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Leave it as is and buy one these mini speakers. The sound is phenomenal and probably better... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CDW6DMQS

Jack Jones, from New Yorker commercial fame, died back in Sept. Never knew he sang Love Boat...

Here my new dream car, just as it is....

A gal of Valvoline Dex at wally is $20. A qt of type F is $28. I should have saved it...

I did use Valvoline... One of my cars the tranny was rebuilt before I bought it and it seemed to shift firmer than expected and assumed maybe there was Type F. Definitely shifts softened now with Dex III but never heard of the Citgo.. The other trans is original 120K so I will just stick with...

I always thought Dexron III was standard refill. Seems to work good in a couple 727's I have. In one I put in a small bottle of Lucas trans fix and it took care of some slippage I had going in reverse.

When I get around to replacing my 20 yr old Cooper Trendsetters, I'll be ready to bite the bullet for these. There around $315 a piece based on Milestar carcass and are available with the the thin double white wall from that era, few yrs earlier actually. They don't show them on the site but...

https://www.steelerubber.com/request-custom-catalog They have a few items but not always in stock. I put my name in for 2 dr belt line moldings a couple yrs ago but haven't heard back yet. They probably wait to get enough inquiry's to do a run...

...or the great covid reset companies have taken advantage of. Parts stores like Autozone have gutted themselves of anything from this era. With in a couple months last yr they stopped carrying valley pans even online. No brake pads even into the 80's. Back to the paint, something happened to...

I had much improvement using the Sylvania Xtravision H5006. Nice clean white light without the hassle and harshness of LED conversion. I did do the relay upgrade before hand for another reason and that didn't help the quality of light but kept the car from catching fire...

My trans chattered going into reverse so I took a crack at adjusting the bands and even played with the pressure. It didn't resolve the issue completely but adding Lucas trans additive did. A few thousand miles later it's been good. There's a 125k on it...

I went with the stear & gear modern feel unit on my '77. There's still an inch or 2 play. 35 mph range lots of correcting not so much at highway speeds. Need things like lower control arm bushings and running old Cooper white walls so there's a not a lot going for it. I don't have a benchmark...

The best I can get is one chirp and then if I wait a minute or 2, another. Horns work, the steering wheel switches are gnarly but I did get the one that didn't work to work. The new duralast relay doesn't work at all so next would be to try another OEM or some switches if any come up but one...

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