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So did they take the jackstands out on the grass, knowing they would be useless there, or did they learn that during??? The interior on this one, what we can see, looks to be a real selling feature. Seats look like the vinyl might still be soft. Looks like a good price on this one. It's...

I hear what you're saying, but at the same time, how is a guy supposed to know what's good and what's garbage? Price isn't enough - sometimes junk is sold for inflated prices, sometimes good things start out low to get a foothold in the market. In the old days you could count on NAPA - but...

While I understand/support not posting or pursuing a car if a member is known to already be on it, we shouldn't NOT post a car just because there's a possibility a member might be pursuing it. If we did follow that reasoning, we would never post anything.

Do you have the trim that's missing around the driverside grille-to-bumper area?

There are numerous products under the locktite brand, some are threadlockers, some are adhesives, some are sealants. Even amongst the threadlocking type, there are several - discussing the capability and after-effects is meaningless without knowing the formula #. I would not use any when...

Can you post a pic of the fender tag, and also the area of the roof that you say needs a patch.

@GOLDMYN I love the way the green strip on the tach matches the dash. Love the rest of the car, too. Wish I had the garage space for it. :(

Just looked at those last night, they are $1000 a set of 4. Considering reproduction 15x7 standard wheels are $175 each, that's not a bad price.

I noticed some of those things, but what I noticed immediately is that the proportions of the car are not flattering. I wondered if it was an air-cooled, rear-engine setup or something. The front end design of grille, headlight bezels, bumper, etc is fabulous. The back 3/4 view is not good...

I have seen diesel-engine torsionals break a transmission, but it always happened to a component that was loaded when torque converter lockup clutches were applied, and the damper springs on that clutch were not effective to dampen the torsionals. And when it happened it was always traced to an...

Mine happened from putting 235-60 tires on teh front of an 80 Cordoba. Hose rubbed on the tire. Apparently it took awhile of the right steering/suspension conditions allowing the rub (as I found out afterward). Had to do a hard stop and the hose burst. Hit car #1 about 30mph - pushed it into...

No, this was in pre-production durability testing, AFAIK no bad designs ever made production. What was durable for 1 MY of production might not be good enough for the next year. 2010 brought a ~50hp increase, and IIRC that's where the trouble started. We started cracking them, and they sent a...

If you are driving and get into some type of emergency evasive action, make a hard swerve with the brakes and put fluid pressure inside the hoses, one of them might fail. Might take years to experience such a situation, when you've forgotten all about this. If you've ever had a front hose or...

No, we were breaking flexplates during transmission testing, and every MY the engine torque output was increasing, and we'd find last year's flexplate wouldn't survive. So they'd scramble to try different shapes - circle, ovals, kidney-bean shapes. The GM engineers were trying to make a durable...

I'm not a construction engineer but this setup looks sketchy. Half the supports up to the roof are perched midway between the columns, and that steel looks like it is 4", although it might be 6". It's hard to tell if it was a barn that got chopped up and skinned in metal, or a metal building...

Not really any other way to do it. The speedo must be recalibrated to measure correctly - then the odometer reads correctly. Other speedos with the numbering on the speedometer assembly (like the 69-72 Fury) got a different silk-screened (?) metal plate with the appropriate numbering. But for...

Holy cow, Batman. An old-school tire, in 70 series, with a whitewall.

That's would be tempting if I wasn't so disciplined about avoiding trouble.

FWIW, I would not use that new flexplate. Those half-moon cutouts look to have sharp corners, and sharp corners make stress concentrations, and that's where things break. Whoever did the CAD design for that needs a little what-for behind the woodshed. Along with every engineer afterward that...

Both bumpers are slightly twisted. Passenger front corner, drivers rear corner. Poor paint coverage behind drivers front bumper corner. Body side molding inserts are missing and painted black. Front seats are incorrect but at least back seat recovered to match. This is the only improvement I...