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As a National Director, I can say that there is NO intent on changing the mission of AACA. Individual Regions and Chapters can permit modified cars in their local shows however. Nothing has changed and nothing is in the works for a change. Dave Bowman AACA National Director

A friend is going through parts from his grandfathers closed auto parts store and has many of these only identified as "K Plug" 1965-1968 manufactured by STATE. Anyone know what they are?

The registration deadline is March 15. We can change a car after that if needed. You will need to call the chief judge to change it.

The photo is so old it was long before he needed hair dye

You guys are trying too hard. It's our own Steve Moskowitz.

Sent you a PM

High optioned car

What a find...a secret admirer?

Sounds like points sticking in the voltage regulator causing a direct short from the battery to the ground through the generator.

Hospital laundries sell their old cotton blankets as scrap towels and are excellent white cotton rags. If you have a contact at a local hospital you may try there.

Show your car in any AACA National Meet or participate in an AACA National Tour and you will receive the Century Badge.

Don't look at the restoration as one project. Break it down into smaller sub projects. That way you will get small levels of satisfaction of completion all along the way. Viewing it as one project may find you overwhelmed with a pile of parts and loosing interest in the whole thing.

How well does the contour on the mirror fit the body? It looks to be later, I've never seen one like that on a 1949 Buick.

Matt I'm late to the game here, but have you adjusted the brakes based on the service manual with the correct adjusting tools? In my experience, a low pedal is an adjustment problem, not air in the system or another fluid problem. The shoes should be adjusted correctly before you bleed the system. I had a problem with failure on several 1965 Thunderbird (single MC) new master cylinders. We were bench bleeding them. The last one I purchased had a warning note inside the master cylinder should not be bench bleed. Apparently the bore is not machined all the way in and if you bench bleed, you will push the seal across the raw area and damage the seal. After I bled it on the car, I had no more master cylinder failures.

1941 Cadillac covers for the holes in the front finders if the optional fog / driving lights are not installed. This is what you usually see on these Cadillacs. Very few that I have seen have the fog lights.

You live in the heartland of AACA. If you are not a paid member you should join and join a Region. You're not far from the Hershey Region and there may be others closer. You will find plenty of support and local cars for sale that are not ever advertised. You will find willing people who will let you test drive their cars to determine what you really want.

Insist on flying in to see the car in person with cash in hand to close the deal. If the guy gives any reason why that won't be possible it's a scam.

Just a note on removing the temperature gauge. This is a mechanical gauge and the line that runs from the gauge to the block is one piece and a sealed unit. The line doesn't disconnect from the gauge. You have to pull the line out with the gauge. Rhode Island Wiring sells the complete harness for this car. All correctly coded and with the correct terminal ends. The relay you have a question about is the transmission kickdown relay. When you floor the accelerator, it momentarily shorts the ignition coil and permits the transmission to downshift to the lower gear.

Sounds like it may be a rod bearing.

If the locks have not been changed, the trunk key should be the same as the glove box key. You can take the glove box lock to a locksmith and have a key made.

Show and Judges registration is now open online. Thanks to the work of our National staff, your show registration can now be paid for by credit card just like Judges registration has been for the past few years. For those attending both shows, you only need to pay for trailer parking or motor home parking (and Ice Cream Social) on one of the two registrations not both. Trailer parking, motor home parking and judges parking passes will be mailed about a week before the show. Dave Bowman Chief Judge

Try again today. They are willing to expand the block as needed until the cutoff date of January 28. We will see what they will do if the block is full at that time.

Online registration is open for both shows and judging. The room block at Charlotte is being expanded, but book soon if you want to stay at the Embassy Suite at a discounted rate.

8103134947 is a strange serial number. Maybe a phone number? Post a photo of the serial number on the driver side A pillar and a photo of the body plate under hood and we can help you. The serial number will only identify the model as a 1960 Chrysler Windsor, the plant it was built in (Jefferson Ave, Detroit..I think that is the only plant where Chryslers were built.) and the sequential production number off the line in the plant. This production number is for all Chryslers built in the plant not just the Windsor. In 1960 Dodge Polara and Matador lines were built in this plant as well. I don't know if they had their own production number sequence or if they were combined in the Chrysler production sequence. BTW, there are no "matching numbers" on this car.

In the early 1960's, foam backed cloth was not used as a headliner material. If you have foam on a perforated backing board that is about 18"-24" wide held up by chrome looking plastic strips, you have all that was originally installed in the car. This foam was textured and painted, no cloth over it. Generally, it was an off white, but should match the color on the sun visors. To my knowledge, no one is reproducing this material. I have a car that used this material and was replaced years ago with cloth glued directly to the panels and needs to be redone. My plan, which I have only experimented with, is to purchase the foam backed cloth headliner material and rake the foam side with a stiff wire brush in a uniform pattern across the foam. It will be rough, but the original had a rough texture to it. The ribs you make on the foam should run across the car. Install the foam, cloth side down on the panels with contact cement. Spray the foam with the color paint you need it to be. I would use a SEM product as it is compatible with plastics and foam. Post a picture of what is there of the headliner and I can confirm if it is this style.