MarkV
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I don’t trust anything and I unplug both positive and negative cables from all garages cars and anything older than the 1970s.
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1 minute ago, rocketraider said:
Olds parts books usually call something like this "shield" or "deflector".
Appears to be aft of the rear wheel opening? Does it cover the area between quarterpanel and any bracing underneath the car?
The entire length of the car
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2 minutes ago, joe_padavano said:
I believe he's asking about the apparently rubber part below the stainless trim.
They are definitely factory.
The are to block the view of the various parts underneath that stick out.
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30 minutes ago, 61polara said:
It's a '39-'40 Champion optional banjo steering wheel. The color should be more of an ivory like the dash knob.
Interesting, I need a center for it.
I have had such a hard time finding parts for it, so it’s been sitting for a year…
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They are rubber mine have deteriorated so I need to get others but without knowing the name I’m a bit stymied
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These run along the bottom of my Seville, any idea what they are called and where I can find them?
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So this steering wheel came on my 1940 Champion, but oddly no other champion has one, what kind of wheel is it? It is old and id like to find a center for it.
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Rescuing them is all the fun!
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I’m looking for some parts for my 1940 Champion:
1. Brake light lenses
2. Hood release unit
3. Hood hinge/spring
still looking!
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Garden hose and old bath towels, wheel cleaner and some scratch off as needed!
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I recently dug my early 1987 Corsica out of mothballs as it gets 30 miles per gallon. I have been driving it while I’ve been on vacation.
anyone else out there pulling an old late model out of mothballs and putting them back in service?
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Back in mid May I dropped off my Seville for smog repairs (yes I have to smog it). They had the car for five weeks then magically called me to tell me that they couldn’t fix it! Bear in mind they smogged it and have repaired my other cars. Oddly they didn’t charge me. They were also very rude. Turned out the guy I dealt with retired in May.
I found another shop and had it transported there I went by to check on this and saw this! The current shop is going to check their cameras but I highly doubt they did it.
The side from the passenger rear through the rear fender is dented and damaged. The bumper and fillers are damaged. The Seville is original and only has 38k on it.
good thing I took a photo when I dropped it off!
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I didn’t realize they started making these again. It was the only battery that could start my 21 Chevy well
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On 7/1/2022 at 4:37 PM, (S) said:
I have these that measure just shy of 11 inches. They have decent chrome and some cracks, one may be bent a little. Not sure if the shape is supposed to be an even arch or not. Shipping these is easy, the driveshaft will cost a bit. What state and zip code?
Those look like the correct ones!
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My grandpa and I worked through when he was 88 on the 21 Chevy I own. Of course he was from a much earlier generation (born in 1916). 86 is not what 86 was back then. Norman Lear is 100, Mel Brooks in his late 90s, Dick Van Dyke is in his late 90s, William Shatner is 91. These and so many others are highly active.
I’m a half century younger than you. My interest in cars ebbs and tides. I’ve had really bad spots in my life where I’m so drained I don’t have any time or energy to give the cars. But I always come back, it’s a passion!
Don’t do anything on a whim your interest will come back. Its when you refuse to spend a dime more on it and this goes on then it’s time to sell it.
I would also go see a Doctor too. My grandmother at 82 became lethargic, tired, etc. it turned out she had congestive heart failure! Thankfully they gave her meds and she lived another decade thanks to catching it quick.
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It’s another in a line of cute phrases that the populace who doesn’t really understand cars comes up with other examples:
original mileage- as opposed to non-original?
a/c just needs a charge- really? You mean a sealed system just needs a charge? Haha
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4 minutes ago, (S) said:
I have these that measure just shy of 11 inches. They have decent chrome and some cracks, one may be bent a little. Not sure if the shape is supposed to be an even arch or not. Shipping these is easy, the driveshaft will cost a bit. What state and zip code?
California 91791
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2 hours ago, (S) said:
I have one out of a '41 which is 2 inches longer if you don't find one. The book notes yours is 49 3/16 and fits 1939 also.
I may have the above grille molding, but need a measurement and or picture.
I’d be interested in the driveshaft
here is a photo of the grille area it’s the two pieces in the top middle
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I’m looking for some parts for my 1940 Champion:
1. Brake light lenses
2. Hood release unit
3. Hood hinge/spring
4. Driveshaft for overdrive unit
5. Trim for above the grille
And other odds and ends. Let me know if you are parting one out or know someone who is!
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44 minutes ago, TAKerry said:
Mine is about 5 years old and still looks and acts like new. I bought a cotton cover in 1982 for my then new firebird from Beverly Hills Motoring Accessories and am still using it on my '79 car! Def. got my money's worth out of that one!!
Cover or not, but if one is to cover I dont understand the logic, that a person will have a car worth many thousands of dollars, sometimes with a paint job worth even more and then not want to spend $200 for a decent cover.
maybe they are better now? But I wasted so much cash on covers used daily just to see the elastic disintegrate and the cover become useless. -
For in the garage anything works.
I don’t waste money on California car covers. Their elastic goes bad and boom there goes your $$$. Just buy a cheapie and replace it often.
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Car shows are boring and mostly filled with tri five chevies and mustangs. The cars that interest me typically aren’t at these shows:
Pre War
1940s
Luxury Cars like Imperial
mid-late 70s cars
80s cars
These cars are harder to restore for various reasons and typically are not worth as much as the more common stuff. Also it is a boomer controlled market for classic cars still.
I haven’t been to a car show in many many years except ones run by the clubs I’m a member of. And even those are rare and far between.
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On 4/27/2022 at 8:17 PM, Kristij said:
Is this one still available? Is it running? My car just took a crap and if I’m going to get a new one it’s gonna be my dream car and this baby is it!
Yes it is!
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It was my second day of 8th Grade. It was also oddly the only day my mom and I didn’t turn on the tv or radio before going to school. We are on the west coast so everything was already happening by the time she dropped off my sister who was a pre schooler and myself.
my grandmother was at work at 4am and saw it go down live in her mini portable tv and the initial report on how it could be an accident. She watched the trapped people jumping out of the buildings.
at PE class the other kids told me, I could scarcely believe them until we turned on the tv. In every class we just sat and watched the tv everyone watched in silence class after class until the bell rang this went on for the entire week we watched the footage of the jumpers and bodies being pulled from the rubble. Before the FAA grounded the planes we were worried that one was headed towards LA.
Adding to the tension My school was near a huge international airport we watched as plane after plane circled around also just several blocks away was a small municipal airfield and those planes were circling. Most were also being routed away from LA. It was dozens of planes and it took hours.
my uncle who lives in New York saw it happen from his window.
my father who was/is an entertainer was at an event that was shut down in fears of an attack. He ended up driving to every job for the next year raking up 120k miles as he refused to fly. (This was someone who flew in a weekly basis before 9/11). We ended up trading in that van in just under a year and a half (most we kept for 3 years).
having flown a lot (several times monthly with my parents) before 9/11 everything changed, people forget how people used to see people off right at the gate and how you would visit the airport and eat at the restaurants. So many of whom went out of business after 9/11. Of course there is the security, but I remember when pilots flew the plane with the door open to the cockpit.
9/11 is starting to fade into memory and resides in textbooks, I was kind of shocked to see the cable news stations showing little of the 9/11 remembrances and the reading of the names, even on local news they used to carry it. I would gather probably about 25% of Americans were either not born or too young to remember. To them it is like Pearl Harbor was to my generation, a tragedy long ago. Did people look at Pearl Harbor like this in 1962?
when I look at the footage today it looks so ‘old’ the clothing so out of date, the technology used, the cars driven, yet to me it seems like yesterday