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Hi Larry, That’s a beauty! Must have taken some serious man hours to strip that down and varnish it up.

Jim, Nice car you have there! This car has been a lot of fun to work on. We have started the engine and believe it is in perfect condition. I am going to do a separate post for the first time drive of this car and will include the link to YouTube. That will be very soon. Thank you, Kevin, for the sheet metal welding tip! I do have some body work to do here and there. Looks like you have the doors lining up nicely on that car. Jb Buick 22, Wow — cool drawing! Yes, that would sure be helpful. Thanks for posting it! Today, I applied some linseed oil to spokes. The wood was dry as could be and soaked it right up. You can still see the factory pinstripe on the wheel felloe. Here’s the before… And after…

Hello All, Meet Buick # 3. A 22-45. It was supposed to be a parts car. But it turned out to be far too complete to deserve that title! I will go into more detail in another post on how little this car must have actually been driven. It seems as though the tarp covering the car became compromised on the passenger side for a period of time long enough to cause some wood damage. You can see the uprights to the body panel between the doors are rotted away at the bottom. So, we cut out the dry rot and critter damage. Then, we used a mix of hard woods to remake the components. We used what bolts we had on hand, but the proper square head bolts are on their way. Note that, from the factory, the wood strip that the floor boards rest on is a separate piece of wood attached to the side of the main plate that runs the length of the interior of the car. As you can see the passenger door threshold was toast. So, we salvaged it as best we could to make a template from it. The original sheet metal threshold (on the left) just happened to fit our first try (on the right)! I laid out the old floor planks to make the new ones. I replaced all of those seen here. Some of the front seat bolts had to be replaced. The others had some of the top threads broken off. So we lengthened them with threaded couplings and all thread. Reinstalling the front seat was key to getting the panel between the doors properly lined up with the contour of the body — the bracket that attaches it to the seat does not get it done. To get the correct gaps between the front and back doors, the seat had to be moved back and forth in tiny increments. Much time was spent here! If you look closely, you can see where we snuck a block in between the two pieces of wood that make up the panel to replace what was rotted out. (See earlier pic.) Some of the wood planking that supports the spring seat had to be replaced from rodent damage. Boy, was I happy to see all four doors on this car! It was very convenient that the sheet metal panel between the doors was rusted through at the bottom. This enabled us to screw it to the body wood on the other side! You can see the rest of the water damage to this side of the car with the running boards removed. Brackets are good shape.

Here is a pic of the dash on Buick # 3, a 22-45. I just got this one and have been tearing into it the last few days. It came with the gauge shown above. I will be posting some more pics soon.

Here is the one out of my 22-45.

Hello All, By chance does anyone have a pic of a gas tank gauge on a 1920 or 1921 Buick? I have seen a few different styles. Including some of the Rochester ones here and there. Thanks!

Same cap as on my 21-44 and 21-45.

Thank you to all who replied!

I’m thankful of the post. That car is beautiful! Body Color is right there. Spokes painted to match.

I have four of them I got by mistake on eBay. PM. Me if interested. They are in perfect condition.

Hello all, My good friend is a machinist and made these parts for my ‘21 Roadster. Attention to detail is amazing. I can’t wait to see them installed the in the car! Happy Buicking!

Nice job on this post Mark! How lucky that none of your spares have that all to common hole drilled in the top of the bezel.

I got a kit from the Carb Shop as well. Very complete. I was really impressed.

I used sticky red grease on my fan hub. Very little splatter with that stuff. My leather fan belt works perfect with no issues. I did have a simple line of stitching sewn at the seam.

Part two. I popped out the binder spring, then disassembled, cleaned and greased the clutch. This silver dot in photo marks a notch that allowed me to easily get a pointed tool in to pry the spring out. (I’m showing the shells disassembled here so that the spring is visible.) Reasembled unit moves smoothly and freely. I was was fortunate enough to have an extra distributor gear in near perfect shape! Happy Buicking! J