Janice's 1974 Persian Lime Firemist Eldo Convertible

[MaR]

Let me know when you have them.  Every one I've ever touched in a yard crumbles in my hands.

I have two nice flexible ones I got from the junkyard and I bought an NOS one that is crumbling...

[hornetball]

More progress.

Old Air Products built me new hoses using my originals as patterns.  This is now a catalog item for them.  The system held a nice vacuum for a couple of days so I charged it with R134a (note, I'm at ~1000' elevation, so 28" of vacuum is about all I can get here).  I needed to jumper the thermal fuse and Old Air Products VIR Eliminator pressure switch to charge from a full vacuum.  That's another nice feature of the VIR Eliminator . . . if I lose the refrigerant charge it will disengage the compressor clutch, probably before the thermal fuse burns out.








I got my font bumper back from the chrome shop and spent most of Saturday putting it back together.  It looks really nice.




Look Ma!  I have a face again!


Driver's side wheel cylinder started leaking, so doing a complete rear brake job.  Shame too, as the shoes that were on the car had plenty of life left but are now fouled by brake fluid.  Fortunately, I had replaced the rear hard lines back in the Spring, so they came right off the old wheel cylinders.

[MaR]

Now I'm going to have to buy some new AC lines....

[MaR]

I just noticed that on your car up where the firewall meets the cowl, the seam sealer looks to be crumbling away. That's a common location for water leaks so you may want to pull all that old sealer out and refresh it with some new sealer.

[hornetball]

Been enjoying the car.  It's a nice, smooth ride that gets a lot of comments.  I'm down to just a handful of odds and ends.  Project for last week was getting the Western's shod and put on the car.  Shook it down yesterday evening.  I haven't put them on a scale, but the Western wheel/tire combination was noticeably easier to lift than the OEM.  They rode quieter and smoother.  I think they look nice.






The centers aren't the original Western hardware.  They were a set that Honest John's scrounged up for me.  They look nice and fit well, but I have no idea what the original application was and I couldn't find any identifying markings.  Anyone know what these came from?

[35-709]

Wow!   

[The Tassie Devil(le)]

Gorgeous.

Bruce.

[chrisntam]

Ooooh, that looks NICE!!

[Dan LeBlanc]

Superb!  Those wheels really make the car!

[MaR]

Looking great!

[hornetball]

Mission accomplished.   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMeSNpIYMmM&feature=youtu.be

[MaR]

Mission accomplished.   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMeSNpIYMmM&feature=youtu.be

Awesome!

[DeVille68]

nice!

[hornetball]

Nothing caps off a restoration like a track session!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4243kYe8rE&feature=youtu.be

[MaR]

I hope you had the top down!

[hornetball]

I hope you had the top down!

Absolutely!  It was gorgeous day.

[The Tassie Devil(le)]

What, no passing?  Or were't you allowed to?

Boy, wish I was there.

Bruce.

[hornetball]

These were low speed "Parade Laps."  The car would need a roll bar or cage to run at speed.  Bruce, the car in front is a Chevy SS -- probably one of the last produced at the old Holden factory.

[The Tassie Devil(le)]

Thought it had the Holden Commodore look about it, with minimum body roll looking at it a second time, but then nearly all cars these days look alike.

Bruce.

[Matti R]

Thanks for great story and great photos! Small question: what kind of retainers or clips did use to attach the trim in the place in photo?