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And yet the aviation industry continues to use 100LL.

So much for what our country is supposed to be all about. Freedom and free enterprise.

Your local parts store might be able to sell the battery packs to independent repair shops. The batteries won't be stocked like normal inventory as there are too many different applications, but I doubt they will sell to an individual as certification will be the rule. I retired from a major auto manufacturer in 2006, ten years before that, we in engineering became familiar with EV's. We had Hyper Mini's, SUV's and Vans (the government forced us to come up with and create the vehicles). I myself have changed a couple of these battery packs which are not hard to do if they are designed properly for removal. You need a proper battery pack lift jacking tray as the whole thing goes up as a unit, and of course a car lift as well. Looking at my four poster lifts I have at home; I don't think they are wide enough to accommodate the jacking tray and its lift. The jacking tray is a large 4-wheel heavy unit. R&R is 3-4 hrs. <3-4 hrs. R&R ->when I took these to the beach, they became a chick magnet

Count the number of IC cars on the road today. There will never be enough EV's to replace them because there aren't the resources to do it, plus environmental concerns and this is a known fact. That was addressed at Davos this past summer, but as Schwab said, EV's were never intended to replace them.

My 1976 Oldsmobile has never had a rebuilt engine, heck, the carburetor has never been off the engine! It still has it's complete exhaust including it's Cat. 47 years and 116,000+ miles. Tell me how that adds up??

The poor gentleman has learned the hard way that this scheme is all about getting you out of your car, any car, period. 😉

A challenge for you. For example, if you listen to 60's on SirusXM take a note of all the songs they play. Take the top 20 billboard songs of 1960. You will find that these stations only play and repeatedly play the same songs over and over and only play less than 40% of the top hits of 1960. When someone says they listen to 60's music on those formats what they are saying is they are missing 60% of the songs we really listened to. Funny thing is their selections are not indicative of where the songs were rated in the ratings of the time. If you think that's bad, the 50's are even worse. Try listening for a top tenner form 1950-1954. These stations seem to think the fifties music started in 1955.

Just some food for thought. For rear mains. Do not use a rope seal. Use a Viton seal. I deal mainly with Pontiac and there are two types of Viton seals for Pontiac one is the split type, and the other is single piece type. I'm not sure about Buick but if they have the single type I would use that one. The single type requires the crank to come out.

The other day while working in the shop I went to YouTube (I have a pretty good sound system for the computer) and brought up 100 Billboard hits of 1959. There are a lot of great songs that year. Two songs of that year really come to mind. The night we (me, mom and dad) finally picked up our new 1959 Pontiac Catalina that my dad ordered through the L.A. Pontiac Zone office, our street/race car from a clueless dealer who didn't know it was coming. Anyroad, just as we were leaving the dealership and turning onto Santa Monica Blvd. my mom turned on the radio and (Super Deluxe Radio with front and rear speakers) the song from the Flamingos " I only have eyes for you" comes on. A friend once told me that when a song makes you recollect something or place it's called anchoring. When I hear that song, it brings me right back to that moment. The second song, Avalon's song Venus, also reminds me of mom and dad and me driving out to my sister and brother in laws brand new house in that Catalina and all of us helping out putting in the landscaping including my little niece and nephew and them crawling around in the dirt thinking they were helping. They were though, it's good to be together. It was such a neat time, and everything was so positive with a wide-open horizon/future. Thoughts, my mom straightened me out on that "I Only Have Eyes for You" song. She told me that song was written and played in 1934 for the movie Dames and Dick Powell sang it. She knew the song so well because my dad took her to the pictures and first heard it. So same song, but that song anchors her memory to when she saw/heard it with my dad on a date. They married in 1936. Anyone seen the movie American Graffiti? There are a bunch of songs from the mid to late 50's in the movie. The movie is supposed to be in the year 1962. Back in those days there were no oldies stations. The first oldies station in L.A. that I remember was in about 1972. Point I'm trying to make is; in 1962 you wouldn't have heard half or more of the songs they played in American Graffiti.

