Jump to content

Buicknutty

Members
  • Posts

    3,144
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    14

Everything posted by Buicknutty

  1. It was originally a triple white car, then it was painted dark blue, then red. So a bit of a chameleon car! But my wife dislikes white cars so it won't be going back to white, I had a difficult enough "selling" her on the white Reatta I bought for myself a few years ago.
  2. We took the '56 Roadmaster to a cruise night in a nearby town the other night, it was a small event, but the car garnered a number of compliments and questions too. It ran beautifully as usual, not that we should take anything for granted with these old cars, but she does run great.
  3. B&W or colour they are beautiful!
  4. So the work slowly continues on the Wildcat. I was able to determine that the other little mess in the wheel well was a poorly done factory weld where the top brace and the seat back frame are welded in. So some cutting and fabrication later I had the patch ready, then welded it all in solid. The front fender I also finished prepping and have epoxy primed it, it looks so much nicer all one colour now! It did require a bit of bodywork at the bottom section behind the wheel well. There are supports in the back on these and they trap dirt and moisture, even this one from Oklahoma! You can imagine how the ones from here in the North go. Talking about painting. My wife got thinking about what colour she wants it. We have gone through a few choices, and of late it was going to be red, now has decided that she has had enough red cars, and is now interested and deep metallic green. There was nothing like that in the '68 colour chart so we got looking at years. I suggested the early 70's green, so I got a sample and sprayed it, and my wife likes the later dark green used on the 2017-8 Chev Equinox, called Unripened Green, and it sprayed on very very dark, black without nice light on it, as my spotlight shows. I'm not sure about using such a modern colour on this vintage of car as it is going to be basically stock, not a custom. Keith
  5. Beautiful car, sorry to hear of your troubles with the Ford!
  6. Thank you very much! Yes, as you said they are prone to rust and they body is quite a bit more complicated than the 40's and 50's cars I've done in the past, so it just makes a tough job even tougher. The body mounts on the passenger side were the worst ones, as was the general rust which is typical of a Canadian, or other car from the Northeast. I appreciate the tip about the temp gauge too. I've run one under the dash on this and other cars of this era, but having in the dash sounds nice. Keith
  7. That would be the clutch disc that you taking out of the car. Hard to say what the shipping might be to California from where you are, as it might not be worth it. Keith
  8. Just a small update on the progress, which has been steady not spectacular. A lot of smallish repairs which are in difficult areas to access. It does run quite well again, and we have a new dual system on order from Waldron's for it, should be here in a few weeks. I've pictured this odd thing in the left wheel well which has been there since it was built I believe. It seems to be some very sloppy welding where the braces for the seat back and top cylinder are attached to the body. It has now been repaired, but sorry no pics of it yet. Here's a composite of pics from the fuel gauge testing, and of my wife herself working on stripping the fender! I was able to get this fender from Bud's in Oklahoma a few years ago as the original is pretty rusty and has been repaired a couple of times already.
  9. I'm not sure what the issue is for sure, but it seems to have something to do with the gas formulation of late. I've driven this car extensively over the last 12 years or so and I've never had this much of an issue with it either. The information I have gleaned is that here in Ontario the ethanol content has been upped, and non ethanol gas is nearly impossible to get. The statement on the pumps is still "up to (10)%" so if we were getting 2,3, or 4% and are now closer to the 10% number then that might be a the cause. I'm only guessing though. I have asked the staff at times and have got no answer, except for one guy who said that they are not allowed to sell non ethanol gas any more. Keith
  10. That looks like an awesome car! Great find too. Of all the vintage cars I have only one I went looking for all others have been found as you discovered this one, by accident and with intention of buying a car. Sometimes, like you described I find a car just "speaks" to me and I end up bringing it home.
  11. I had said about the trip we did in the Electra, it was two weeks earlier we took the '41 Roadmaster to a similar area for a weekend tour with some other pre WWII cars. This was the first meeting back in this region since I last hosted it in 2019. Anyone with a 1942 or earlier car can participate. This time it was a pretty small group of about 12 cars, ranging from a 1914 Buick, model 55, the big six car, to my '41. With a few Fords and other makes in between. One other Buick was a 1929 owned by a good friend of mine who has the Canadian built (McLaughlin) version of the '14 model 55 which is still under restoration. That will be neat day when both of those rarities are parked side by side! All told we did about 340 miles, and the car mostly ran good. On these tours the model T's are sometimes pretty slow and my car sure didn't like ticking along at 20-25 MPH in the warmth. I had a lot of trouble with vapour lock and actually had to bail out and into a parking lot to pop the hood to let it cool off. As long as I could do 30-35 or more no trouble. I've never had this much trouble with vapour lock in this car before, though there is a bit more ethanol in our gas now. I hadn't driven this car much car so far this year, so it was great to get it out and do some decent driving in it. Keith
