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Hi Anderson, welcome back, good to have time again to finish your project. friendly regards from, Holland

Hi Dale , actually there is , you can see it on the pictures. Its attached from the hood to cowl . And badly rusted as you can see on the pictures . Behind the stainless vertical window divider i have to find out how it was fixed to the metal strip. I am afraid some improvements are neccesary to prevent rusting again ..I will let you all know when i am that far . first step now is to let the body sandblasted .The doors and fenders are allready been stripped from paint by a company how put those into a chemical solution. The results were great nice shiny metal from 72 years old. :cool:. They ware sandblasting the rustspots and put them into the epoxyprimer, and than they are ready for further treatment. so far so good . Paul

A few pic's of the disambling proces of the window's dashbord and the cleaning of the front wheel parts . :cool:

Hi, back again. We did a lot of work to remove all the parts and bolts from the body and with result. We had a "Lift off " today we separated the body from its chassis with a forklift and that went well. Only it started to rain badly while lifting off the body .. that was a minor issue. But finally we got the body on a temporary frame .

Seems that the Buick had its service on 28, march 1966 ...... at 99093 miles . that is a long time ago..... A look into the engine compartment And i recieved finaly some parts from Bob's so i could't restore the numbers of the speedo meter, i tried copper paint to spray the backplate of the meter into the right color and that worked out very well. only the bezel has to be rechromed .

A few pictures of the headliner, the damping material that is glued to the roof is in a pretty good shape . for, i noticed a color code on the screw mounted headliner bows from front to rear: yellow, red, blue, green braun

Hi , So we are a week further and most of the interior parts are removed from the car, and again not much troubles getting all the bolts loose. Also got all the small window parts and door lock's sandblasted and protected against rust. And put them away. Next step is removing the front fenders and getting the doors , hood , trunk and rear fenders all free from paint by giving them a special chemical "bath" at a company overhere. So rust and paint are off then. When the body is separated from the chassis i will let it sandblasted.. gr Paul

Finally we removed the left rear fender and the whole rear interior of the car, Afer a few drops of penetrating oil all the bolts came of easy, doors are in a great shape the cars bottom sheetmetal is nice. I hope to continue next week because i want to get the body of its chassis and get it sandblasted. Paul

We started to disamble the Trunk , gastank, rear window´s , Because of water leakage from the back window we noticed our first issue, just were the sparetire is fitted the scheetmetal was rusted through, also the edge of the trunk had some rustdamage. The rest of the trunk seems to be in a good shape, So nothing to worry about. I also noticed some damage of an old "car accident" at the rear bumper stud's. [ATTACH=CONFIG]187033[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]187034[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]187035[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]187036[/ATTACH]

We started to disamble the Trunk , gastank, rear window´s , Because of water leakage from the back window we noticed our first issue, just were the sparetire is fitted the scheetmetal was rusted through, also the edge of the trunk had some rustdamage. The rest of the trunk seems to be in a good shape, So nothing to worry about. I also noticed some damage of an old "car accident" at the rear bumper stud's.

Hi , Here we are again, last week my 1941 Buick model 40B finally arrived from the USA including a lot of important parts. Many thanks to Anderson and George! its a great original car with all its original details. Never welded. A great project car .. Now we can continue our restoration. So here some pic's. of the arrival .

Hi Dale , I understand your opinion, but something positive happend during this Thread, i became an offer for a nearly original Buick 40-B 4 door from a member of this forum. That Buick is in a much better state to restore than the one i have now. The car is nearly rustfree . So we decided to take over that Buick .. but it wil go on transport to the NL on 27th december 2012. The point is that it missed some important parts so i use my "blue Buick now as a Parts car and decided to disamble it from the inside out and do a lot of forwork , So thats is why you only see some pictures of parts.. So i hope i can start at the end of januari with the other Buick .. that is why you not seeing any pic's of the car. I spend most of the time now disamble parts blast them and put them away . Remember that these Buicks in europe are not common so if i can make someone happy overhere with some parts than it was worth all the work too. At the other way i think its nice to see some detailed pictures on the forum. The most of us are no car mechanics, so i use the pictures together with the workshop manual for the build up. And i like to do it right. Before i have some parts ordered in the USA recieved overhere it normally takes a month so now i had the oppurtunity to collect a lot of parts too , new rubbers and weatherstriping , new exhaust , all new brake parts, seals,engine overhaulkit. . Feel free to give any comment , and ... merry X-mas Paul

