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Update, AACA member hooked me up, I got what I needed. Thank you.!

Oh man, that’s awesome…. Thanks for looking!

Hi, I need one brass door adjustment bolt that you loosen or tighten at the back bottom of a GM convertible door 46, 47, 48. I think they are convertible only, and the attach to a rod that travels 45 degrees to the top of the door by the top door hinge connection. I have the rod, I just need the bolt that screws onto it.

Hey, I appreciate the intel my brother!

The part I am worried about is how to stash bumpers in my overhead compartment on the plan ride home 😂😂😂😂😂

Man, so many webs accumulate the deeper you go in this topic

Is an electric car registration different than a gas cars???

I have solar panels which helps cost but I do run over sometimes and have a true up bill so I pay a good amount for my electricity and with the outrageous inflation in the US the cost of power is rising daily. I’d be interested to really know if I’m saving money not buying gas, or just evenly switching who I’m paying between gas and power or am I paying more with my electric car due to price of power always going up.

I saw pictures of the garbage bins Regan had them throw all the solar panels and stuff away in… like get this poop outta here hahaha

Ok this is what I needed, I didn’t even know AACA had a map. 👍🏽 From watching videos and talking to people who’ve gone before, I hear it is a challenge to get through the whole place because of the size. Thanks for the tip on cart water and chair. Sounds like I need to pace myself. My buddy says there won’t be as many opportunities because Europeans and Canadians can’t travel still so tons of good parts aren’t coming again this year. You think this is true? I’d assume people in the states still have tons of stuff I can pick through right? We need to get back to life and get together to enjoy each others company again. I’m so over this lockdown stuff.

I can definitely do a half hour drive… no problem. Thanks for the tip

Hi all, I am trying to weasel my way to the Hershey show this year for the first time, and I have been told if I don't have reservations already in place by now, I'm pretty screwed. Is this true? Any advice you can give me as a first timer? Am I really going to have to get a hotel 2 hours away because I'm late? Thanks,

Great points too... I'm not against progress, just stuck in my old ways on some things, as men usually are especially as we get older. Dont care as much for the "damn whipersnappers" hahaha

All your points plus this: What is the cost to recycle gigantic batteries and how soon before people toss them into ditches like couches or old stoves because they don't want to pay to get rid of them responsibly? I just watched a documentary on wind power and was stunned that environmentalist push these windmills, then they only last a certain amount of years and the expense to demo and recycle these massive blades, if they even get recycled and not sit in a giant yard and accumulate is a lot... what carbon foot print are the gas powered lifts used to get up to those things having? What's the carbon footprint at the factory to make these things? The trucks to deliver them? And to top it all off, these windmills are absolute meat grinders for birds lmaooo. The floor around the mills are littered with dead birds that try to fly through the blades. I'm told I can't have a steak because it's cruel to cows, but mass murder of birds is ok for the sake of the environment. The other thing I worry about is they will find a way to make a battery last a long time so people can go further in electric cars, but how dangerous will the battery be? Cell phones and Ipads blow up now occasionally. I'm not loving the though of an electrical bomb right under my butt.

Made my day hahahahaha

It does, but I still think it will be pushed back. Long distance driving needs will mean at least hybrid cars…

The battery suitcase reminds me of the first publicly available cell phones that were suitcases you had to lug around! I always want to travel light and be nimble, I’m not carrying a power reserve for my car… I miss Texas, I used to live in Humble with my pops, though I don’t miss duct taping the bottoms of my jeans when I mowed the lawn because the red ants would chew on me 😂 I’m so curious to see how the “no gasoline motor sales in CA after 2030“ is going to go. My bet with my car buddies is that will get revoked or pushed years out.

Didn’t think of non car uses.. that’s true. It’s not like I’m opposed to doing things smarter, more efficient, etc. I want clean drinking water as much as the next guy. I just don’t understand the complete demonizing of the things that helped us lead the industrialized world when the better alternative hasn’t been perfected yet. for instance, plastic straws… in CA we are getting rid of them to keep them out of sea turtles nostrils, which great. But now I have a PAPER STRAW that disintegrates after my first few sips of my drink lmao. the push for better works sometimes though, I remember riding in the back of my dads el Camino in the 1980’s (yes the metal truck bed with no seat belt) 😂 and getting gassed out from the unburnt fuel from his tailpipe. I’ve grown to appreciate catalytic converters.

What exactly is that???

You make me feel better about things for sure, love the points you make. Just getting scared because our EPA making it tougher to get parts already, but stupid kids rolling coal in diesel trucks and putting it on YouTube isn’t helping our case. You make me remember money trumps everything! Haha, great points man

Just musing on the drive home as I daydream about my old Buick being complete and I can drive it around, and I had a thought. Not that this will happen tomorrow but towards the end of my life and definitely within my kids life, the world will move away from gas cars. Part of the anxiousness to complete this old beast is the thought of leaving things for my kids so they can be tickled by driving an antique car around the roads filled with eye numbing same same cars. It led me to think, are these going to end up sitting in garages or show rooms someday and we won’t be able to drive them because we can’t get gas anymore, or worse yet, not be able to drive them on the streets anymore because they are not automated? Id like to think the powers that be would always make room for us car guys, but I live in California and from what I’m seeing in my own backyard, they don’t care one bit if my grandkids can drive my old Buick to prom or not. interested to hear opinions on where we are going with this issue. Im also open to investing in an oil well with someone who knows how to refine it in their garage so we can keep these old things going! 😂😂 Hope everyone is having a great day!

Right on, I’ll continue to make my own as usual lol. On the one hand I’m grateful these cars are such thick metal or my car would have rusted away years ago, but damn this thick Sheetmetal is making me work on the compound curved panels. I appreciate your input guys. 👍🏽

I have a question that I'm hoping someone here knows a little about so I'm throwing it out there. I am able to find some re-pop Sheetmetal for my '47 Buick 56C but what I can find and not find seems really random. For instance, the rocker panels. I bought perfect outer rocker panels but they don't sell inners (from what I can tell), but for the 4-doors of my year, they do sell inner. Is there a reason for that? Seems strange. Are the inner the same for the 2 and 4 doors? And why can I basically build a new 1947 Chevy coupe from re-pop Sheetmetal that's available all over the place (I'm exaggerating a bit) but I'm forced to grind away on my English wheel for things I need for my Buick? Anyone know of a place I can find hard to get Sheetmetal for my car? As always, I appreciate you guys. Thanks.

Hi, if anyone is looking for a perfect condition trunk lid I just saw this on EBay for $500 and it’s here in California. It has 23 hours left on action as of 2pm on 2/12/22… just throwing it out there for someone who might be looking. Thanks all

I wish I had a completed 55 Buick in my driveway! Haha, what good looking cars from that era 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