Today was completion, on ONE (1) parking lamp. Labor of love it is but glad I can still practice the “art” Latch is incorrect without cad plating as was requested (crack free example though). Can’t do anything crazy these days with this body but I can DAMN SURE ,locate,secure,sort,get correct supplies & restore the **** out of stuff manageable sized critical parts while sitting down!. And I guess I actually enjoy it & is just fun money of something I love doing, “making bad, good again). P.S. Many thanks for color guidance my Buick brother SM
Hello again. Been a rough few months as I am sure a few of you have had. Drive the Lark a few miles tonight.
Pulled the lower rockers to clean & polish, as well of adding new Tomato red strips. Had a few round clips missing so placed an order for some new ones. This is how they looked. Some deep clean front and back then some steel wool. After some Chrome polish. Came out good. Me like.
View attachment 637157 Buick AM/FM radio gutted & converted to modern electronics w/blue tooth with still keeping the exact factory look with original knobs still operating the whole modern system. Mini amplifier added and I added a mini sub woofer in behind the back seat back. Bench tested the complete new system and it sounds way plenty powerful for my convertible. Sub woofer is not enough to beat down other cars at stop lights but plenty of power to enjoy over a stock system for sure. Also the mini amplifier can fit in the glove box or behind the dash. I used two Kicker 5-1/4" speakers in the factory front speaker grill location on the top of the dash. Used the JBL BassPro Nano sub behind the back seat back. Also the mini amp is the AudioControl ACM-4.300 Everything looks completely factory stock and you would never know until you turned it on.
... got my GS the opportunity to state who the boss is, while launching at the traffic lights and a 2020 BMW 5series trying to challenge the 455 cui. It is always funny to see the surprised expression on the faces when a 50 year old piece of solid steel outbeats modern technology
Thought about doing the same thing in the Wildcat when the int was apart. What pattern and tool did you use to cut the holes in the side panels?
I just bought on ebay a couple leather hole punch kits. They sell for as I remember under $20 bucks. I practiced on some vinyl pieces I got from Hobby-Lobby using different punch sizes to see what size holes I wanted. I made a pattern template out of a Costco peanut tub lid.You just need to think it out and practice.
I wanna do sonething like that myself but not with decals. When I got the trailer it had the last owners road race / rally stickers all over. None of them came off without taking up the powercoat / vinyl covering on the alumn panels. Ended up having to sand it off and repaint those places.
This trailer will be with me until I die probably, my son who does Buicks too will get it then so I’m not worried about removing them .
Got the GS400 out of the garage to give it a check-over, before taking a road trip down to Waterboy's shindig this coming weekend. Decided while I had it out to run up to the grocery store and grab a couple things... Seems to be fine and ready for the trip!
Realy like the clean look of that! I didn't know there was enough room behind there. Thanks for the idea.
Note, when buying a trailer with an escape door make sure of the minimum height. It’s 11 inch to bottom of the door on my 73 and 13” on the 1970-72, the escape door is 14 inches, so I built these ramps 5” tall so all the doors will clear, what a pain. I put a hinge in the middle to fold them up if there’re in the way anytime. 2x4’s with 3/4 plywood on both sides. 16’ long.
The floor is rubber, it’s really pretty hard to move them forward or back by hand, and things don’t move around much at all unless I swerve crazy to miss the occasional armadillo or pronghorn. When the car is on it, tied down on all four corners and the weight, I think it will keep it in place. Or am I not thinking this through?
