1969 Vip Cb Savage Police Car

Aidan1976 said:

Keep it original mate

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Thank You.

Cool Project

I absolutely love this car!

My wife and I were sitting and talking about why the ammeters that were always "blowing" when there was a higher amp alternator put on the system. Looking through e-bay I found an ammeter that was 40 amp and wondered if this could have been the problem. If so how could you fix it to handle up to 112 or so amps? Is there someone out there that knows a work around or someone to do an "up grade" to an existing ammeter? Being we're going to put the radio set up back into the car it will require the power from a heavier duty alternator. I think the alternator of the 69 Fury series was only 40 amps to begin with. Any help is appreciated. All ideas welcome.

I just started removing the engine from the 70 Chrysler 300 in the back ground in one of the photo's. I was expecting a 1970 440 that had a lot of miles but still an original engine. What I found was a replacement engine with the same stamp on the boss except the date. The engine from the 70 is 9T440-E 2 5 while the440 I got out of a Winnabago was 9T 440-E 9 11. My wife and I were discussing what the probability of having 2 engines the same prefix just have different dates from two completely different vehicles come into our possession at the same time. The heads for both engines are 4006452. We can't explain it. Maybe some one was looking over our shoulder, because if it had the 70 engine we were going to have to put hardened seats and stellite valves to deal with todays gas. Maybe because of the performance the car was parked for at least 10+ years. With these being 1979 engines(1978 manufacture) they are 8:1 compression, which is easy to bring up with 9.7 compression pistons to the 10:1 ratio. What do you guy's think ?

Jim Kolenovsky said:

My wife and I are having a discussion about the paint color for CB Savage. She wants to paint it a Candy Apple Red. While I would like to keep it in its plain white wrapper just like the song. What is the opinion out there? Paint me curious.

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Keep it original. That is a very unique car that you have there. Plus painting it a non-original hue would just hurt its resale value down the track (plus a candy apple red is simply out of place on this car).

I think I have seen where someone has done a set of trim molding clips on a 3D printer. I was wondering if some one could help me find this person so I might buy some clips from him. would appreciate the help.

Jim Kolenovsky said:

My wife and I are having a discussion about the paint color for CB Savage. She wants to paint it a Candy Apple Red. While I would like to keep it in its plain white wrapper just like the song. What is the opinion out there? Paint me curious.

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I completely agree with Aidan! Would be a big mistake to change color on this historic car.

Jim Kolenovsky said:

It's funny no one has commented on the child proof locks from 1969. I guess that I'm the only one that didn't know they existed and had never seen any.

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I was hoping you would tell us about them. How do they operate?

Are you planning on parting the 1970 300 ? I would be interested in some trim parts and maybe interior items.