[73brewstersd]

The car looks great! Congrats again

[The Boss]

Congratulations Steve - that's a GREAT car!

[njsteve]

Photo glitch, sorry about that.

[The Boss]

Remember - a car cover is not an excuse to stack items on a car you wouldn't put on it without one!

[njsteve]

Originally Posted by The Boss

Remember - a car cover is not an excuse to stack items on a car you wouldn't put on it without one!

What if the items are other car covers....and it's an old Mopar? :-)

[tommie69]

Originally Posted by The Boss

Remember - a car cover is not an excuse to stack items on a car you wouldn't put on it without one!

I like that one Chris!Pretty car Steve,good luck with it!

[njsteve]

Started working on the car today after being away on a trip. Attempted to get her registered since the forms from Customs finally showed up. Of course once I got there, the DMV lady said I have to contact their headquarters on Monday, since the car is coming from a foreign country. (Of course that advice was completely different from what they told me the last time I was there a couple weeks ago when they said I needed the Customs form to complete the paperwork package.)

I replaced the leaky valve cover gasket and got the horns working (it was a disconnected wire at the relay - solved that one pretty easily). Click on the photo to hear how she sounds at the moment.

[LeighP]

Very nice!

[The Boss]

Car covers are fine, even that flashlight, but don't start putting intakes there and don't let the wife put the groceries there while she opens the door!

Just sayin...

[njsteve]

That's why she has the house garage and I am happily exiled to the detached garage.

It keeps the peace. :-)

[Formulabruce]

Grats Steve!, Looks sweet! On the grilles I used the exact same argent silver as the honeys. People say its "slightly" brighter than stock, but I doubt the original grille paint was enamel. My car just has a "stock" flavor" but the argent grilles really show off the honeycombs!

[Lloyd-TX]

Originally Posted by Formulabruce

Grats Steve!, Looks sweet! On the grilles I used the exact same argent silver as the honeys. People say its "slightly" brighter than stock, but I doubt the original grille paint was enamel. My car just has a "stock" flavor" but the argent grilles really show off the honeycombs!

BEAUTIFUL!

[njsteve]

Grant, the man I bought the car from sent me this original ad he found over the weekend at a local swap meet.

[njsteve]

I brought the car to my buddy's garage last night and we put it up on the lift. Lots of loose bolts in the front end, including the subframe to body bolts! At least the oil pan plug was tight. (Grant warned me about how many bolts he had to put back in this thing when he found it).

Looks like its going to need some portions of the rear frame rail on the passenger side replaced. The bottoms of the rails near the front spring perches are notorious weak spots on these cars. Unfortunately, the trucking company used the factory hold down spot in that location when shipping it here and it pulled the metal out of place a bit. This spot is a place where three different pieces of metal are sandwiched together to form the end of the frame rail. It holds moisture and here is the result:





And the broken-out section of the pass side rear frame rail from the tail pipe hanger holding the entire weight of the exhaust due to the broken universal rubber hanger that was carriage bolted to the floor pan above the rusty aftermarket muffler.





I won't be able to make an accurate assessment of the underside until I can get this thing steam cleaned. I checked with the local equipment rental place near me (the only one that rents the hot water pressure washers) and they quoted me $275 a day to rent the thing. JEEZ! Are the hot water sprayers really that much better than the regular cold water ones? You could almost buy a cold water pressure washer for that price.

[njsteve]

And here is the dirty bottom half of the car. The floor pans looks nice, with some red oxide showing through the grime in places.

[FunctionalShaker]

Originally Posted by njsteve

I won't be able to make an accurate assessment of the underside until I can get this thing steam cleaned. I checked with the local equipment rental place near me (the only one that rents the hot water pressure washers) and they quoted me $275 a day to rent the thing. JEEZ! Are the hot water sprayers really that much better than the regular cold water ones? You could almost buy a cold water pressure washer for that price.

That's one of the reasons I plumbed hot water to a tap between my garage doors. It's really handy.
That amount of undercoating scares me. Once you get moisture in there... Unless your lucky, expect it to be worse than you initially thought. Nice to find one in overall great shape though.

[Lloyd-TX]

Pans look great, Steve.

Your car reminds me of a '72 Formula 455 we inspected down here in Houston a few years back - for a fellow PY-er.

Dry pans, but seriously rotted rear subframe rails.

It was a hard-loaded Revere Silver auto/air car, which had a crappy black re-spray. Was located at an exotic sports car dealer.

EDIT: This was NOT Rick's car. It's another Revere Silver '72 Formula 455, re-sprayed black.

[The Boss]

Originally Posted by Lloyd-TX

Pans look great, Steve.

Your car reminds me of a '72 Formula 455 we inspected down here in Houston a few years back - for a fellow PY-er.

Dry pans, but seriously rotted rear subframe rails.

It was a hard-loaded Revere Silver auto/air car, which had a crappy black re-spray. Was located at an exotic sports car dealer.

EDIT: This was NOT Rick's car. It's another Revere Silver '72 Formula 455, re-sprayed black.

I know where that car is. Shhhhhhhush!

[Lloyd-TX]

Originally Posted by The Boss

I know where that car is. Shhhhhhhush!

Yep, and I've already been reminded to keep my big, fat, blabber-mouth shut!

My reputation precedes me, I'm afraid . . .

[Guilty]

Steve,
Since the car is in the USA right now, we should change your thread to Part Two. If you need an NOS rear console for your car let me know. Brian.