1938 Buick Century Model 61 - Restoration

[MCHinson]

Gary Wheeler is posting his restoration story in the Pre-War Buick forum. Gary's story has had a quite a bit of influence on me deciding to undertake a restoration project of my own. I can thank (or blame) Gary for his influence in this. Here is a link to what will hopefully be the story of my restoration of my newly acquired 1938 Model 61. I don't expect to be as efficient as Gary, but hopefully it will be worth reading.

 

 

[Bill3747]

Looking forward to following your progress on your new project, Matt.  I am a member of the 36-38 Buick Club and am finally making progress on my 1937 Model 41.  I also just acquired another future project, a 1947 Buick Special 2 Door Sedanet.  I can sure relate with your mouse problem.  When I cleaned out my new 1947 I removed three 5-gallon buckets of mouse nests.  Speaking of that 1947, I put a post in the Buick General Forum a couple of days ago trying to identify an odd item that is threaded into the exhaust manifold.  Still no luck.  Anyway, I wish you luck on your project.

Bill

[Gary W]

Matt..  Congratulations on the "new" car and Good Luck with the restoration!  

You have been such a big help to me throughout my project.  If there is anything at all that I can offer or help you with, PLEASE don't hesitate!

Sincerely

Gary

[DonMicheletti]

Restoration is a BIG job and Gary has been doing a great job. However his rate of progress it truly impressive.  Dont get discouraged if you do not match his speed.

 

"How do you eat and elephant.....?"

[39BuickEight]

I thought about asking if I should move my restoration to the pre-war section.  Mine is a little slower process than Gary though lol.

[MCHinson]

I debated where to post mine. Since I have a lot of AACA friends and serve as a moderator, I figured I would use the Our Cars and Restoration Projects forum since that is a slightly more appropriate forum for the discussion. I did figure I should at least put a link to the discussion in the Pre-War Buick forum. I must admit that my personal strong preference for 1937 and 1938 versus 1939 means I never took the time to read all of your discussion. I hope you get a chance to take the time to edit it to upload all of your photos since photobucket screwed up your photos. I would like to be able to go through your discussion and that would be much better with the photos. 

[neil morse]

17 hours ago, MCHinson said:

Gary Wheeler is posting his restoration story in the Pre-War Buick forum. Gary's story has had a quite a bit of influence on me deciding to undertake a restoration project of my own. I can thank (or blame) Gary for his influence in this ...

 

 

You're in trouble now, Gary! 

[LAS VEGAS DAVE]

I like reading about the restorations, I learned much from Gary's project and am sure Matts will be another great one to follow.

 

[39BuickEight]

I got about 1/2 of my restoration thread somewhat fixed this morning, but the weather is too nice to sit here any longer today.  I got the photos matched up pretty good, but some were tricky to figure out what exactly I was talking about.