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What town is that? :confused:
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I think its a doodlebug. There are alot of old contraptions like that where i'm from (upstate new york). It was a poor farming area in the early 1900's, so people had to make do with what little they had to keep themselves and the crops alive.
A few years ago a neighborhood farmer dragged his junkyard out of the woods and piled it on the front lawn for the metal scrap truck to pick up; well right on the top of the pile was a 1937 Indian Chief motorcycle. Someone way back welded it into a tricycle and put one huge wheel on the back that looked like an old riveted lead water tank (it looked like todays hot water heater). So when i think about it, it wasn't a tricycle since it now had 2 wheels!
I asked him if i could have the contraption and he said i could take it for free, but a few days later, (when i finally rounded up a truck and a helper), it and the junk pile were gone....
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My lock switch never worked on both of my tc's. I don't trust mechanics period, let alone mechanics who think they know about 20 year old cars. So i just use the lug wrench to lock mine down like it says in the manual, and save myself the potential headache of a mechanic making my car worse and then getting paid for it.
Quick unrelated story---- I need to bring my Ferrari to the Ferrari dealership for periodic minor maintenance (it has an interference engine and you DO NOT want to take chances with mainrtenance on that engine), and EVERY TIME i bring it there for maintenance, they f* something up. Since the mechanics there are factory trained in Italy at Ferrari, you would think they know their stuff, but in my opinion, EVERY mechanic is a gamble........
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Karen J States? I was under the impression that your father bought it new. Howcome Karen J States never drove it??
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I've finally gotten to cleaning up and selling my girlfriends other tc (#89-1753), it's a red/ginger/ginger auto trans car. The previous owner in eastern Colorado used it as a sunny day car until it got hit with hail (while it was at the garage getting it's oil changed). It runs/drives nice and has 101k miles on it. We drove it 3 hours to Denver when we bought it with no problems whatsoever. The whole car is complete and original. The interior has typical wear (mainly on seats and armrest). Mechanically, it could use new motor mounts and new shocks/struts. Looks-wise, the trunk/trim and all top surfaces have hail dings (the hardtop roof doesn't). I've already replaced the hood and also have new trim pieces that come with the car. I'll get pictures up in a day or two...
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How much do you want for the armrest and drivers side headlight? (haha, that's a joke
)Well good luck selling it, I'm no expert but I'm thinking that your price is way too cheap.... :confused:
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I agree
; did only the knob come off, or the knob and the metal shaft? If the knob came off, then you can bend the metal lock-spring on the knob and snap the knob back on the shaft; if the knob and shaft came off, then you have to try to push it all the way in hard enough until you hear a click, which locks the shaft onto the switch assembly. If the whole switch assembly is bad, then that's not good 
, because the switch assembly is installed from the back of the dashboard- so other than removing the dashboard to slide the asembly out of the back of the dash assembly, you'll have to drill out the rivets from the front that hold on the switch mounting bracket, then re-rivet or bolt it back on with the new switch assembly....Personally, if my lights and dimmer switch worked (although the switch was wobbly), then I wouldn't mess with it :cool:
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What do you need to know?
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Then, you can unplug the remaining wire connections that you couldn't get to before. The wiring harness goes all the way from one side to the other, and is also in plastic wire ties too (that you'll have to bust off). You'll also have to disconnect the heat/ac ductwork from the side vents (small black flexible hoses pull straight off the dashboard ports), and also disconnect the main black hard plastic duct that goes from one side of the dash to the other (they're only taped together with black tape at the connections). Then pull out the dashboard assembly. Then I catagorized all the nuts/bolts/screws and made sure they all went back into the same places.
Overall, it was pretty easy, just time consuming. The hardest part was monkeying with getting the headlight switch handle out of the switch assembly (which is explained elsewhere in this forum). Good luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Then loosen the top main dashboard bolts (i think there are 6 of them) that hold the top of the dash to the firewall, then two lower bolts (one on each side) that hold the dash to the side kick panel areas. Leave the 2 bottom bolts loose (don't remove them) and now you can swing the dashboard downward using those 2 bolts as hinges. Then...
