Pilgrim65
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triumph accailm , From what I remember pretty awful car , such that never see restored or original ones ,no one wants them ?
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Hi Cc
yea hopefully a deal can be done between them , I’ve also been interested to see what you can buy for reasonable money to, as fell in love with Windsofchange’s 1947 he restored and have been looking at ads since , but not having the skills to restore myself have looked at up together cars and consequently haven’t seen anything with a reasonable price , dealers asking 50/60 k even more for fully restored examples., to rich for me.
the 25k Delaware car is sold , not surprised.
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Looks interesting ,guide price?
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Couple of weeks ago , Nice roadmaster in California for 39k
and a super in Delaware for 25 k , both seem good value as dealers asking much more.
unlikely to find a reasonable driver for less , I wonder how much the one you missed fetched , but can’t compare as it looked a major restoration project and would need thousands spending even to reach standard of the two above , so as you state you would like a driver that you can restore it would help members to know budget restraints ,to enable recommendations
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2 hours ago, Fr. Buick said:
Father Christmas riding in style , one beutiful expensive sleigh, lucky Santa
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Up date , took advice , wanted a good job so Ruby currently at paint shop , will post results hopefully this week.
surprisingly they spotted two more areas needing attention so worth while and pleased with quoted 250 bucks
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Have a few favourites, but like this one as good shot of front of Ruby and the associated memories of a great night out with friends.
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1 hour ago, Elpad said:
Amazing photo any details where and when , that’s a lot of elephants for a circus
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4 hours ago, avgwarhawk said:
That’s the way to travel , My club for lunch , James
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We have a product over here called vanish foam , carpets and upholstery similar method of use as described for suds , except easier as constant dampness and no excessive wetting , therefore just vacuum foam off , let dry naturally, great results . Probably available in States to.
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49 minutes ago, PFitz said:
Filling, leveling, and polishing, paint chips is easy. Matching the color is an art, unless that color mix is already in an auto paint company's color library.
If you can get the car there, some autobody supply houses have the special camera and software to photo and match up to an existing color in their computer system. Even if not a perfect match, it's a good starting point to do some further mixing of that scan result to match, ..... that is, if your paint supplier is willing to do that and has someone with a good eye for mixing/matching a color. A few phone calls may find a shop with such a camera system.
Paul
49 minutes ago, PFitz said:Filling, leveling, and polishing, paint chips is easy. Matching the color is an art, unless that color mix is already in an auto paint company's color library.
If you can get the car there, some autobody supply houses have the special camera and software to photo and match up to an existing color in their computer system. Even if not a perfect match, it's a good starting point to do some further mixing of that scan result to match, ..... that is, if your paint supplier is willing to do that and has someone with a good eye for mixing/matching a color. A few phone calls may find a shop with such a camera system.
Paul
Actually had paint colour matched as described above ,9 months ago , gave me a 1/2 pint pot ,but although sealed has gone to jelly , will buy again
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On 8/13/2018 at 2:59 PM, jpage said:
A good body shop should have no problem repairing superficial chipping but matching the color oh touch up jobs can be an issue, especially if it's wasn't a standard factory mix or an older job. It might be cheaper if you had the whole panel painted, probably look better and in the long run probably less aggravation!
Car has really good gloss finish , not convinced paint shops here as good as the one that did resto spray job in Chicago and may look different, then big problem
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19 hours ago, John348 said:
Maybe you should contact your insurance carrier and see what they advise, good chance that they will pay for the repair. In order to match they might pay for the entire panel
Can only insure classic cars 3rd party here in Cyprus , its a worry , cheers
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Had Ruby a while now , and paintwork was perfect when she arrived , unfortunately touched gate post early on before I became versatile at reversing out of drive, touched it up with nail polish , not good but red. However sadly in last week two chips have appeared on passenger side door edge ,
bought matched paint and touched up first chip , not good finish , so as another appeared yesterday, asking for advice ,either for diy or wether paint shops can repair same without spraying complete panel
cheers
pilgrim
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Family visit , not quite girls on Buick’s , but daughter a bit of a looker, thought they are nice photos so apologise for slight off topic with inclusion of me and my grandson
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23 minutes ago, Dynaflash8 said:
You took one of MY old cars overseas? That had to be a 1939 Buick that a local dealer sold for me and sent to Germany. One other car that I sold locally ended up being taken to an auction by the guy who bought it from me and a dealer bought it at the auction and sold it to somebody in Spain. That was a nice old 1935 Buick Series 40 and I do grieve some over the loss of that car here. If it were still in the USA I might have bought it back some day.....I've been known to do that before......once (1939 Buick 41-C convertible sedan) and I'd do it again for a '41 Buick Limited if I could, which I can't.