Running Rich = high C0 and black smoke. Black sooty spark plugs.

Might have been, but the last year Buick used its Air Foil styling (1948) was the first year for the XK120 and XK140 started in 1954.

Antonio Carlos Jobim (Tom Jobim) wrote this song in 1961-62 and this is the original,1962. It is arranged by the great Claus Ogerman. It is one of the original Brazilian Bossa Nova standards. The song So Danco Samba (Jazz Samba) isn't a samba though, as it was written as an Bossa Nova. So Danco Samba (Jazz Samba) Rita Payes and Joan Chamorro Play this song below. Rita was one of the trombone players in the band playing with little Alba. Here Rita is at 14. Today she is married and has a little one of her own. Rita also plays with her mom who is a classical guitar player. 2014 SO DANÇO SAMBA... RITA PAYES JOAN CHAMORRO ...

Not a post war design. The styling feature you are describing is called "Air Foil Styling" This appears on some Buick models from 1942-1948 and unlike "Flow Through Styling" 1948-1954, which all GM divisions shared at one time or another 48-54. "AIR Foil Styling" is Buick only and not shared. Notice it goes through the high line of the front fender and exits at the tail end of the fender skirt. Skirts are essential for the proper representation of the design.

Joan Chamorro is doing wonders with the kids of Spain teaching them Songs out of the Great American songbook and Brazilian greats.

An angle voice for me by a trained singer. In Portuguese from Brazil, Gal Costa singing a Tom Jobim song. Wave Gal Costa - Wave - YouTube

1940 is a slightly bigger and wider car than 1939.

So, what you are saying is you want me to copy the service manual showing the specs I provided and show how to do the job.

Non ethanol would be better but more expensive. I have run ethanol fuel in all my cars including a 64 113 VW and a 65 111 VW. After about ten years the 64 started having a lean mixture issue. When I pulled the bowl plug which has the main jet screwed into it, I found a chard of something that looked like a piece of glass stuck in it. I then took the air horn off the main body of the carburetor and found this stuff in the bottom of the float bowl in crystal chards which were dry and digging it out 3/16 " thick deeper it was unhardened and almost like jelly. That was about five years ago, and I expect to do this procedure again someday, and to all my cars with carburetors (6).

I think there is a big difference between a visor you can buy for a car at an auto parts store and a visor designed by the maker of the car.

You must know 1949-1952 "A" bodies were styled like 1948-49 Cadillac and Olds 98 "C" bodies and 1950 Buick. ALL of these cars have "Flow through fender styling".

Do you mean like this?

My 1959 Catalina, a 13 second car vs a brand new (it had paper plates) 1966 Hemi Charger. The Catalina had fantastic 60ft times and hole shot the hemi by 3 1/2 lengths (good old 4speed hydro!). The Hemi went up in smoke-it was a 4speed stick. Two lane each way in Hermosa Beach 25MPH zone. Between 2nd street and 8th street no stop signs. Realized there was a stop sign at 8th. St. at about between 7th and eighth, slid into the intersection at 8th St followed by the Charger and an "all-white" 1966 FORD Custom Police car. It just so happened the police car was parked right next to the Hemi, and no one noticed because both of us drivers were from L.A. and L.A. police cars are black and white and all they had was a red spot lamp in front and one red light on the rear parcel shelf-no light racks. Speed contest, reckless driving, 80 in a 25 zone. First words out of the cop's mouth were " What the F++k are you doing in my town? and put your hands on the hood and spread em".

My dad's 40 Pontiac didn't have one. My dad's 50 Pontiac did have a factory one that he ordered with the car, and we would do 60-70 mph on the FWY, even with surfboard racks and surfboards. I've seen 55-56 Pontiac's with them and so 57 Pontiacs have the same canopy so would fit, also 55-57 Chevrolet also use the same "A" body canopy. In 1958 the shades are gone, so Pontiac (or GM) designed an internal or inside shade used only in 58. See below.

OK it's an "A" body Pontiac.

Deluxe Six Touring Sedan 2619