gloss white stripe and it goes from the end of the trunk lid all the way up to the vinyl top trim. Two thin pin stripes will go from the tips of the factory pin stripes on the trunk lid up the tulip panel to the vinyl top trim. Then the Motion emblems and the Hurst Equipped emblem go on. Bill, The car is definitely a girl. She has lots of extra "jewelry" plus she's wearing war paint. She may also have a few muscles, but who can fault her for that? Duane
Why the folks at Motion felt the need to mess up a perfectly good dash pad with those badges is a head scratcher. It would have at least looked a little sleeker with the Motion badge under the Hurst badge with the raised H. Nice job of restoring it none the less.
That Black car is definitely a He, and so is the 70 White X and the truck. I already have a Love/Hate relationship with my car, it has to be a girl. Duane
Youngsters, please take note. This is the reciprocal of a FRAM oil filter. Your engine will thank you. Then again, even a coffee can with some cheese cloth would be better than a FRAM from the tests I've seen.
Duane, What is the red piece above the valve cover? I assume its keeps the wires in place? I have never seen that before and is it a '69 only thing? Have you been able to locate a good set of valve cover decals or are you going to have to use the crappy repros that are currently available?
Mike- Buick called it a "clip". Its under 2.559 in the parts book. I call it a wiring gutter. All 68 and up Buick engines have it. The earlier cars may have had it too, I don't know. They're different between years and models. On my 70, the "gutter" didn't have the loop for the PCV. Instead, the engine had a separate clip for the PCV that attached to the bolt off the choke. I "think" the one Duane has is off a later car, possibly a 71/72 GS. Again, there are a few different varieties.
It should be noted that in Duane's situation, the gutter he's using is the best one for his application. He cant use the right one because he doesn't have a factory manifold, therefore he cant use the factory PCV clip. I stole this pic from Jim's GSX resto thread. If you look close you can see the difference
I can't get anything past you guys. There is no allowance for the 69-70 "clip" on the B4B intake so we opted to use a 71 style "wiring gutter" (as Jason calls it) that has the "clip" built in. Consider it a "Day 2" part. Mike asks, "Have you been able to locate a good set of valve cover decals or are you going to have to use the crappy repros that are currently available?" I don't get to use either. When Jimmy bought the car it came with a set of rusty Original 69 Buick Chrome valve covers. (They were laying outside the garage on the grass.) They did not have any decals on them, but did have a small rectangular spot of glue on each one where "Motion" emblems were installed........and that is what's going back on. The originals were long gone but Jimmy bought 6 original used emblems from Joel Rosen. From the way he tells it, he was quizzed about the car for almost 30 minutes, before being allowed to buy them. Anyway he only needed five, 2 for the fenders, 2 for the valve covers and 1 for the trunk lid, but Joel would only sell them in pairs, so he bought 6 emblems. Joel also sold him the smaller emblems, as he said they were the ones used at those locations, even though it has the larger emblem on the dash pad. These came with the car when I bought it. Oh and by the way Jimmy paid $300.00 a piece for them. Duane
Actually I forgot that in '68 they used these little clear plastic clips that slid over the valve cover bolt like the spark plug wire holders. They were very brittle and broke easily, that is why you never see them. I have an NOS set that I can probably reproduce and 3D print. I have never seen a "clip" like the one you mentioned on a '68 and it is not listed in my '68 parts manual. Duane, not nit-picking, just keeping you on your toes
Mike, No problem with me. Just remember you guys are having days to review all the pics we are posting on the car, and when we judge them we only have around 5 minutes......................so the next time anyone bitches that we missed something the first time around but caught it the following year, just remember this........................ Duane
Its all a learning experience for me and it inspires me to add some details to my own GS. Keep up the great work. I promise I wont bitch if you miss something on my car if you ever get a chance to judge it again
