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Finally figured out whose estate this is and the Edsels were key to it. It's the Therit Winstead estate. Owned a big and successful local tree care business and served a few terms as a city councilman. Mr Winstead actually lived around the corner from me when I lived in Danville and there was often an Edsel at the house, as he had several. Wondering if that AA truck might have been one of his long ago business trucks. I haven't been to a live auction since covid started so I might go for a few hours just for something to do. Since it's onsite and no shipping things might actually go reasonable.

Especially as simple as that add-on heater is to get at. Ford dealers installed them all the time. Guess owner figures if it's not driven in cooler weather no need to repair it. 50 Cadillac wheelcovers? I'm not up on Shoebox values but a little time spent detailing and returning things to factory could result in a pretty nice Ford. Or if you like the look, drive and enjoy as is.

😬😖 There's one of those creepy crybaby dolls sullying that gorgeous GTO... I had hoped those things had been consigned to the trash by now. Apparently not. Lord those dolls bother me and have since the first time I saw one. The individual who popularized them should be beaten around his ears and made to sit and listen to Ralph Nader for hours.

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I like this little Burick. Missing its skirts, but it looks great without them. If you decided to leave them off you'd have to find a set of rear wheel opening mouldings from a Special Deluxe to balance its appearance. I thought all these had 340 engines but Standard Catalog of American Cars 1946-75 indicates only the four-door hardtop, GS340 and Sportwagon got that. Other V8 Skylarks still used the new-in-64 300ci engine. An elderly neighbor had a 65 Skylark 2dht that I maintained for her for about 12 years after I moved into the neighborhood. She had told her daughter to give me the car or at least first refusal upon her death. That didn't happen.

One of my longtime friends had a 400/automatic one when we were young guys. I think that car had a Slap-Stik shifter. His 18 year old grandson is getting into the old car (and other stuff, the boy loves anything old) trap. I showed Richard this car and all he said was "Lawd. Don't show Ank." Amazingly for a boy named after Anakin Skywalker he has no interest in Star Wars stuff. But old cars, old cameras, old stereo equipment and vinyl LPs? He's all over that.

Short notice but I just learned about it last night myself, and I'm trying to figure out who's stuff it is. There's enough old car related stuff it might be worth a trip. In-person, no internet bidding and no shipping. https://bhantiqueauctions.hibid.com/catalog/526302/hidden-treasures-of-downtown-danville--va-live-auction--3-16 Two Edsels, two 90s Corvettes, Model A stake bed truck, Allis-Chalmers G tractor are a few things I noticed.

All I know is every time I needed to replace one of those oddball screws the local hardware store never had them! Pozi-Driv and square-drive come to mind. I have a set of Harbor Freight screwdriver bits that has some of the oddest configurations anyone could think of. Triangular bits, three-pointed star bits, even one to screw a cup hook into a shelf. I had to buy a pair of clutch head screwdrivers about 45 years ago to replace a wiper motor on a 1960 BelAir. At least they also worked on some Holley carburetors!

The 396 that went in the bogus Camaro here came out of a gorgeous Royal Plum 67 Caprice 4dht. The lady who owned that car went in a nursing home and her son sold the car to the Camaro guy for $400 in the belief his mother's car would continue to be maintained and cherished. Camaro guy was and is an oily smooth talker, and known to often be an outright liar. Six weeks after purchase the Caprice was sitting in a local junkyard, stripped of its engine, transmission and 396 badging. I daresay selling its Chevrolet pattern T400 cut the cost of the Caprice in half. I won't call the Caprice a "donor car" either. It was molested to get its engine. Caprice was an outstanding original car. But it was a four-door full-size car ("them big cars ain't worth nothing") and the Camaro was a six ("a six cylinder Camaro ain't natural man!"). 🙄 The one that tried to sell it in early 2000s paid a high price and a lot of legal fees for his efforts. The one who originally built it got away scot-free and continues to build bogus Camaros and SS Chevelles. And y'all wonder why I distance myself from the "car people" here and their mentality.