23 minutes ago, Dynaflash8 said:You took one of MY old cars overseas? That had to be a 1939 Buick that a local dealer sold for me and sent to Germany. One other car that I sold locally ended up being taken to an auction by the guy who bought it from me and a dealer bought it at the auction and sold it to somebody in Spain. That was a nice old 1935 Buick Series 40 and I do grieve some over the loss of that car here. If it were still in the USA I might have bought it back some day.....I've been known to do that before......once (1939 Buick 41-C convertible sedan) and I'd do it again for a '41 Buick Limited if I could, which I can't.
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23 minutes ago, Dynaflash8 said:You took one of MY old cars overseas? That had to be a 1939 Buick that a local dealer sold for me and sent to Germany. One other car that I sold locally ended up being taken to an auction by the guy who bought it from me and a dealer bought it at the auction and sold it to somebody in Spain. That was a nice old 1935 Buick Series 40 and I do grieve some over the loss of that car here. If it were still in the USA I might have bought it back some day.....I've been known to do that before......once (1939 Buick 41-C convertible sedan) and I'd do it again for a '41 Buick Limited if I could, which I can't.
Afraid ment in the general sense car being an American Buick convertible, would loved to have the one you sold 1939 Buick , but sadly not me
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2 hours ago, Dynaflash8 said:
Seems like a whole more worry and discussion about parts than is warranted to me. If another antique car is never sold outside of the USA that would make me happy, personally. I'm not in the business of selling antique cars, and I can see how that concerns those who are. But, my gut aches every time an old car leaves the country, especially one that I've owned. That said, would I sell one of my cars to somebody outside of the USA? Well, a local dealer sold one for me and I was glad to see it go anywhere it could. So, what can I say on that subject? Somebody said "You do what you have to do."
As far as NOS parts being available, maybe if you're talking late model cars the writer was correct that many are sitting on shelves. I have one such car but it is certainly only functional when I need A/C and want to drive some old car a little further from home. For the pre-War cars I do cherish, NOS parts have virtually disappeared. One dealer who had scads of Buick parts for pre-War Buicks 15 years ago had virtually none available today. Maybe one of this or one of that in mechanical parts, but no trim parts at all. But, when you turn to reproduction trim parts made outside of the USA , half of the time they don't fit or fit poorly. Bottom line is, if the price goes up for overseas reproduction parts, maybe some small companies in the USA would be willing to set up and produce parts inside of the USA? And that would be a good thing.
The way I feel is that my forebears on my father's side came over here in the late 1600's and on my mother's side sometime in the late 1800's and my family didn't leave anything over there. Now watch everybody come down on me.
I apologise for taking one of your old cars out of the US , but you should be happy because if your forebears came from over here I may be a relative ?
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had an emailed this subject from a great friendly guy Alex at West Coast Shipping , who I used to bring Ruby to uk.
lots of Europeans buy their classics in the US and the worry is that any import tax hike in US ,will be retaliated by a similar hike over here that could have serious consequences, make you think twice if say 25% added to costs , and result in less sales which will affect US and the resto businesses and hobbyist over here .
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You stateside guys , probably don’t have a to frequent need for triumph parts , but feel obliged to offer credit when credit due .
ordered carbs service kits on a Wednesday morning from Rimmer brothers in UK and they arrived at UPS office in Nicosia Cyprus Friday same week, amazing first class service from Rimmers and UPS
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I’m Not American , English, but I heard you guys have what they call black sites , think they should take these scum there lock up and through away the keys .
ive alerted eBay several times , last scammer had 352 cars advertised and was taken down with an hour of my email , but amazed how someone can get away with posting so many fake ads. Think we should bring back some of our English medieval punishments , thief’s used to have hands chopped off , these scum deserve having a few bits chopped off , not just hands .
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10 hours ago, Elpad said:
Elpad , your at it again , nice !
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Had them on Ruby for over a year no issues
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6 hours ago, MrEarl said:
WOW WEEE!!! Pretty in red!!! So are we going to be told more about this model. Be reminded fellers, click the photo's to make larger.
Tatyana,single , 26 from Siberia , model, graphics artist friend of photographer, Nikolai ,on holiday in Cyprus .
she made me think of old Cold War movies , when dissidents were sent to Siberia , if the girls are all like her, not so bad.?
joking aside , apparently nice area , just bit cold in winter minus 40
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Posted on driving at least one old Buick , my amateur photos of photo shoot by Russian friend , here’s a few of his .
Ill excuse her for the finger prints ?
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1953 Ford Victoria
in Automobiles and Parts - Buy/Sell
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Good looking car , well done