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Would the crankcase ventilation system be plugged or restricted?

Nice work Bloo, your the man!

This is the hobby, no matter what the car is; make and year aside. Guys accumulated in the garage, The women folk mostly stayed out of the garage It was a great gathering, I wish others of you all reading this could have been there.

Parts, parts and more parts: Dashboard mock up: Wheel mock up And a part from a swine

I had a display of Buick literature for the car including the Buick Facts for 1940 that I picked up at Hershey last fall. No interior: and no trunk shelving or liner

Here we are tucked into the garage. I say tucked, but this garage has twice the space of my previous house. The Roadmaster wouldn't have fit into my previous garage unless I took one of the bumpers off. We just moved into this house in June of this year and the upstairs garage is all mine, mine, mine. Here's part of the Reveal crew, Bruce Kile (middle), President of this chapter and long time, huge supporter of the both this and the national organization. If you've attended National Meets, you would have met Bruce and his wife Shar as the usually manage the hospitality suite and Lamar aka Mr Earl of the Buick Sales and Service fame on the right. Lamar brought a bowl of Scuppernong, a famous southern treat (https://www.southernliving.com/garden/plants/scuppernong) to compliment the BBQ meal. Yes, I have the gravel pans for the engine bay!

The Fender Reveal yielded one overriding question: why a 1940 Buick, why that car? The answer is because that year Buick was my first car and I loved that car. I spent all my high school summers working on that car, oftentimes well into the night; swatting moths out of my trouble light, smelling old grease and unfortunately sucking in noxious welding and sanding fumes. The fact that Buick could only sell 600 of them attests to the lack of general appeal for this car, but definitely to my appeal. This time around I thought it would be fun to go Roadmaster over Special, and I've always liked convertibles. The other significant question has an answer well beyond that make or any other make. The Fender Reveal provided an outstanding opportunity to gather with friends and talk about anything and everything. This is the real investment. It started like this (That's Lamar from this forum on the right an JD, a local Buick chapter member on the left). The car has no brakes, no means of shifting so it stayed in neutral and no steering gearbox. I had connected the tie rod ends with a length of angle. Here we are pushing the car out of the trailer: Had to make a tight turn to aim the back end into the garage: The color does not photograph well, the car is not fire engine red but a deep maroon. When I held an original color chip up to the car, this color is not very far off from the original color after aging 80 plus years. Now that the car was out in the sunlight, I could have a closer look at the excellent work that Dan Kemp did on the metal and paint. This is also a great time to figure out my next steps in putting this thing back together.

CAUTION, THIS IS A THREAD HIJACK! I've already posted my Fender Reveal party for tomorrow, but as a part of that, I'm dragging out the years of collecting and restoring parts and pieces. Here's my dash mock up, Skip did the dash, Bob's did all the instruments and Grain-it painted the dash: Background: The Fender Reveal party is the grand opening of the trailer to pull out the 76C after having been under Dan Kemp's careful body and paint reconstruction. I met Dan in Pigeon Forge at a hot rod show to get the car. I've got a handful of friends coming over to help push it into the garage tomorrow. I've laid out all my literature and "pretty parts". In exchange for having my friends endure my obsession, I'm smoking the hind quarter of a large pig to serve along with sides. This is a Memphis-style smoker get together, wish you were closer Neil, you'd be here.

Trailered the Buick back home last weekend. The body is now complete (99.9%). My F150 Eco-boost hybrid towed the car in my 24-foot enclosed trailer without any problems. I'm throwing a Fender Reveal party tomorrow so I can get a few friends over to help unload and push the car into the garage.

Here's some originals: Seybold dash: Boyer Dash: The original looked good 80+ years ago, the other two certainly look better than the first photo. If the car had either dash turn pattern restored, I wouldn't go out of my way to change it as both are a vast improvement over the unrestored dash. For authentic, the Boyer pattern matches the original Buick produced pattern. Close view, Boyer left and Seybold right:

The stainless center hinge stays with the hood. There are three attachment points at the front, you indicate that you found the one in the rear. One attachment point in the front has two bolts, actually sheet metal bolts (?); one on each side of the hood and two others further forward with just one bolt. It is best to secure moving pads or quilts across your fenders and to have two or three people help with hood removal. The loosened hood will want to fold back on itself if you aren't careful. One person is best on each side of the hood and anther working the center section to keep it from folding. Of course, prepare a place on the floor to set the hood down before you have all three people holding the hood.

A pressure test from the tank to the pump will verify continuity in the fuel line, but won’t verify a leak in the line. Small rust hole or old synthetic fuel line could still be the culprit.

Boom - done!

What do you suspect, brake shoe problems, shoes reversed, glazed?

