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#221
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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. Dennis |
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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.
Dennis Last edited by SD455DJ; 03-18-2023 at 03:21 PM. |
#223
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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!
Dennis |
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Wow, you guys move fast!
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Ken '68 GTO - Ram Air II 464 - 236/242 roller - 9.5” TSP converter - 3.55 posi (build thread | walk around) '95 Comp T/A #6 M6 - bone stock (pics) |
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Now you’re just showing off.
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#226
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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.
Dennis Last edited by SD455DJ; 03-24-2023 at 08:44 PM. |
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#228
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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.
Dennis |
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Solved the mystery on the internet...Kraco KIS-444 "Instant 8-Track Stereo With Built-In Speakers"...
Dennis |
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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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My Break Away Squad 1969 Fbird (Base, 350 & Sprint Cvt’s - 400HO & TA Hardtops) 1969 LeMans (2dr & 4dr Hardtop and a Cvt) 1969 LeMans Safari 2 seat Wagon 1969 GTO (2 Cvt, 2 Hardtops & Judge Hardtop) 1969 Catalina (3 Cvt’s & a 2dr hardtop) 1969 Ventura 2 Seat Wagon 1969 Executive 4dr Sedan 1969 Bonnie Cvt 1969 Bonnie 3 Seat Wagon (2 of them) 1969 Bonnie Brougham (4dr Hardtop & Cvt) 1969 Grand Prix SJ (2 of them) 1969 2+2 2dr Hardtop (Canadian model) |
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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!
Dennis |
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1969 Custom S 4 door sedan at DVAP
Just found this online, Desert Vally Auto Parts, same basic car.
https://www.dvap.com/project_car/196...dan-69po7847b/ Quote:
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1970 Lucerne Blue Firebird Trans Am, deluxe blue interior. Original Ram Air III, M-21, 3.73. Being built as a 4" stroke "434" with SR 614 Ram Air IV heads 1972+ Lucerne Blue 4-door hardtop "what if" T-41 Le Mans Sport GT/Grand Am concepts. Equipped with future 3" journal "455 HO"/"what if" prototype "SD 455". What if GM had continued production of the 1970-72 GM A body somewhere in the southern hemisphere? |
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Dennis |
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1969 Custom S 4 door sedan at DVAP
New to stock, Call DVAP quickly to save this car
1969 Pontiac Lemans “Custom S“ 4 Door Sedan **For Viewing Only** New to stock and we are still waiting on paper work, so this car is posted to “view only”. Price has not yet been set. Call with questions.
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1970 Lucerne Blue Firebird Trans Am, deluxe blue interior. Original Ram Air III, M-21, 3.73. Being built as a 4" stroke "434" with SR 614 Ram Air IV heads 1972+ Lucerne Blue 4-door hardtop "what if" T-41 Le Mans Sport GT/Grand Am concepts. Equipped with future 3" journal "455 HO"/"what if" prototype "SD 455". What if GM had continued production of the 1970-72 GM A body somewhere in the southern hemisphere? |
#235
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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...
Dennis Last edited by SD455DJ; 03-30-2023 at 08:40 PM. |
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What kind of paint did you use?
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#237
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PPG bc/cc with a little flattener to better hide the body flaws...and look older.
Dennis |
#238
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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...
Dennis |
#239
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That dash tach is not the easiest to install from my experience.
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#240
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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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My Break Away Squad 1969 Fbird (Base, 350 & Sprint Cvt’s - 400HO & TA Hardtops) 1969 LeMans (2dr & 4dr Hardtop and a Cvt) 1969 LeMans Safari 2 seat Wagon 1969 GTO (2 Cvt, 2 Hardtops & Judge Hardtop) 1969 Catalina (3 Cvt’s & a 2dr hardtop) 1969 Ventura 2 Seat Wagon 1969 Executive 4dr Sedan 1969 Bonnie Cvt 1969 Bonnie 3 Seat Wagon (2 of them) 1969 Bonnie Brougham (4dr Hardtop & Cvt) 1969 Grand Prix SJ (2 of them) 1969 2+2 2dr Hardtop (Canadian model) |
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