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| July 2007 |
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July 22nd
- Recall at the end of May I posted a picture of an orange '71 SS that
was at the same transmission shop as one of my daily drivers. The
owner, Ed, saw his car on this website and sent me a nice email. I
invited him about our COCO show in June at Lash Chevrolet. His car is
incredibly immaculate. Also, Ed is somewhat of a accessory guru having
made several cool features including enclosed trunk, front chin spoiler, and
battery box enclosure, and core support cover. But hands down the
coolest has to be his clear valve covers. I mean, talk about cool!
I don't believe you can run with those, but once the engine cools down, you
can swap them at a show, and seriously stand out from the crowd. I ran
into Ed again at the Goodguys show, and he wasn't sure if he was going to
start selling them or just for personal use, but he did give me permission
to post his email, if you wanted to contact him,
email Ed. -Martin |
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July 15th
- One reason I like looking at restored cars is all the unusual
options that were available at the time the car was coming off the assembly
line. Too often today things are prepackaged, but that's a convenient
way to say that your choices are limited. At any rate, I came across a
'67 SS at our car show last month that had a couple of items I thought I'd
share. The '66 models came with a tach mounted under the dash near the driver's right knee, earning itself the nickname knee-knocker. It was such a bad location that the following year they moved it. Unfortunately, the only place on the dash it could be mounted was in front of the left turn signal blinker. So they put the blinker inside the tach. It you didn't want your seat belts flopping all over the place you could order these seat belt clips. Looking in the trunk I noticed this coat
hanger like tube protruding from the floor. The owner explained that
it was a vent tube for the gas tank. Just a simple inventive way to
keep the gas from getting too much under pressure, but designed to avoid
spilling. |
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July 8th
- Recently I've had trouble with my door handle buttons. They
were very stiff and eventually I ended up pushing them all the way into the
door. When I as at
Chevelleabration
I listened to seminar by
Trim Parts, and was told that my
problem goes back to the old adage "you get what you pay for."
Saving a few buys with some overseas parts is just not worth it. I've
now replaced them with USA made pieces.
It turns out that Trim Parts is located right
here in Ohio -- Lebanon. Think Kings Island near Cincinnati.
They will be having a car show/open house on July 17th from 11am-6pm. If you're in
the southwest part of the state you might want to
consider stopping in
especially since Super Chevy Magazine
and ESPN2
will be there. |
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