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If you sent him the grilles and he painted them, sounds like his error for sure.

That's good clarification, thanks!

Here's a list of mechanical fans (mechanical means non-electric) which will include for clutches and non-clutched/direct drive: https://www.summitracing.com/search?SortBy=BestKeywordMatch&SortOrder=Ascending&keyword=mechanical fan Avoid flex fans. You might need to decide NOW if you would ever...

Can you cut it so that the speaker frame holds the vinyl down? Do you need to remove some under-foam also? Also, if there are no sharp corners in your cut-out, less likely to tear? I'm kinda surprised the way that ABC did that. Did the factory vinyl over the speaker holes? If not, seems like...

I did look at some long/slender red reflectors to install, to mount them with standoffs or something, like I did with the backing lites. But I was at a 'shoot the engineer, deliver the product' stage. I also looked for chrome bezels for the lights, but don't know which ones would fit my lights...

Glad to hear you are making progress, Craig - even as slow as it may be.

@300rag Yeah, that reminds me more fully, that yours were epoxied in place or something. In spite of all the hassles this gave me, earlier tonight I was eyeballing a set of 68 Newport lenses/housings I have, thinking about what it would take to convert them. And I don't even own a car for them.

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Summary: To throw a rough estimate at it, I’ve got $100 bucks in this for the 2 oval lights, the 2 LED chips, heatsinks, a 4-pack of white reflectors, SS clamps, and borrowing some loom away from another project. The polishing compound, sisal/cotton wheels, weatherstripping, aluminum scraps...

Final results (well, almost). Need to buff and install some trim and try to adjust the gascap cover so it aligns better. Closeup of the polished lens and trim. They look more impressive in person, in spite of some mild flaws and cracks. Not being 60-years-faded makes them really stand out...

At this point, everything above was typed while the project was ongoing, so I’m more verbose. The lights are now done (aside from a temporary routing of the main power wire from the kickpanel area, thru the hood hinge, and quickie-hooked to teh battery. While I was at it, I added an LED trunk...

Now with all of this done, new gasketing was needed, so I bought a set of reproduction gaskets. Yeah, no I didn’t, as they don’t exist. So I looked at some narrow self-stick weatherstripping I had bought for speakerbuilding, and had a roll that was suitable. Estimated some length by...

The backing lights were the complex part of this. I initially intended to use 10-watt LED chips and heatsinks (I had an 8-pack of each on-hand) but at qty 4 per light, the wiring got too messy and visible. It was also too many little screws, and all of the heatsinks needed drilled/milled for...

So on the heels of determining the best LEDs for the gauge cluster (here), the rear lighting also needed some attention. The harness on this car is quite odd in execution - it feeds the driverside brake/taillight, then exits the car via a large grommet-plug, feeds all the lights in the middle...

Awesome tip and perfect timing, Ross. I salute you!

This would be a hard sell at this price even if the headliner and doorpanel were perfect and there weren't bubbles under the VT. His asking price has eliminated all flippers.

Old news, but FWIW I saw Murray in Indianapolis at a swap meet the weekend of March 4. Might be why he didn't call back at that time.

How have you verified that the radiator is your problem? There are numerous other things that can cause an engine to start running hotter when in traffic. Could be a fluid-flow problem, an airflow problem, or a heat-transfer problem in the engine (excessive crud buildup, improper anitifreeze...

Good catch, I didn't notice the GM grooves were scallops and not ridges. Quest continues...

The Goog also turned up some other interesting ones. Here's 64-65 Buick 300cid V8. But it has 6 grooves in the center and the one in question looks to have 8. And the snorkel is different and indentations are missing. And 64 Olds 330civ 4-barrel: