A Little Tinkering

Pulled Lucille out of the garage and took off the left front wheel so I could go back into the fenderwell and re-route the heater hoses and put some ties on the wiring harness there.I had to pull the inner fender panel to do this, but it's been so long since I did the brakes and it needed to be tidied up.So that's done now. And I also undid what I had started to do with the Start-em-up kit. No point in proceeding with that if I am going to sell her off. (Still kinda torn on that issue, but I think I just need to do it.)

Radio

Been having an issue with the rear channel on the radio where it sounds very distorted. I finally called Dan Steele and asked him how much he'd charge to go through it for me again. He wanted me to try a different speaker before I pack it off for repairs so I did that today. No distortion! So I'm feeling stupid that I didn't try this earlier, but then I reconnected the original speaker and... no distortion! What happened there? Well, I guess I'll just ride it out for a bit and see what happens. Maybe I'll replace that speaker just for grinns.

Hmmm...

Well I put up a classified ad on eBay a few days ago, and I had one person come to see it tonight... he brought his dad and brother. Had pretty mixed feelings as part of me would like to sell her and part doesn't want to. But ultimately, these buyers did not make a good impression on me. I felt they completely overlooked the car as it sits and only thought about how they could turn it into a DeVille with a $5000 interior makeover. Completely didn't get the steering and brake upgrades and pretty much didn't care about anything I had done. Talked about adding some kind of plastic chrome strip to the rear window reveal... I guess I should not be surprised, but I don't approach cars that way, when someone has obviously put some work into it. You may not like what someone has done, but you have to give a little respect to the amount of work that goes into it. None of them seemed particularly mechanically inclined as "dad" did not recognize the remote oil filter and the prospective buyer asked me what the master cylinder jutting out of the cowl was. I then explained about the disc brake upgrade and the dual circuit system... he seemed astonished. I covered that in the ad and, sorry boys, but car guys that I know would pick up on that right away. I don't think this car is a good fit for them.

Pictures

Washed her up and took some pix today:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/3ar9xr2

Price Check

Just doing a little poking around and I decided to check the price NADA lists for this car.

NADA Guide Pricing for Series 62 coupe.

I have no definite plans to try selling... yet. But the truth is, if I had to sell one, and I might feel the need soon, this car is probably the most valuable and salable. I like her, and I've just begun to get her into the kind of shape I would like one of my cars to be in. Put some serious work into her. But she needs more and if I had to, I could part with her.

Drive

Another parts run at OSH. Nothing special to note except that I noticed the very loud road noise this car had and if I am going do much driving of this car on crappy L.A. streets, I'm going to need to do something about it. I asked around about other folks who had done any major sound deadening projects and one person on the CML told me his experience. I'm going to plan on doing this as soon as I finish up the current Pontiac upgrades that are occupying all of my time. To do it right, I will really need to remove the entire interior.

Drive

[114310] Just went out for a nice spin today. Took Forrest Dog along. He loves to sit up and look out the windshield almost like a person. But now and then he has to hang his nose out he window for a blast of air up his snout. Car behaved very well. Still feeling slight pull to the left. Engine still has that chug at idle.