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    LED lighting for 1965 Rivieras and later

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    13 hours ago, Siddy Fo said:


    hey can you post what exactly you had to add besides the bulbs to get the system to work? Maybe photos of where you wired these things in? Appreciated. 


    Other than the LED bulbs & the new electronic flasher (which looks the same as the stock flasher) I didn’t have to “add” or “rewire” anything. It was “plug & play” as they say

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    Interior progress this weekend

    in Buick Riviera

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    I bought my “dimmable” LED’s from Superbright also. I didn’t install them right away. By the time I got around to installing them & found out my LED’s didn’t dim either it was too late to return them. I thought I bought the wrong ones. Now your “shining new light” on the subject :). So it might be my headlight switch. I’ll will try that. 

    My 65, another build to follow

    in Buick Riviera

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    3 hours ago, arnulfo de l.a. said:

    Anyone have a pic of a broken horn bar? Curious as to exactly where the break occurs, to possibly provide some kind of re enforcement . Thanks


    This broken horn bar hub was what was left in the wood wheel u gave me. U can see where both bars once lived. Another friend of mine had an original horn bar with the crack in the same place. I failed to snap a pic of that one

     

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    Looking for seat belts for my 64 Rivi

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    Did any first-gen seat belt retractors have the “auto lock” when pulled to fast.
     

    Not sure how to describe it. When putting on your seat belt on new cars it locks if u pull too fast which is a safety thing to keep us in our seat when/if in an accident. Is this just a new car thing?

    My 65, another build to follow

    in Buick Riviera

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    again...sorry for the late reply...I have an AWESOME excuse this time...I am a brand new Grandpa (woo WHOO). My daughter gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. I don’t wanna be “that” guy & post baby pix haha. As Rivieras are beautiful cars they don’t stand a chance against this little baby girl haha

     

    @65VerdeGS

    I have heard some guys get the original cracked horn bar repaired. U gotta find a guy who can weld pot metal. Have u tried that? 

    I reached out to buickbonehead (Rick Rawls) & sent him pix of the differences I found. He did not know who made the narrower one & could not confirm that the one I have was one of his. But he did say it looked like his work. I am confident it is his work just from comparing stories & fitment. I was being a cheapskate years ago when these horn bars cost (dont quote me on this) $200?? I now paid $350...ouch!!! This damn car is expensive. 

    Thank U so much for that steering wheel repair link. I’m still building up the courage to do the repair myself while I sort out other projects. 

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    My 65, another build to follow

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    On 6/10/2020 at 11:49 AM, 65VerdeGS said:

    I've really been enjoying reading about your build.  You've made great progress and your car looks excellent!  

     

    I was intrigued to hear you say there are two repro horn bars out there - narrow and wide.  Do you know who made which?  Did you simply prefer the look of the wider one or was there a functional issue involved? 

     

    Do you mind measuring the wider horn bar you now have?  I have a repro horn bar on my '65 but can't recall who I got it from.  It works great and I suspect it may be the wider one.  Just would like to make sure.

     

    I'm sure your cracked wood wheel can be restored.  There are guys advertising such a service in Hemmings.  I also came across an article on doing it yourself using epoxy. Will have to search my archives for that


    thank U sir 

     

    Sorry for replying so late, busy week, I didn’t get a chance to measure for u until now. 12-3/4” is the width of my horn bar. I didn’t think to measure the narrower one when I had it here. I’m guessing the narrower version is 1/4” less which isn’t much. But my eye caught it when I mounted it to the steering wheel. It didn’t fill the steering wheel cut-out as nice as the wider one. Plus, the ends were rounded over much more than the wider one. So yes, I preferred the “look” of the wider one. 
     

    Functionality: they both do the job. But if u search on this forum u will hear many people having issues with some horn bars not activating the horn without mods. Two solutions were to leave screws loose &/or grinding the mounting plate thinner. The arms of the narrower horn bar I had also weren’t bent right. They did not sit up past the steering wheel cutout. One sat below the cutout & one sat slightly above. One suggestion I got was to bend the arms myself to fix it. That’s like getting your bumpers chromed before they get straightened. Grinding, leaving screws loose & bending chromed steel did NOT sound appealing to me. Especially, when these horn bars cost so much & many guys said their horn bars didn’t have any issues. I had to dig deeper. 
     

    @buickbonehead is the main guy reproducing the near perfect wider horn bars. Unfortunately, he did not have any for sale. He did mention that there is someone out there who copied his version but he doesn’t know the guy. When I showed him pix of the narrow version he agreed it did not look like his work. 


    Good idea on the steering wheel epoxy repair article. I will look for that. I’ll look in the Hemming’s too, thx. YouTube has a couple how-to vids & @kreed gave me a few pointers from when he once did it. Thx Ken. I have not built up the courage. Nor have I gotten over the excitement of actually having a faux wood wheel on my car to take it off & experiment with that repair 😆

    Progress on the '64

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    Posted

    16 hours ago, RivNut said:

    For the last couple of years, every light I've seen at the end of the tunnel has turned out to be the headlight of an oncoming freight train.


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    I couldn’t have said it better 

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