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Well to tell the truth, i just went haywire on it and started loosening every nut/bolt/screw that i could find, and unsnapping every wiring connection i could disconnect. Then little by little it all started making sense. The leather dashpod screws off, the gauge pod unscrews and unplugs, the package tray 2 pieces snap off, the dash speaker grills snap off, the vent/vin # front section then screws off, the glove compartment and all the bottom plastic & carpeted panels unscrews, the kick panels have 2 screws each and also pop out from under the sills, the middle console w/ side leather panels, radio, a/c panel all unscrew, the steering column has 2 nuts beneath it holding it on. then...
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I agree about the junkyards. I'm from NY (live in Colorado now) but I remember walking through the junkyards when i was a teenager, rows and rows of fastback mustangs, suicide door lincolns, gto judges, convertible falcons. Ieven saw a pink 50's cadillac convertible with pink leather interior. All the cars were placed together by make and model, in row after row after row..
Then while i was away at college, scrap metal companies came to the junkyards with their mobile car crushers and smashed them all. There are still a few cars here and there that they couln't get to, down in ravines and deep in the woods on the outskirts of the junkyards, and some half buried ones too.
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That's something I was wondering about, HOW did they put those things together in the factory? And why? Wouldn't it have just been so much easier to craft sheetmetal panels for the roof/sides and doors instead of having expert woodcrafters hand cut/fit each individual piece at the factory? I would think that they were real works of art that someone put ALOT of time into as they came out of the factory. Just amazing...
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Well I'm hoping that it will be saved...
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Hi, does it roll and steer? Would it roll onto a flatbed trailer? I'm also guessing that alot of the wood fell off it it when you moved it, can I get every piece of wood, right down to the splinters so I could use them as a form?
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Don't sell it or part it out, keep it and enjoy it.......
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Ya, more like ten PLUS 30 years....
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Hey homie, nice edsel, car collecting is fun, but it has it's drawbacks too. . Car collecting is a very expensive hobby (paying for storage, maintenance, parts, insurance, gas, theft, trailering, car shows, etc.) than, say, coin collecting. I started collecting cars when I was 14 and have since had over 275 cars. Now that i'm 40, I'm still just as broke as I was when I was 14, but at least I have a nice car collection..
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Wow, that's interesting, whats the story with it? My guess is that the owner parked it there 40 years ago, and from the close proximity to the road, has been asked many times over the years if he wanted to sell it, but didn't want to. It's probably known around town as "the old woody" too.
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I accidentally slashed my top, so now i have to get a new one. I was planning on buying one off of ebay and paying a top installation company to put it on. Does anyone have any experience with this and can suggest the costs, type of top and how the top held up over any length of time?
Thanks.
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Danger! Don't try to remove your dashboard unless you've got LOTS of spare time, lots of patience, a very good memory and LOTS OF BEER :eek::eek::eek:
The first picture is my Exotic Red with the dashboard removed, and the second picture is my Royal Cabernet with the dashboard installed. Although the pictures are poor quality, it came out looking really nice.. It took about 3 hours out for each car and 3 hours in for each car, and it's something i'll never do again, no matter how much my girlfriend prefers the double stitching to the single stitching!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Special thanks to: My Tc Toy, Cowancom, and 89Tc-16v for their info regarding removing the dashboard
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Well i think buying a TC just to part it out and make $$$ is wrong. This forum is for people that love TC's, not people who could give a crap about them and see them as a way to make the almighty dollar....
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Hi Joe47,
Thanks for the reply, yours looks really nice. I'm going to see if i can shop around and find an ok used one for less but if that doesn't work out then i'll give you a shout. thanks
-mike
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I have two armrests that are pretty worn and am looking for one decent ginger one; does anyone know where i can find one? :eek:
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, because the switch assembly is installed from the back of the dashboard- so other than removing the dashboard to slide the asembly out of the back of the dash assembly, you'll have to drill out the rivets from the front that hold on the switch mounting bracket, then re-rivet or bolt it back on with the new switch assembly....
'90 TC repairs in N. Virginia
in Chrysler's TC by Maserati
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just open the trunk and pull the u-shaped cut in the carpet back (it's straight ahead, at the top of the front wall of the trunk). Then put your lug wrench on the big nut and turn it until you can see the top getting pulled down; it should then click. Then you're done. To release the top, just do the opposite with the lug wrench. It tells all about it in the manual.
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