starfire63

My dad's 87 Cutlass has those wheels, definitely a factory item cause I ordered the car myself back then. He let me order the car the way I wanted cause I couldn't convince him to order the Buick Regal T Type with turbo that I really wanted (but that's another story)!!

Dave- thanks so much for the helpful tool and notes. Payment for your time and effort is coming your way. Beautiful cars that you have there.

Me too, would love to have a tool available for future use

What's the idle speed set at? It almost sounds to me on the video like it's about to stall out.

for the suspension pieces, try www.rareparts.com. I haven't tried them myself, but I've read about them in quite a few restoration magazine articles. For the steering box, theres a running ad in the Olds Club of America magazine for www.powersteering.com, they say they do rebuilds and upgrades. Let me know how it works out, I've got the same car and potentially the same troubles someday! Peter

Guys and gals, I need some help. I'm detailing under the hood. I need to know whether the undersurface of the hood is supposed to be body color or black. Can somebody with an original car please let me know ASAP? Mine was repainted black, underneath is clearly body color, but I don't know if that body color was a repaint at some point. The support bars have been stripped down, those look to have been black painted at the factory. It's the rest of the underhood I need to know about.

can anyone tell me if the 394 is supposed to have a spring inside the lower radiator hose to keep it from collapsing? My engine was recently rebuilt, I was checking things and couldn't recall if my hose had a spring before the rebuild or not.

Any links to people offering front disk upgrade packages? Thanks

I have a 63 convertible since 1991. I've loved the starfire since my parents brought me home in one from the hospital when I was born! I've seen many original coupes, and the original headliner is a foam material, which is not being reproduced as far as I know. It is extremely fragile, and I doubt that it can be removed from another car intact, so you may just have to have an upholstery shop make one up of some cloth. The emblems are easy, if yours are in good condition except for the paint. Take em off, clean/polish, then get some candy apple red spray (the kind where you need a silver base under the paint), mask, and spray directly on the area that needs to be red. I did this on the grille and trunk "stars" and it looks pretty good. As for the covers, there is a template that fits over the wheel covers and acts as a mask for the paint. Many moons ago, I borrowed one from a friend and painted a set of N.O.S. caps, but i don't know how to contact that friend any more. I'm sure you could mask them if you invested the time, but that would be too tedious for me. I hope this helps you somewhat, good luck!