Merry Christmas to you all, I had some really busy weeks till chrismass so now i am glad to spent some time together with my family and with the Buick offcourse .. I disambeled the carburettors and found out that the automatic choke adjuster was gone and the engine start switch was also damaged .. and from the rear carb the float was leak. so i had to find another AAV16 carb, lucky as i am i found one by Ebay .. i ordered a overhaullset by Bobs so after a smooth sandblasting the carburetors . If anybody can explain to me how the damper valve is supposed to work , has this part to be manualy adjusted ? Paul

And some other work is been done sanding the air duct, removing al the old blu paint from the garnish and polisch them ...... the garnisch "clips" from the window moulings are very weak so when you remove them while bending they will break. If someone has two set's " ivory colored" pieces for the window Garnish (see picture) please send me a pm. Paul

I also started last weekend disambling the engine parts , Carburators off and the manifolds of. i sandend them and they really look nice... no cracks although the last owner glued the Heater riser valves on the manifoldhousing .......... so there is no valve working now ........ probably they leaked exhaust gases thru....... I respond on Anderson pearson its thread "with the sticking heater riser valve" but he has one not working valve the other does . something inside me is saying let it the way it is ......... .Some advice is welcome .. Also some linkage of the carburetors were welded together... its a waist of material but keeps thinking. some pics .. Manifolds paul

Back again after a busy week , I disambled the last dashboard parts, cleaned them, polish them sanded some parts (ashtrays were badly rusted) so i sprayed them after sanding with clear coat and they looked nice again , even the radio had to change some color.. unfortunatly the internal parts were so damaged by water that it can not be repared. I now want to build up only the " button part" of the radio just for the original look so i need some nice new Buttons with Buick on it ...... Who has some ??

Hi Sedanette, Did i saw a some video's on Youtube of your car? A two door Buick coupe ( a beautifull car) ! lets keep in touch , i am located in Holland and i am restoring a Buick from 1941, There are not many Buicks around here so i bought myselve a parts car (i needed also a pair of good bumpers) , and more stuff. Maybe in the future i can help you with some other parts. regards Paul

Lets say "happy Blasting " . I also became good news ! A good friend of my offered me a beauty of a partscar for sale including some badly wanted parts. its sold now and i am very happy with that. Now we can complete for 90% the restauration. Buick's from the 40-ties are very rear overhere so oppertunities to get parts are scarce . Anderson and George thank you very much ! regards Paul

Hi Anderson, These manifolds looks familiair .. The ones i have has also cracks (small block ), I am oiling them daily to try to lose the heater riser valves. I am technical more familiar with the flathead six from Dodge but i know that a good working heatervalve saves you fuel , especially when you drive the car in cold periods. The fuel wil get better burned into the cilinders . Some say they let the valve positioned in the half open half middle postion. But you can feel the way your engine runs if the heater valve is correctly open. But is it worth afterall to risk a damaged manifold when you try to lose the valves ........ (and you just had them welded ) I think not. You know what they cost.. (and its only one that is not functioning ). So i would let it the way it is . Have a happy Thanksgiving ! Paul

Hi John, Thank you . On Saturday i sandblasted and primed a lot of small stuff , radiator parts and the horns, so that really saves a lot of time. I am nearly ready with the interior parts as mouldings etc. Only the zamac parts as emblems and trunkmouldings are difficult parts to clean. I tried to sandblast them but that is not giving a nice and smooths surface. When the chrome is blasted off than the pitting gets worser. so its better to do some mechanical grinding and than polishing the surface, it takes one evening to clean one doorhandle. But the results are fine and good enough for rechroming. I would be happy when i can finally start on the mechanical and engine parts. Paul

Does anyone know what is original into the chrome window moulding (the two white pieces) , the last owner did some creative cutting with paper i like to bring it back to original And are there new chrome rings for sale for the odometer and the two gauges ? thank you for your replies Paul,

Thank You Mail is out (nice dash! ) Paul

This week i tested my cabin sander on some small parts of the Buick . This is a really great machine Paint and rust gets of easy and it safes a lot of time, the dash parts and some window mouldings are also primed. now we have time to clean all the chrome and stainless mouldings (or what is left of it ) . to be continued Paul

Nice work Pat , But i have a question about Granit.com do you have any e-mail adress from those guys?? I can't find it on there site etc, And calling them from Holland is a bit difficult because of the time "line" if possible please let me know, regards Paul

Thanks Rob, Yes she is a nice dog . For now she is aloud to sit on the old buick seats , when they are renewed she have to move to the trunk . Paul