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Old 03-18-2023, 02:49 PM
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The original carpet is in decent shape, just a little worn and sun faded, so going to do the 'redye' restoration. The jute back is in great shape too. This is the rear carpet and the tag fell off from somewhere...

The front carpet has a Nov. 1, 1968 date, while the rear has Oct. 31, 1968.

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Old 03-18-2023, 03:02 PM
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Here's the inner fenders with the brown-ish looking coating (cosmoline?) on the top and the results of a few hours of scrubbing with mineral spirits (did nothing), paint thinner (did nothing), then gasoline (did something). He even sprayed the cowls as seen in the May '82 picture. It took quite a bit of rubbing with gasoline to clean it off the cowls.

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Old 03-23-2023, 07:13 PM
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Fresh Palladium Silver paint applied this past week. The top of the dash and cowl and rear package shelf are getting painted tomorrow. It gets kicked out of the shop on Monday for reassembly. It's finally one color now!

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This situation is the opposite of body-shop jail...we only have a 2-week window to get the car in and out of the shop before the next cars need to move in, so it was a take it or leave it deal, and these opportunities come along once every blue moon. So, we pulled the trigger and accepted the challenge to squeeze the Custom S in, pitch in a bunch of labor and help out as much as possible to keep the progress moving. It's moving out next Monday or Tuesday, so 2-weeks to the day it moved it, so we have to move fast! It sure has been crazy, but it's been rewarding to see it change for the better...so quickly. And, of course, we are doing more than we originally planned.

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Old 03-24-2023, 08:53 PM
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We never noticed this before, but the underdash Kraco 8-Track player has integral speakers built-in to the sides of the body case. We've never seen this before, but I imagine this was one of their offerings if your car didn't have speakers.

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Solved the mystery on the internet...Kraco KIS-444 "Instant 8-Track Stereo With Built-In Speakers"...

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My 69 Executive had a similar (but not identical) 8 track player when I bought it. Interestingly the original owner was evidently worried about doing any damage because he mounted that player on the floor but instead of screwing it to the floor he screwed it into one of those tissue-trash bins with the weighted flaps that sat on the hump. He also wired it directly to the fuse block to not cut the factory wiring to the radio.

I couldn’t stand looking at it but wanted to preserve at least his intent to have recorded music by replaced it with a factory floor mount player.

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After we get the Custom S put back together, I'll remove the 8-track unit to clean it up and check out the speakers. I'm not sure now if it is attached to the car's dash speaker. When we played one of the tapes in the player, we just assumed the sound was coming from the dash speaker, not realizing it had 'stereo' speakers built in. We see if we can replicate the 'Stereo Concert in your Car" like the box claims...lol!

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Just found this online, Desert Vally Auto Parts, same basic car.

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The Custom S has been getting prepped this past week for painting sometime next week. The windshield and rear window were removed and minor rust was found at the windshield base that needed some metal work. Fortunately, the rear window channel needed only a little tweaking otherwise was in great shape. The rear window’s seal had a breach at the bottom channel and would let water in the trunk, but, fortunately the car led a garaged life, so no damage (rust) in the trunk. The entire interior is now out, save for the dash and steering wheel, so this is getting pretty serious for a ‘scuff and shoot’! The front fenders were removed and the back sides and inner fender wells were covered with something like ‘cosmoline’ that is practically impossible to remove, so more work needs to be done to get them ready. The original carpet (tags are still on the underside) got a first cleaning along with the original seatbelts. The front bench seat base is pretty ripped and worn (hence the seat cover) and we’re going to take it to the upholsterers to see if they can match the vinyl grain and pleat pattern. The seat back looks to be in nice condition.

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https://www.dvap.com/project_car/196...dan-69po7847b/
It sure is! I wonder what they want for that one and what the option list is...? Could it be another 350HO Custom S?

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Dan replaced the driver side motor mount which required the removal of the starter to make it easier to do. The old mount was crushed allowing the engine to lean down so much that the exhaust manifold almost hit the crossmember. We discovered the Custom S has its original 1107355 starter dated 8-L-1 (Nov. 1, 1968) as well as its original torque convertor with the '55' paint stencil. He also replaced the original heater core that had been solder repaired and had a slow leak in the core at a previous fix. Rear window, bumper and tail lights back on...a new tinted windshield had to replace the original non-tint that had a stone chip that spread all the way across when it was removed...bummer. Interesting to know that the 4-dr windshield is 1" taller than the 2-dr windshield. Making progress...

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What kind of paint did you use?

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PPG bc/cc with a little flattener to better hide the body flaws...and look older.

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It's been a couple weeks since the Custom S left the body shop and life promptly got in the way with an ailing elderly dog (15 yr. old Husky) and getting busy at the office. I snuck in a little time to work on it with Dan today and we managed to reassemble the doors, put the vent assembly back in the driver door, install new glass seals, install the new original-style package shelf (non-rear seat speaker), along with the rest of the interior except the front seat. We pulled the old Sun tach out that was friction-fit into the empty clock pod, then discovered it was set on 4-cylinder (no wonder it seemed to read twice the rpm we thought it should read!) and are toying with installing a re-pop in-dash tach that Dan had in his stash. The front sheet metal hopefully will go on next week...time will tell...

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That dash tach is not the easiest to install from my experience.

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It can be done by removing the glove box, radio and heater control. Lack of AC simplifies the job substantially but still a knuckle shredder to get the mounting screw on the speedo side of the tach-clock in.

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