This is outside my bandwith but this car belonged to a late member of the CLC and Potomac Region. I have been told it is an excellent car and well worth a look as the auction ends very soon. The car is currently up for auction on the Hagerty Web site.
https://www.hagerty.com/marketplace/auction/pc0gkuD110NtmxlIuVZXd
To read about the former owner and his cars see page two of the PR Newletter
http://www.clcpotomacregion.org/forms/CLCPR.2309Newsletter.pdf
How to ruin one of the best front ends ever made. If I bought that car, I'd take those butt ugly driving lights off & smash them. No... I'd sell them. Also, is there some issue with the rear springs??
Bob
In the link to Hagerty, scroll down to "highlights". It explains the springs were modified to give the car a sleek look.
Get rid of them along with the lights!!!
I wonder if the rear spring shackles flipped the wrong direction, if the car was lifted by the body, at some point in time. I think I remember reading that somewhere that they will do that. 60 Special
Maybe move the lights to the windshield frame? Add an LED light bar too?
Did you look at all the pictures? There are pictures showing the front and rear springs.
I think Tom Fender nailed it.
Bob
Well, I have to back track on my earlier comment about Hagerty, thanks to Tom Boehm pointing out the photos of the rear suspension. I have edited my previous post. After examining the photos there are many issues going on back there. I will list them here:
1) It appears to me that the springs were overarched beyond the point that they desired.
2) To compensate for overarching the springs, they added 2" lowering blocks between the axle pad and the spring perch.
3) To compensate for the length of the lowering block, they installed longer U bolts and looks like new lower spring pads.
4) Then for some reason they added "helper" overload shocks???
5) If you look at the rear view of the spring hangers they are not straight down, but shifted side ways. Either bad bushings or the overload shocks may be contributing to this.
6) I have seen this process attempted to lower a cars ride height and when you add the lowering blocks you have to be careful that nothing hangs below the wheel rim O.D. If it does and you have a flat tire, the lowest metal part may dig into the roadway first and cause havoc trying to control the car. The official term is called the "scrub line" which is the imaginary line under the car, where nothing hangs down below the wheel rim O.D.
7) This car would have sat a lot higher in the rear (2") had they not put the blocks in, which was a result of over arching the springs.
8) Last thought, I have to believe that the rear suspension of this car is very unstable in its current configuration. The new owner should buy new replacement springs, hanger bushings and original U bolts. Throw the lowering blocks and the over load springs away.
Thank you to Tom Boehm for pointing out the pictures! Sorry this was so lengthy, but I thought it was necessary to point out the errors that were induced into this rear suspension "mess". Obviously who ever did this work didn't know what the were doing and just complicated the effort from overarching the springs forward. 60 Special
I think it looks fine the way it is albeit without some minor quirks.