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Well DANG! Lot's of excuses asking the question when I just needed to READ your post. Sorry. I'll call it late at night or maybe smelling too much metal polish?

Mother Nature presented a damp dull cold day so continued with more cleaning up/out. I took the storage rack down after emptying it of the wood and such. Some is scrap and some has usefulness, again time spent sorting. Found a few more pieces I set aside and went back out after supper to shine things up. The one on the left looked worse than the other when I started but they both cleaned up great! One will be going on the Limited and the other saved/labelled for the Roadmaster. These both looked about the same before starting. Will have to check but believe the ones in the Limited now are good so these will be for the Roadmaster. As the night got on I only did one of the seat panels as my arm was starting to ache... Must be the dampness? A trip to the scrapper will be on the schedule tomorrow if the rain goes away and maybe a small fire for the scrap wood too.

Nice job on the fuse block Lance. I'm going to have to do the one for the Limited and have the harness from the Roadmaster out in storage which likely needs cleaning up too. Can't hurt right? The linkage looks great! You say you painted it, can I ask what with and the colour? My screen doesn't show it well. Doug

Made enough progress in the garage the last few days to finally see the front and back bumper for my Limited. Took a rag and some polish to them. Eventually they will mate back up to the car but for now that garage door needs to be installed first.

Squeezed a trip out to the container today and got through things that were needing to be moved and thrown out. It's looking better now and feel like I'm finally making some progress for the first time. Moving that card table and things under it I was able to see the bumpers for the Limited. They needed some attention so grabbed my wonder polish and went at them both tonight what I could reach with the radio turned up. The rear bumper is going to require more work but will see if I can't get it looking presentable with some more effort. The garage is a far cry from what I let it get to over the years. Moving along... Anyone want an electric Organ?

Finally dug out the back of the garage in preparation with putting in another overhead garage door to access the pad behind which will become the addition I need to house three of my cars leaving me room to work on the Limited. WHAT A CHORE! Gathering, marking and packing parts in selected bins, then moving out to storage is a process. This is only temporary and can't thank my friend enough for it's use! At this point need to measure twice (maybe three times?) and cut once. Found this sign in the mess and hung it up as I thought it was appropriate. LOL

Further to my earlier post on my '51 Nash, I found this in a box Dad had saved and blew it up. The year was 1975 while on a Club Mystery Run.

Spent most of the weekend between lawn work and sorting through stuff in the garage but no pictures as it was pretty boring stuff. I did however come across this sign which I hung up as I felt it is pretty accurate. Earlier this evening I came across a box that I realised it was one Dad had put together but I placed it in the garage after he passed. Some of the literature I found was the monthly Bulletin's from the local Car Club he belonged to, The Historic Vehicle Society of Ontario (Windsor). He joined the Club in 1966 not owning an antique car yet but by that Fall he had purchased the 1920 Overland from a member. On my birthday the next January, at age 12 he paid for my Associate Membership as was in the By-Laws to encourage youth involvement. Needless to say there were many fun times learning about the car, adult pride, dealing with repairs and Dad always took the neighbourhood kids (and the parents) for rides whenever he could. By 1970 the monthly Bulletin was becoming news worthy and they made room for members to write about their cars (no computers back then to post anything right?) so he put together this piece titled: You Asked For It. I know the thread is supposed to be about my Buick's but reading this again after all these years, Dang if this isn't the roots for my interest in them and why I can't come selling the car.

Yes! Also as in, "I'm sorry son I can't give you the keys to the Nash tonight".

Dad bought this 1951 Nash Canadian Statesman in 1968 with 49,000 miles showing and with only one winters driving. Still have it today, original paint, original upholstery showing 99,700 miles. (No winter driving either.)

The next step with the garage was to cut off the plastic vapour barrier and remove the insulation. With that completed I started next on removing the outlet and the supply wire under the window after isolating the circuit. We bought this place in 1983 and the garage was bare walls with an overhead light bulb and one outlet. Wanting a warm place to work on my cars I did the wiring and insulation then panelled it myself. I was surprised to see a price tag still on the back of this outlet. I'll bet they are a bit more now. I want to save the window for the back in the new addition so attempted to remove the inside trim hoping to save it but naturally it cracked and split badly. New trim isn't a big deal but would have kept it looking more original. The blue paint and tape is the approximate size of the new overhead door 9 ft wide by 7 ft high. I have a bit more cleanup behind me before the contractor has sufficient room to work in side. If he stays on schedule (weather isn't co-operating..) he hopes to start on November 2nd. Like me, he hates deadlines too!

Not having planned on a back door in the first place I hung a board from the ceiling for some wood and trim that would be up out of the way and off a shelf but after doing some measuring found it was too low and going to interfere with the opened door and hardware so... Sort, throw out and discover was fun. Especially finding a mouse or two had chewed up some of that styrofoam! A pleasant surprise was finding the rocker panels. Unfortunately out of all you see there I will only have one good set that will go on the Limited. There is one decent one that will be marked for the Roadmaster but the rest have holes where someone (not me) drilled out and put screws into the body rather than replace the clips that hold them onto the body. Not sure if they can be welding up and polished or not but worst case I'll temporarily use the best one I have to use on the Roadmaster. (It's going to awhile down the road for her anyway...) Once things were out I took apart the brackets and reattached the plastic with tape first as the staples were occasionally pulling through with the weight of the insulation. Today's objective is, on this rainy day, to disconnect that wall plug, remove the power wire under the window and take out the box, placing it further to the left of the door. Will see how my day goes but might remove the insulation and put it in large industrial garbage bags. I still have room out at the storage unit which will and can be used when the addition starts.

