The Centurions new clothes

Great googly moogly.....

:shock: uzzled: :shock: uzzled: :shock: :shock: :shock: uzzled: :shock:

:bglasses: :bglasses: :bglasses: :laugh: :laugh:

 

I'm speechless.

It's so pretty I could just :ball:

 

Hoser

I've rambled about reflections in dark paint a couple of times in this thread. Take a look at the hose in this picture. :eek2:

 

Can't get enough

Last one for now. The only problem is my bumpers are going to look crusty next to this paint. Maybe next year I'll get them replated.

 

Before

Here's the drivers quarter with the rust cut out.

 

During

Repairs made to the lip

 

After

Can you guess how productive I am at work today? :error:

 

:bglasses:

 

You're gonna be 'Fast with Class with Paint like Glass!' Congrats! It really looks niiiiccce!

 

Early Christmas present

Sean is finished. The car is coming home. I'll be polishing and re-installing the trim through the cold winter months. I'll also be trying to develop enough nerve to take it out and drive it.

 

Can't you just picture this in a parade with red velvet ribbon and a Santa in the back? Yo Santa, Nice Sleigh!

 

Puzzle

Let's wrap this up with a little puzzle. I have photoshopped this picture. Can you guess what I did?

 

Smartin wins the prize! Yup it's upside down.

Your prize is an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of this fantastic deal I found. There's a Nigerian prince who needs to launder some money.....

Here's the original picture. It takes 2 things to make a picture like this. A Buick sized hood and a great body shop.

 

Been a while since I've posted an update.

Got the car home and life came crashing down. I'll skip the gory details.

I worked on the car in my spare time, cleaning all of the rust from the interior, painting it with POR 15 and laying on sound insulation.

 

Here's a shot of the interior.

 

Wow, it has been a while, but I enjoyed reliving every one of those pictures. I hope whatever went off the rails in life is back on and you can complete your project. Makes me jealous! Looks great!

 

It's been a long time since I've posted here, but it's time for an update.

I added sound insulation and added the backseat from the Riviera to match the front buckets. I installed a center console from a 98 Park Ave. I realized that I could take the car on my upcoming vacation if I had a weeks worth of focused thrashing. I needed just enough to get it past inspection and on the road.

It was a close race. Each night I worked off of a task list and ended the evening by hunting up the parts and tools for the next nights work. There was so much I wanted to do, but I stuck ruthlessly to the task list.

The car past inspection Friday at 4:00 and we left Saturday morning. The car had been sitting for a while and it took a bit of effort to get it started each time. Restarting the car when it was hot was not possible. But, I could get it running and we took a chance on it. The vacation plan was 2 weeks driving around Maine and Vermont.

After struggling with the starting problems for a day or two I finally figured out the problem. The distributor cap and rotor had rusted up badly. When I replaced them it behaved like a perfect kitten. It started easily every time and ran smooth like a Buick should.

After the initial hickup it was bliss.

 

There was one other adventure near the end of the vacation. Driving along a dark road in middle Vermont I felt a strange vibration from the back of the car. I pulled over to look things over. I soon spotted the problem. The passenger rear tire was held on with 1 lug nut. The other four had snapped clean off. :eek2:

The Keystone rims do not ride on the hub of the wheel, they are located completely by the lug nuts and the oval washers. A lovely person we met during the vacation agreed to let me use her AAA membership to get the car towed to a local Chevy dealership. After a bit of pleading they agreed to install new lugs and steal 1 oval washer from the other tires to they all would have 4. It was enough to get rolling. I got a gift from the gods and found a pack of the oval washers an Auto zone.

The lug nuts broke off because the Keystone rims expand and contract with heat. Whenever they are off I have to retighten the lugs after about 100 miles of driving. I think I got a bit too agressive with one of the lugs and once it broke off the others began to weaken and eventually I was down to 1.

But disaster was averted, and the car ran beautifully. Each morning I'd have breakfast and lower the roof. The last thing before bed was putting the roof back up. In between it was topless happiness. :beer