  12. I have a bit of catching up to do here, the last first. A fellow club member has a corn roast at his expensive place every summer, this year it was yesterday and we drove the Electra about 150 miles round trip. Ran great, and it was all seldom used secondary highways so a real treat on such a nice day. A friend had his freshly restored '55 GMC truck out to an club event for the first time, it still has only about 100 miles on it, so they are still very much in shakedown mode with. Restored to stock, but with a few things to spiff it up a bit. Keith
  13. Once again I feel so blown away with your workmanship, thank you for sharing. Keith
  14. I got back onto working on the Wildcat over the long weekend, and there were two things I wanted to do. The top motor and test the gas gauge. The top did work, well it used to have no rust as well, that I'm still working on, but the top worked when we got the car, and it was last worked in 2017 when we moved the car to the new place. Now when we tried it, the motor seemed to draw power but nothing else happened. I pulled the motor/pump assembly then challenged my son to take it apart and see what was going on. He's studied electrical things in post secondary mainly related to IT work, but he is pretty good with things like this and I thought it would be good experience for him. It doesn't work, so it was a hopeless case then we will just buy a new one. The issue was the oil had solidified into a really hard mass right in the pump. With careful use of solvent, cleaning and lube the motor and a careful re assembly with a new seal kit I was anxious to see if it would work again. Way back in 2015 or 16 I had bought new cylinders and lines for it and they had just been sitting on the shelf of 'Cat parts. Lo and behold, after adding oil and running the pump to extend the cylinders, etc., the top works again! Then just last week we got a new gas tank sending unit and I was equally anxious to see the gas gauge would work, and it's never worked during our ownership of the car. The tank has been done, but I'm wanting to finish the rest of the welding before I put the gas tank back on. So I just used jumper wires to hook it up through the harness and now it works too! No pictures yet though, so trust me! Later, I promise. For a retired photographer I'm pretty bad at taking and posting pictures! Thanks for your interest.
  15. We took the Electra out for an after dinner cruise last night as the weather had cleared after a couple of days or so of unsettled weather. Just a short 15 mile drive.
  16. What a great bunch of pictures once again! As usual my favs are the vintage ones, the well dressed lady in front of the '49, and the less dressed one in front of the '52 too, but they are all great. Thanks! Keith
  17. Wouldn't that be something! Actually she might defect to another GM brand, Chevrolet. She bought an '84 Camaro new and recently has been looking at the same gen in the local classic car ads. However she blew her extra dough on the 2018 Regal GS last year. Great car too.
  18. Well not totally, one of things left to fix!
  19. I do have a few rodent abatement things in place, this building is constructed very very well, and I've never found one in this building. Right now the car is in such a condition that widows up or not they would still get in it! Most of the windows are out of the car for the work which needs to be done on it. The steel walls of this building go below grade level and into the concrete making it about as animal proof as it is possible to get. The old building is a different story and I do catch mice in that one from time to time so they are around for sure! Keith
  20. We had a nice Buick weekend. On Saturday we took the Electra out for breakfast, etc., a drive of about 35 miles or so. Then today it was so nice I drove the Reatta, top down, to another city to pick up some items, almost all of it two lane paved roads, just a few miles on a major highway. I didn't take note of the mileage but it was something like 110 miles total.
  21. Here is the car as it sits right now, a rather sad looking Wildcat. Though it's appearance has not changed a great deal it is improving, well it will be once I get these other projects out of the way and can back onto it. Keith
  22. That's really great they were able to reproduce the fabric. They sent me samples for my car, but nothing they had at the time, about 2 years ago, matched mine very well. It is possible that since the car was built in Oshawa the fabric could be of local manufacture. For these cars they did get a lot out of Flint and assembled them here. I've heard conflicting stories about this and I suppose they are all true. For the more popular cars they made more stuff here, and the less common ones were finished and trimmed out here. This is before the auto deals and fully assembled cars carried much higher duties than if they were built in Canada. Sorry for the diversion, but I'll be interested to see the end result! Keith
  23. That's fabulous, congratulations! The Buick is looking great and awesome that it's running well too. Keith
×
×
  • Create New...