Richard1

She is 5'10" at 17. I taught her (and her twin brother) to drive in it when they were 9. Eventually it will be her inheritance.

Well, we got through covid, and my retirement with a move to Florida. After 7 months of paperwork, and 50 days in transit, my cars are now in the USA. They have gone through customs, and now waiting their turns at the Fl inspection station, where they only inspect in certain counties, and the closest is only on Wednesday mornings, so waiting my 3 turns. This was the day after they arrived, with my grandkids cleaning them up and posing. Soon you will see them in northeastern Florida shows and branching out.

In the end, it took slightly over 11 years to get this registered and tags. The tags were actually issued the day I was leaving Bolivia for my move to the US. So then, after 7 more months of paperwork, and 50 days in transit, my cars are now in the USA. They have gone through customs, and now waiting their turns at the Fl inspection station, where they only inspect in certain counties, and the closest is only on Wednesday mornings, so waiting my 3 turns. This was the day after they arrived, with my grandkids cleaning them up and posing. Soon you will see them at shows in north-eastern Florida and a few more distant places.

Well, we got through covid, and my retirement with a move to Florida. After 7 months of paperwork, and 50 days in transit, my cars are now in the USA. They have gone through customs, and now waiting their turns at the Fl inspection station, where they only inspect in certain counties, and the closest is only on Wednesday mornings, so waiting my 3 turns. This was the day after they arrived, with my grandkids cleaning them up and posing.

I never use anything courser than 220 grit, as it puts pretty deep scratches in there to get out with finer paper. If there is a high spot when I do the first sanding with 220 on a flat stick, I hammer it back. Usually 220, 320, 400, then 600 if I have it. Finally 1000 and then on the buffing wheel with white stick.

This shows the groove. not real fancy. Here you can see one of my hardwood hammering rods (I grind to the shape I want) I did not think about taking a picture of the screwdriver, but it was just rounding a mm or so off the ends. When I finished I ground it back to new. This was the front corner damage. finished

Resuscitating this thread with my latest work, as I had serious dents in two corners of my Corvair when I returned from the lockdown (4000 miles away). Apparently these were caused by my careless house painters. My basic procedures are the same, and written up in this paper (I will update that) http://www.widman.biz/uploads/Polishing_Stainless.pdf But with these being so deep and on the corner, I cut a groove in a wooden block to pound into, and since this included way out by the edges, I rounded the ends (slightly) off a large screwdriver so that It would fit better against the curled edges, and not leave sharp counter-dents. So this is the worst corner, as I found it on my return And this is the same piece after about an hour of work

But before polishing, straighten and take out dents and scratches. I've put it together here: http://www.widman.biz/uploads/Polishing_Stainless.pdf But my latest example is what I did a few weeks ago after a hour painter hit my belt molding on my Corvair, leaving it like this So I got out some wood, sand paper, and buffing wheel, and made it into this in about an hour: I had previously done these pieces when I restored it 13 years ago.

If you have the dented part, it is easy to fix. House painters did this to my Corvair trim So I took it off, got out my hammer, some wood, sand paper, and buffing wheel, to produce this in about an hour. The detailed procedure is here: http://www.widman.biz/uploads/Polishing_Stainless.pdf

The key to stability, as in all cars with a severe weight bias to the rear, is very low air pressure up front I use this, although the US manual shows 14 up front. Front 13 Rear 23

I think I've occasionally seen engines listed on this FB page https://www.facebook.com/groups/667997093300529 Just don't buy anything from the Renault Dauphine Restoration shop in Ohio.

If you need manuals, I have digital versions in Spanish and English, plus an owners manual in English, and a parts/assembly manual in French. My Dauphine appears to be a 62 Ondine, with the 4 speed. The original front seats had the recliner's, but were rotten, so I have Dauphine seats in it. You can see my month by month progress here: https://www.widman.biz/cars/

I will be bringing mine to Florida once I get papers in order for it.

Not much to report, as the pandemic kept me 4000 miles away, and many of the gov't offices were not operating, where I need my title and tags, but I did receive the emblem for the steering wheel from Germany, so that was the first thing I put on when I returned to Bolivia.

Years ago I pickup up a 1960 Corvair and restored it. Since then I've been driving it, sometimes as a daily, sometimes only weekends, depending on what's going on. The original restoration can still be seen, step by step over 30 months of work at: https://www.widman.biz/cars/ But now, while in the states for 13 months waiting out the lockdowns, we had our house painted in Santa Cruz (Bolivia). When we got back I found that one of the painters was careless, and two corners of my Corvair, plus the trunk lid and hood had gotten in the way of his ladder or something else. It still looked pretty good from 10 feet or so, but it was no longer perfect, with two ladder damaged trim pieces, plus 3 other spots damaged over the years, the damage to the hood and trunk, some little rock chips in the front cove, and some little nicks here and there from parking lots since it was painted 13 years ago. So I decided to strip it, fix those things, and repaint. So here it is. Same color, but added a pearl coat between the metallic and 3 coats clear. Plus a Graphene paint protection treatment. Here is one to the dented corner trim pieces and the same piece after an hour or so of work