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SBRMD

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  1. What say you Buick Regal GS? I can see you're on the site, but crickets. Took the time to dig this out, photograph and post this for you. If you don't want it, fine, I will put it back where it was. But please at least acknowledge one way or the other.
  2. I didn't clean it up at all, that's just dirt.
  3. I don't believe it! I have one! This has been sitting on a shelf in my various garages since I pulled it out of my outbound '73 Century in about 1983!! It work fine when it came out, but after 38 years on a shelf ...who knows.
  4. My newly installed Steele kit in vivo looks just like Wheelnut's pictures.
  5. Seller sent me the following pictures. Engine number seems to be appropriate for a '38 Special.
  6. Not sure, the guys put that on the car before I could see the pieces. That shorter straight piece must be for the body centered on the rear window, linking up to the pieces that go around the top left and top right corners of the opening?
  7. That's a nice car, lots of value. The only other mentionable nit that I can see to pick is that the Roadmaster and Dynaflow badges are reversed.
  8. I stand corrected! Here's one.....zoom in.......she's getting painted right now. That is a brand new Steele kit just installed.
  9. The long piece is not mounted to the body. It is mounted to the underside of the trunk lid: the posterior parts of the sides and around the trailing edge. Sorry I am not near my car right now, so no pics......
  10. Found one on my phone: And now that I'm looking at it on the big screen, this photo looks a little washed-out compared to reality. Nevertheless, you get the idea.
  11. Buickborn, that's an interesting theory but I don't think so....I actually own a '52 Pontiac Catalina Super Deluxe 8 in Belfast Green, which was the special color for the top of the line car that year, and it is much different than the Roadmaster here. The Roadmaster is much darker and more green/less blue than the '52 Catalina.
  12. Hey David, I'm on the same page with you. It's a really nice car, with quality work. I didn't meet the guy who did the work, he had died and the car was being sold by his son. Nothing "wrong" but quite a few things not quite "right", just done to that guy's taste. I really did the same thing you did: thought seriously about it and at a lower price ($13,500! In like 1999.) but decided to pass and hold out for the right "original", which I fortunately found with 38K original miles, sleeping for decades in the garage of the second owner, a 100-year-old man who bought it in 1954! I'm not sorry I ultimately did what I did, because I wanted to start with just the right car and do it the way I wanted to. But I have to admit, as I see this one pop back up from time to time (and with ever higher prices) I kick myself a little. It was ready to use, and I'm still working on mine 20+ years later. My car is of course costing more than $13,500 to do. But it's the way I want it. That's the name of the game, right?
  13. Wondering where one can find the exact original. Have search regular retail spots like NAPA, who spec a molded hose but it's not quite right. Also checked with a certain old Buick specialist in NJ, where a jackass over the phone was not reassuring or cooperative about the one spec'd in his catalogue for the '64-'65 Special V6, which ought to be the same hose. Any experience or ideas from the learned? Thanks in advance, Steve in Mpls.
  14. I saw this car in person at the home of the late gentleman who "restored" it in Indiana in about 1999. He was an old body man with a yen for chrome, and obviously did the car "his way". Good quality work, but many things incorrect. Price was $13,500. I passed and eventually found my all original car. I have seen at least three ads for it since then, in different hands each time. Price in the Sherman ad is at least 3x any of the others. Different wheels/tires on it seemingly each time too.
  15. Hey Tom, Tell us the story of how you came to buy a new Riv at age 18!
  16. Good Morning All, I recently had my original moustache bar rechromed, and now am trying to figure out how to address the letters "BUICK EIGHT" embossed in it. They are obviously supposed to be black. But how flat? What's the right tone? And has anyone ever identified a pressure-sensitive lettering in the right font that could be used? To complicate things a little, the rechroming inevitably filled in the depressions a little, so they are not as deep as they are supposed to be. The below picture is from the net, it's not my car. Any pointers?
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