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I would think any competent upholsterer or saddlemaker could make that piece, especially given the factory drawing of how to make it. Sounds to me like someone just didn't want to fool with it.

That's why a set of factory service manuals should be among the first things you get after buying your old car! Not Chilton, Motor's, Glenn's or Haynes- get the FACTORY books for your car. All carmakers published them. They also come in handy when you find something beyond your capacity and you can photocopy the appropriate pages for the mechanic- who odds are wasn't even born when your car was made and will have absolutely no experience working on a car that actually requires troubleshooting skills instead of hooking it to a computer and replacing what the computer says is the problem.

Think your rollbar question's been answered up in AACA General. The drivetrains are actually pretty reliable if sometimes clumsy to service (alternator changeout on a 3.4 equipped model comes to mind). As pretty as these cars were, they had some body and assembly issues that, in typical 90s GM fashion, were not completely thought out or sorted out before the cars hit the sales floor.

What Craig said. But the basket handle was enough to satisfy federale rollover standards at the time! plus it had a certain "Porsche Targa" cachet about it:rolleyes:.

I found both seasons of HBO's "Carnivale" (2002-2003) on DVD a while back and there's good 20s and early 30s cars in that. Set in 1934 with a mix of "well-kept" and "working" vehicles. There's a heavy duty truck in it that I haven't been able to get the right viewing angle to see the brand name on radiator, but the radiator shell itself appears to be a pretty stout chunk of cast iron.

A 1976 Olds Chassis Manual will help with both,and I think the 1976 assembly manual is available- I know I got one for my 74. Both will be good reference material and worth the (cheap) cost. You may be able to find the pages you need online, but I know WildAboutCars now requires a membership fee to download the shop book info.

Boy- if the 62 I posted about in another thread looks as good as these do, I may be in serious Studebaker trouble! Didn't realise you could still get No.7 white compound. Thought it was a casualty of a DuPont divestiture. I've brought back many dull finishes using it.

They wuz a reason I left out the phone number:rolleyes: . I think I might call about this Studebaker. Shame the ad had no pictures. It's a local cell number so shouldn't be too far to have a look. Worst could happen it's rusty or bad paint/ interior, and all I'm out of is a phone call or a trip to see it. Then again it might turn out to be a pretty solid car and I end up with it.

This ad has been in a local shopper paper for several months and it's starting to make me think about it. I know Studebakers enjoy great club and parts support but looking for honest opinions on this car and pricing. I have not called about or seen the car. 1962 Studebaker Lark 4-dr. 259 V8, straight drive with overdrive. Runs great, fair tires, good brakes. New shocks, wheel cylinders, master cylinder and taillights. $2250. I've always thought Larks looked a bit stubby but anymore my mindset is a decent old car is a decent old car. If cosmetics are good I think it might be a fun car and best of all different.

Racing community uses DZUS fasteners a lot. Check with Summit or the like, or maybe even thru Grainger Supply. As I recall, the vendor wanted a chunk for that hardware kit 20-some years ago when I bought one.

John, with that wording my guess is it's for 73-77 or maybe later midsize GM wagons. Neat piece.

Give the animal rights folks enough time and they'll try to put Mr. Phil out of a job. You never saw such a ruckus as they raised over the Brasstown NC New Year's Eve Possum Drop. They claim the Possum Drop traumatizes our little marsupial friend, never mind the folks in Brasstown treat said Possum like royalty. I mean, after all, we're talking about a critter that has trouble successfully crossing a road. A leisurely ride down a pole with all kinds of possum delicacies in the box sounds like a pretty good life for a Possum to me...

Uncut Dawn dishwashing soap. As good a grease cutter as I've ever used. Once you get all the heavy stuff off brake cleaner or acetone will finish the job for paint.

If you aren't already, sign up for classicoldsmobile.com and especially 73-77olds.com as people there are always parting 73-77 cars. If you run into any difficulty registering at 73-77 let me know and I'll try to help. Not to diminish our Forums here but Olds parts are more active on the others. Pontiacs also used the swivel seats but upholstery pattern will be different. The way those seats are made the bolsters tend to split so you may have to recover any you find.

Which is why Oldsmobile and their HydraMatic Drive took that market and ran after WW2. The Valiant conversions gave a lot of amputee and disabled vets their lives back. Seems Chris Ritter has a thread about the Valiant system down in the library forum, and the National Antique Olds Club's Runabouts to Rockets magazine featured a car with Valiant hand controls this past month. It's a great read, and a great thing these companies do for veterans.

That wmaz website is impossible to view for the damn ads...

Notice his Madman Muntz hat? My favorite of all the Junior Samples skits was "Trigonometry". Archie Campbell was fantastic too. As a teenager I thought Hee Haw was the single most uncool thing on the planet (too cornball and the fact my dad loved it...). Now I can see and appreciate the sly humour that pervaded it.

David, the OP had a picture but looks like it's gotten lost over the last four years. I remember it was a handsome piece. I figured Steve M would have some insight since he is familiar with the older Oldsmobiles and the companion Viking. It's kinda like that "Oldsmobile Legion of Honour" badge I have. No one's sure exactly what it is unless it's a pre-war sales award.

Could be a salvage yard's ID or could be a replater's ID. After all, car IS 64 yrs old!

Didn't have to be dry rot. Those things leaked coming down the assembly line, which is why the vast majority of New-Matic Ride cars were converted to coil and leaf spring suspension under warranty. Even by the 90s they still hadn't got airbags competely right. Used to see a Lincoln Mark VIII around here that would have any combination of nose, tail, and side-to-side drop and raise depending on day of the week or if its owner had pumped up the system at the gas station. Pretty sure his compressor hadn't worked in years. You can check with some of the custom and lowrider suppliers. They seem to have better luck with bags than factory installations did.

Our trouble is there's no longer anyone around who was there and can tell us much about the Viking. Steve Moskowitz- you know anything about the Viking statue?

The key thing to remember is that almost ALL repro interior kits are made by only a few manufacturers. The difference will be the vendor handling the ultimate point of sale. I don't think you'd go wrong with either a C.A.R.S or Ciadella Chevrolet interior.

What got me was Velocity's abysmal closed-captioning. The bubble-headed bleach-blonde's non-stop yammering was bad enough; then to watch the CC in mangled English... I guess it was closer to Engrish, really. I was in me favorite Italian joint watching it with the owner, who is a car guy himself, so the volume had to be muted for everyone else. Now, the other TV showing different programming? CC was flawless, so it HAD to be Velocity's doing. As much money and advertising as goes thru a B-J auction, the closed-captioning should have been perfect.

Dang, that sounds like me as an OCA Zone director circa 1998-2001. When I realised that if I didn't get off that board of directors I was probably gonna pop the club president in the mouth, I did what any sane person who had been told he wasn't doing his job as a director would have done. I quit and didn't do anything! And then sat back and watched as the palace burned...

Double check. J88s had Jetaways which were set up to drive off the trans. The other 63-70 FSCs except for a few later cruise applications drove it off the wheel. Look close and see if you've got a 62 transmission in there John.