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Looks great, I like mine a little up in the back as well.
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On 3/14/2022 at 5:11 PM, 65VerdeGS said:
Hi Steve,
In 2019 I bought a replacement tinted and shaded windshield for my '65 Riviera from Summit Racing for the stupidly low price of $130 including delivery to Canada.
The windshield was from Pilkington, and it came with the LOF logo on the driver's lower side. It was a perfect fit.
I checked the Summit website and this item is currently showing as "Unavailable".
I found this entry on the Summit website which indicates you can special order Pilkington windshields and side glass too. See here:
https://www.summitracing.com/search/brand/pilkington-classics/part-type/windows-individual
Or, call Summit and ask if they can order a windshield for you.
Hope this helps.
I did as well, 4th one wasn't broken in shipping. They offered a refund, I said no I wanted the windshield. I believe they pulled them after I finally got a good one.
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I teach a high school mechanics and welding class. As class projects we decided to make full size man/women cave pickup signs. I decided to make a small one of my Rivi. I cut it out with the plasma cutter, then ground it down. Then I masked out the silver area, and sprayed it with copper sulfate for the gold color. Next was the black outlines and clear coat. I then cut out the Plexiglas and installed the led's. I included a couple pictures of the pickups as well.
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Anyone else here a fan of the Beatles and nailheads?
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I always enjoyed the appearance of the first gens since I was a teen. A friend of mine bought a 65 from the original owner and let it sit for 10 years. The 65 has always been my oldest sons favorite car. My friend sold their house and was going to sell the 65. I told him 10 years earlier if he ever wanted to sell, I would be interested. ( I had never sen the car) He called me and I went to look. On the way there I thought here I am on my way to look at another piece of crap like I always do. When I saw it I was in awe of its original condition. He told me it would not start. I put points and condenser in it and BAM. I drove it and it was the best driving quietest solid old car I had ever driven. We made a deal that day and I have enjoyed fixing it up the last 4 years.
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Has anyone ever successfully reached through the filler neck and been able to bend the arm down? I can see mine looking in it. I replaced mine a year ago and only read 3/4 when full.
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What you are looking for is uniformity between cylinders. An engine with say 125 psi and even, will run just as well as say one with 140 psi. granted the one with 140 will be a more powerful engine. 20 psi differential between cylinders is kind of the breaking point to determine a problem. Your engine is unusual in that you have mostly even compression with one being higher. If you had mostly even compression with one being that much lower you would definitely want to find out why. I would recheck compression "wet" squirt a shot of oil in the cylinders and roll the engine over a few times. Recheck your readings. If your lower pressured cylinders increase to match your higher one, then you will need to re ring the engine. Hope I helped and not confused you.
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1 hour ago, 60FlatTop said:
One of my nephews has been driving Prius cars for over 10 years now. He also has an F-550 Ford truck and quite a few variations in between. He still has the first Prius he bought and a new one he bought last Spring.
The batteries are modularized and can be individually diagnosed in replaceable $250 units. He bought one used car that had a no charge condition figuring worst case would be a couple of juice modules. It turned out to be poorly diagnosed with the wire unplugged from the diagnostic port. The old "loose wire" event in the history of ICE cars.
His experience has been good and I would consider an electric. My thing is that I am not and never have been a one car owner, eggs in many baskets. My wife quit driving last year for health reasons and we still have 5 cars licensed. And I sold her Tahoe.
As far as I am concerned fire up that diesel powered earth moving equipment in Argentina, push the trees away and mine me some copper to hook up the the grid. Ship it on a fast freighter. Give me a tax bonus for throwing away my 10 year old ICE car and pour me a new 'lectric from molten steel, aluminum, and rare earth materials. Scrap that existing car and make me a new efficient one. I'm ready.
But I am keeping my carbon neutral '60 Electra and '64 Riviera. All the airborne carbon emissions from those have been incinerated during nuclear surface tests in the '70's and '80's... right before they noticed the ozone was depleted.
I kept my 65 Rivi, 67 Corvette, 70 Chevy. I will always be a car guy, but the EV for my daily driver is awesome as well as fun to drive. Saves the gas money for the classics.
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2 hours ago, Chasander said:
How many miles/years will a battery last? What is battery replacement cost?
Miles would depend on how many you drive a year. Lots of EV's out there with 250,000 and still going. Battery life is at least 8 to ten years maybe more. As far as replacement cost, the cost may exceed the market value of the car at that point. Same as a gas engine would in a 10 year old car. You could however take all the money you saved from not buying gas and replace the battery, or apply it to a new car.
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On 11/5/2021 at 4:51 PM, RivNut said:
So it it going to be up to us fossils who’ll still be driving gasoline powered cars to pay additional taxes per gallon to cover the taxes on gas that go toward highway maintenance. Will electric cars use the highways at (pardon the pun) “no charge?”
As an EV owner I do feel this is unfair. I also know that EV owners pay more for registration for this reason. maybe taxes by miles driven would be more fair?
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I have a Bolt, Funnest car I have owned in years. I am following this thread, at least until it goes south. It is amazing the amount of hate and misunderstanding of electric vehicles.
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Anyone looking for front power seats? Not mine, just passing along
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Bottom of the lighter threads off. unplug the wire and twist the outer sleeve with your hand. I "think" I removed my lighter panel from the car to do mine.
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This is what I have, the two with the fixed flanges on the head one is a little shorter than three-quarter inch and one is a little longer. The ones with the attached washers one of them is three-quarter inch, And the other two or longer. All of these have a 10 mm head. You’re welcome to them all if you think they will work for you?
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Let me go see if I have one... I will report back. I ran a shop for 43 years, still have buckets of stuff. Stay tuned
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Very enjoyable, thanks for sharing
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The JB weld if bridged like you said will last for years.
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Hope this will help.
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I did the large cuts. looked ugly as sin. Wished I wouldn't have. I ended up cutting custom pieces to fill in with. These picture show before I cut the pieces to cover it. Looks better now.
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1 hour ago, Riviera63 said:
Here are 2 pictures showing the trunk light and the mounting area on my 63.
Bill
Thank you, yep mine looks just like that. I think yours sits up in the opening a little farther than mine. I guess mine just has an extra screw hole in the deck lid for some reason.
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27 minutes ago, RivNut said:
My trunk light is a mercury switch on a clip. Tat does not look familiar to me.
This one is a Mercury switch as well. It was on the car, but it may not be correct? The wire was broke off. I soldered it back on. Maybe I have it mounted on the wrong screw? Does anyone have a picture?
65 Clam Shell Motor
in Buick Riviera
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Well it happened today, my clam shell motor gave out. Looking for contact information for Steve Lorenzen.