Thanks gang for the congrats! We are both excited to meet and hold our grandson. Yes I'm going to lead him down the BUICK PATH as best I can. Will have to figure out how to bolt a proper seat belt set up in the Special at some point... precious cargo you know. We are amazed what a flood of memories are coming back to light so want to not rush things too much and enjoy the new moments. Even my soon to be 93 year old mother is getting caught up in this as it is her 1st great-grandchild. My nephew and his wife are expecting very soon also so gives Mom even more reason to be around when those rainy dull days start to get to her. Meantime, More to do in the garage...

Some happy news today! As of 3:45 am this morning, my oldest son and his wife presented my wife and I with a 7 lb 11 ounce boy. The world being what it is we won't actually get to see him till they come home hopefully this Friday but we've waited this long, I guess we can wait a few more days to say Hi, we are your grandparents.

Trying again... The day sucked weather wise but being Sunday, did what I had to do. It was a total fiasco and will spare the details but three hours later managed to put a plug in and on the road again... The culprit was this big screw fortunately in the tread of the tire allowing a plug to be used. The point of this was that I lost that time getting parts bins labelled and out to the storage in hopes to get the garage cleaned up enough to remove panelling for the contractor to start the new garage door. Since then (being it is now Tuesday) I have all but two containers out in storage and pulled the panelling off where the door will go. I will have to disconnect and relocate that wall plug and wire which I can do myself and then will remove the plastic and insulation, saving for later use out back.

Glad you are getting her our Gary! She sure looks good. I hope to copy some of your pictures to my I Pad and show Fred how it is doing. I've mentioned before I'm sure at one time he owned that car but have not been in contact for quite awhile. Happy motoring.

While my plan this weekend was to spend every minute in the garage sorting, packing and taking bins out to the storage well, that went south in a hurry. Got a text Friday evening saying I had to cut the property Saturday as it had been held off for two weeks. that was five and a half hours taken out of that day but is was fairly nice temperature wise. Came home and did what I could in the hour and a half before having to clean up to go out for dinner with the neighbours. Was told to "winter up" as reservations were for the patio at Applebees... I get the distancing thing but the heaters were not on! Came back to the neighbours for a night cap (and too warm up) then called it a night. Sunday morning again was going to spend all day and... get a call from a fellow repairing my lawnmower asking if I could pick it up because he was clearing up jobs in his garage and wanted the space for snow blowers he promised to have ready for customers. Not a big issue as he is two blocks away. I straightened up and loaded it in the trailer then proceeded on to the garage where the Special is to drop it and the trailer off for my son to use for cleanup to the dump on Monday. Not long after making a turn I hear and feel a rumbling from the truck. Pulled over and the right rear tire is FLAT! Since I was close to my mechanic and figured his paved lot was safer to jack the truck up I threw on the 4 ways and took my time. What the HEY? Trying to upload pictures and received this. Sorry, an unknown server error occurred when uploading this file. Please contact us for assistance. OK

Today marks a bit of a milestone seeing this morning my thread has reached 95,000 views. I guess there has been enough interest to at least entertain you. It has helped a lot by posting words and pictures to keep me moving forward and want to thank everyone that has been following along. With the drastic changes having taken place over the years with our local Car Club, these Forums have truly been a wonderful support. Thank you so much BCA and AACA for all your hard work keeping this available to us. 👍 Doug

Just ending a late night but happy with the progress. I managed to clear and sort items from the upper shelf and some things on the lower one identifying and placing in the appropriate bins. Was able to make a trip out to the storage container before supper and went back at it after dinner till now. With the shelf down it was a process to deal with the lower shelf items but have a few bins yet that can be used. Just a sneak preview of some of the things locked safely in the tool box. Moving along...

Sorry Keith, the oldest one I have shows 1975 and then only about 8 pages of mixed models. Believe me when I say I'd be happy to give one to you for postage if I had it or use that as an excuse for a road trip to come up and visit but...

Yes on both counts! History is repeating itself as my dad did the same thing with his collection/cars. Guess it's the seed not falling too far from the tree theory...

Attacked a mess on one shelf first of something that leaked and was quite sticky and second, found these computer boxes that were there when I bought the place in 1983. Knowing the previous owner worked at the Chrysler plant here imagine they are of 1982 vintage and miraculously walked out the gate to his then garage. By the looks of them imagine people collecting/restoring 80's Chrysler products are going to have a hard time finding these in good condition. Those were tough years with the Lean Burn systems acting up a lot (ask me how I know). Anybody think these books would be of any value to anyone? There is lots of detail and part numbers in them. There are 12 books the oldest being 1975 to 1982 some covering Chrysler, Dodge, Plymouth,Ford, Merc, Lincoln & International besides the grouping you see on the book I posted. Would appreciate feed back on these otherwise they are going to the recycle bin. With another night I might be ready to pull the white shelf off the wall and remove the red lower on to my shed till ready to put back in place.

Wow! Sounds like the same thing with those ball joints for '57. Makes one wonder why there was no standardisation to save money doesn't it?

A bit more effort made yesterday after work. Before taking out for storage I listed things and put the sheet in a sheet protector to avoid having to dig into the container again. I then marked the lids for each car. It should help the boys some day... Made a trip for those big containers and a few other things I'm going to sell at a yard sale over at the Special garage. It's coming along. At least my wife knows where I am (for the most part). Maybe by next weekend I can call the contractor and have him inspect the situation to get a starting date...

Even if '58's are the same Lance, I can't help you this time as they went with the car. Here is a not so clear picture if that helps you at all. Here also are a few pictures of the Special convertible that you might be able to find and adapt. Goood Luck there.