Indeed it was, either 3-speed stick or Powerglide, along with a bench front seat. I've seen two 67s with bench/column combination, both automatics, one 6-cylinder, one 327. The six cylinder car met the fate of many Camaros in this area. It became a red 396 four-speed RS car in the late 1980s and went thru several owners. Long as it was changing hands locally nobody said anything. It's when one of the local Camaro cretins tried to sell it out of state for big money that the lawyers and courts got involved. It simply couldn't outrun its six cylinder VIN.

Oh damn that Bulletbird is too close for comfort... I wish I could read the dealer name on the invoice. The license plate in the garage pic is not a NC plate.

I have always liked the Delray interior. Simple, elegant, and smacks of a much higher priced car than a middle series Chevrolet. Could you restore one to this level for the asking money? Hopefully its museum time didn't let things deteriorate too much.

An Impala kit will work since LeSabre is the same GM B-body platform as Impala, but the stitching pattern won't be the same. You won't find a reproduction upholstery kit for that particular car. It's going to be a cut and stitch job at an upholstery shop, which is what was done for decades before the reproduction market started making kits for the most popular old cars. A good trim shop might have the vinyl in stock. Might be a little more difficult to source cloth seat material but there are companies, notably SMS, who specialize in original seat material. Might not be cheap but if you want accuracy they're probably the best source for the correct material. https://smsautofabrics.com/?gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIx6fN1bHihAMVeFhHAR2OkQJtEAAYASAAEgIGC_D_BwE You'll need to give them the TR code from the car's body data plate underhood. They'll send you sample swatches of the cloth.

Was the torque converter replaced in the rebuild?

Does anyone know what Buick Division's sales recognition award program was called? Maybe we can find out more about it. Google doesn't find much... Oldsmobile called theirs "Vanguard" and Chevrolet "Go-Getter" and "Legion of Leaders". Pontiac had the Knudsen and DeLorean awards but all of those I've seen were awarded to the dealership, not the individual salespeople. Once we learn more we should start a topic on sales awards, another interesting part of automotive history.

Nice enough Chevy, but that sure looks like a 1951 decklid ornament for a stick shift car. Interior will eventually need work. All depends how far you want to go.

Just a WAG. If like Oldsmobile and Pontiac it may be a piece of a salesman's award. Both those Divisions used copper or bronze pieces on sales awards.

There are several people on the Forums that I don't think we realize how valuable a resource they are. Varun is one of those people.

As stupid as the Commonwealth of Virginia has gotten over references to anything Confederate, I can imagine the fun I'd have trying to title and register this Chevrolet with the typical DMV drone. Wonder could you get that wolf whistle to do a Rebel Yell?🙂

What car and what engine? Too many variables for us to make even an educated guess without knowing what we're dealing with. Reminds me why I quit wrenching and went to work at the powerplant.

I see 50s Packard in the taillights, and a little in the grille. Cool little trucklet though. I've never seen one either, but it was the early 70s before many Opels showed up around here. One high school buddy had a Manta, and another a GT. I remember a couple of Kadett station wagons too, about time the tug of war ads with the elephants appeared.

As many nice wheelcover options as Chevrolet had in those years and someone put those ubiquitous Chevy Rallys on it.☹ Picture it with the rarely seen PA2's or simulated mag wheelcovers. And if those are 14" Rallys these will fit right on them!

Unusual, and could be a stunner. If that much rust through is visible, what's hidden? Northeast rust, not running, little to no aftermarket or reproduction support, and not exactly popular even in Mopar circles. Hard pass. But we should hope someone will take it on and love it simply for the sunroof and four-speed. For $1500, I think this might be not so much a flipper but someone who bought what he thought was a cool car and quickly realized what he had stepped into.

Try here. https://forums.aaca.org/forum/73-buick-riviera/ and the Riviera Owners Association. Think I'm right these cars have electric fuel pumps incorporated into the tank sending unit?

Depending on the engine it could be any number of things causing it. What car and engine are we dealing with here? Most common cause is low octane or poor quality fuel but you've played around with that. Too high idle speed is another cause, and some engines incorporate an "anti-dieseling" solenoid or dashpot to close throttle plates when engine shuts off. If that's stuck extended out and doesn't retract to close off throttle plates, it will cause it. And some engines, notably 1970s Ford 400ci, are just prone to it because of poor head design. Worst case you have to pull the heads and decarbon them and the piston tops. That can turn into a lot of MAW work.