Bought an old Buick from a guy in Arizona that was ready to paint and had a rebuilt engine. The body had been assembled with self-tapping sheet metal screws. After removing 100 pounds of bondo, the car became a parts car. The rebuilt engine didn’t have an oil pump. The radiator in the back seat was “perfect” and ready to install but the radiator core came from another car and was incorrect. The radiator was in the back seat because it wouldn’t fit. Yes I saw most of it and still paid too much for the parts that I could eventually use. So l was looking for trouble, found it and still complain? I just need someone to laugh with me. There is a difference between an old car wired together to get the last mile out of it and an old car that was painstakingly misassembled so it could be sold as a classic.

Just an idea, take your fan belt off when you try to turn the frozen engine. Water pumps can really get nasty, and a frozen water pump will keep your engine from turning over. You might be in for a surprise, hope so.

You're invited! How do you like your burger?

I’m at a car show in Pigeon Forge where Dan and I swapped the car from his trailer to mine this morning. I woke up this morning feeling like a five year old on Christmas morning. The car looks absolutely amazing. I was so overwhelmed that I forgot to take photos. I’ll carry it home this Sunday and have a version of a gender reveal party next Sunday at the house. I’ll have a couple folks over for what I’ll call a trailer reveal. I’ll need the help pushing it into the garage when it’s offloaded from the trailer.

I found an amazing device to help me maneuver a truck and trailer in a difficult driveway. It's called a Trailer Valet. https://trailervalet.com/shop/trailer-valet-xl/?msclkid=bc9f4dbda740100f29e62ea7b9ec904f (nope, not me in the photo, I wear my jeans differently) My driveway is a hairpin turn, left off a private road which leads from an abbreviated cul de sac turn-around. When I say abbreviated, I mean the diameter of the turn around is about 28 feet. My truck is about 19-feet and the trailer is another 22 feet, not counting the hitch. When pulling off the turn around onto a 10-foot wide private road, I pull forward of my driveway then back the trailer onto my drive. To exit the drive, I pull forward again then back up approximately 150 yards to a small parking area, where I disconnect the trailer, turn the truck around for a 180 approach, re-attach the truck to proceed on my way. Did I do a poor job of describing this procedure, well, it is just as tough to perform and nearly impossible at night. I used the trailer valet for the first time this morning and what a dream. I just have to back the trailer into the cul de sac turn around then use the drill to turn the trailer 180 after disconnecting from the truck. The process took me less than 30 minutes. All this has to be done on a level paved surface, and is a small price to pay when living on a quarter acre lot on the side of a steep hill.

That is a very nice vehicle. Incidentally, I was a junior in high school when I got to drive a 1927 Reo fire truck at the Stowe, VT show. This is an annual show that is organized by the Vermont Automobile Enthusiasts (VAE) club. I was a member at the age of 16 and enjoyed hanging out with a bunch of really old people. As I recall, many were in their 30's which seemed old to me at the time. The owner of the '27 Reo was a guy that owned Burlington Rent-all and was having several vehicles displayed at the Stowe show. I was permitted to drive from his shop to Stowe plus do the parade route which was a really fun excursion. He sold the truck to someone in New York several years ago. I've had a fascination with fire trucks ever since and would love to own one.

Anyone with experience using this device? https://www.calcarcover.com/product/mouseblocker-1000-mb51599/8121

Cool, didn't know you existed! Now added to my file.

The greatest news for this Buick since the day the dealer passed the keys to its' new owner in the spring of 1940 is that the body and paint is complete and that the car will be in my hands this Friday. I'm meeting Dan at the Shades of the Past car show (https://www.pigeonforge.com/shades-of-the-past/) in Pigeon Forge, TN this Friday. This has been a long process, I first delivered the car to Dan in July of 2017. Dan and his sons are incredible metal workers which was their primary focus on this car. Dan didn't work on this car exclusively or even full time in all these years, but would use it as fill in work where his other clients left him breaks in his schedule. Here's the car, partially assembled, loaded and by now on the road. One of my plans for Dan's work has been that once he aligns body panels, the panels would not be removed from the car. For that reason, I delivered a partially assembled rebuilt/remachined engine and a cleaned and tested radiator so that Dan install those parts before his final body alignment work. The toss up was leaning over the freshly painted fenders to install remaining engine components or handle the front clip with removal and reassembly, risking damage and difficult re-alignment. I may yet have to remove the hood though. I still have a huge list of tasks to complete; brakes, wiring, steering, suspension, dash assembly, engine accessories to name a few. It has been so long since I had my hands on this car, that I'm not even positive that I have all the parts I need to finish the work. None the less, I am so looking forward to getting this car back in my garage! For comparison, it took the two cars shown below, plus a chassis from another Roadmaster to get to this point.

Could be one of those variables in assembly sequence. I’ve seen many painted black, but engine color makes sense. Logic would suggest that the engines would have as much assembly completed as possible, then painted. Also, the bracket would be installed separately from the generator since access to the two bolts is more easily accomplished without your the generator in the way. Both of these conditions suggest the bracket would be on the block and painted with the block. The problem with logic is that Buick has disproved that concept on other parts to these cars.

I love 6 cylinder trucks, post a few pix please.