Broke my 7UP Pop Machine today....

[dadsbee]

Looking great Wayne. So I'm guessing a po or the factory installed them wrong?

Well it wasn't me!! I've had the left and right sides well separated throughout this entire process. Was laying them out and noted the LH and RH and appropriate part numbers. So slight a difference, but the forward end of the bezel, the reflector is about an 1/8th of an inch further in and almost flush at the rear edge. If you stare at the picture you can actually see it....

 

[440beep]

Well lookie there, another corporate tax guy. It is getting to be busy season, at least here in the states, buy probably CDN too.

Quick rub with MAAS to finish them off.

Wind deflectors installed, as well as the lower windshield trim.
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That's it for this week.. have three corporate tax returns to have in the mail by Thursday!

 

[dadsbee]

2 out of 3 done and ready to mail. Pretty easy with no sales and minimum expenses. I know what the loss is within 90 seconds on them. Printing and doing their damn forms takes a good 2.5 hours. Airplane business will take me all day tomorrow at minimum...

We have 6 months to file after year end. I have until Sunday for them to be done and delivered. Easter weekend... they're gonna be late! Personal taxes in Canada are due April 30th.

 

[MarPar]

2 out of 3 done and ready to mail. Pretty easy with no sales and minimum expenses. I know what the loss is within 90 seconds on them. Printing and doing their damn forms takes a good 2.5 hours. Airplane business will take me all day tomorrow at minimum...

We have 6 months to file after year end. I have until Sunday for them to be done and delivered. Easter weekend... they're gonna be late! Personal taxes in Canada are due April 30th.
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I feel yer pain. I did 3 corporate taxes of my own last month. One is a holding company with no assets or sales, one is a holding company that charges rent for the meat biz and the last one is the meat biz itself. That's the biggie. Here in the states we have to file by March 15 for corporate and April 15 for personal.

Good luck Wayne!

 

[GTXDAN]

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Man she looks like new again, probably better than new. Looks like a full house. Only one thing. I would have got my *** chewed if I sat that wing on the bare concrete floor. I can hear them now (THE HANGAR FLOOR IS NOT A PARTS RACK)

 

[dadsbee]

I would have got my *** chewed if I sat that wing on the bare concrete floor. I can hear them now (THE HANGAR FLOOR IS NOT A PARTS RACK)

It's sitting on a rubber mat.... my boss is an asshole, I know better!

 

[dadsbee]

2 corporate tax returns done of 3 and had enough of numbers by 4pm. Installed the rear marker lights and then there's something really satisfying about laying down a, lunch box, assembly line Pentastar onto a fresh fender!

Passenger side. Tapered end to rear. Note the retainer also has a long and short tab.

Tab are also offset. Tab closer to top..

Left installed..

Right in..

Repro left, line Right.

Line

Repro

 

[Photon440]

That looks nice. I always like it when the marker lights are turned on, it makes the car look more alive.
Did you put gaskets in the marker light housings?

 

[dadsbee]

That looks nice. I always like it when the marker lights are turned on, it makes the car look more alive.
Did you put gaskets in the marker light housings?

Yes... gaskets are there. Carefully cleaned up the OE's..very carefully!

 

[dadsbee]

Windshield squirter assembly. I'd bought shiny new ones and then determined that the Black oxide is factory correct!

Cleaning them up so they're ready to go back in

Note... one hose clip mounts "north", the other "south". There is a screw hole and a smaller hole for the nub on the retainer.

Dan did a great job removing the inner fender straps without breaking them. I can't stand new "fresh" white reproductions.

Washer hose run and hooked up.

Wiper arms cleaned and ready to install.

Wipers installed.

Fairly rare, factory optional, passenger mirror installed with a new gasket.

Drivers remote mirror going in to place.

Looking back... how did we get here?

 

[dadsbee]

Blew all the dust and crap out of the rear quarters and window tracks / rollers and assembly.

Amazing how clean that she really is after 54.5 years.

Time for a lube job

Window regulator teeth with minimal grease worked into the teeth. Silicon spray on the plastic rollers and all the steel above the "dip primer" line sprayed with Krown. Note the original glass on the entire car, date coded 119, November 1969.

Figures. I lost track of how many hours I spent looking for these wing gaskets, that I bought 34 years ago. Knew they'd turn up after making my own from roofing felt.

March 5th 1990.

Rear seat upper panels buffed up.

Quick polish with detailer. Catwhisker ready to put back onto the quarter panel.

Catwhiskers into place.

Rain shields clipped on.

 

[dadsbee]

Cord seal time.

Ready for plastic barrier

Plastic on and tucked in and taped at the bottom.

Upper panel and door card stainless screwed into place. Door jam windlace installed.

Original door cards.

Passenger side door card into place.

Drivers side in ready for the rear seat.

Almost forgot the outer seat belts. One difference between 68/69 and a 70. Guess saving 4' of webbing per car added up to the bean counters.

Best vinyl seat and top cleaner that I've ever used. Lifts dirt right out of the grain.

Rear seat back in.

 

[Islandkent]

Looks Great Wayne!

 

[1 Wild R/T]

Auto Magic = Good Stuff..

 

[dadsbee]

Seat belts wired up out of the way.

Bottom seat in. Ready for armrests and window cranks.

Rear arm rest ash trays in Evapo Rust to clean up their bottoms.

Quick clean of the chrome base plates with alcohol and the arm rests themselves with Scrubbing bubbles.

1/4 glass door pillar seals going on. These are the originals that the car left Chrysler with in December 1969.

Passenger side door pillar/quarter seal. 2838464-R.

Seal installed.

Drivers side seal.. 28384465-L

Seal installed. Love original raw factory welds! The way it really happened in '69!!

Arm rest and window crank installed.

 

[dadsbee]

Same deal on the passenger side.

Quick test of the door jam dome light switches before putting them back in.

Wires back on, ready to thread the switch back into the door jam.

Hold the plunger while tightening in the switch, so that the wires don't spin around behind.

Nose jack cleaned up ready to put back in trunk.

Jack secured.

Spare tire and rear bumper jack and components secured.

"A" pillar interior trim cleaned up ready to reinstall.

Trim back in.

We're getting close. Lower kick panels and door sill plates and door glass to go.

 

[The Rebel]

Looking great Wayne. Almost time to take it out for a drive.

 

[dadsbee]

Todays piss off... if you read back 11 months I tried to order new Polyglass GT F60-15 RWL tires early last May. Universal Vintage Tire told me they expected some possibly in June or July but that they had no fixed ETA. Whomever I was talking to advised that I needed to pay in full to get a back order going, even though they had no idea when they'd have tires. I wasn't willing to pay up front and asked them to advise when tires came in..crickets after that.

Saturday night I figured I'd put in an order again, seeing I saw that some folks just recently got tires. Coker came up as showing only 3 in stock, no ETA on a back order for the 4th. Next up I again tried UVT, which took my online order and credit card information. This morning UVT advised that they only have 3 in stock.. hmmm.. lol

Guy advises he can put them on backorder and they MAY have some by late Summer Aug/September but can't guarantee anything. All of the tires that they did get in went to fill backorders from the past year. I said "so here we are a year later and nothing has changed. Surely I can't be expected to pay up front to get a backorder in process to make sure I get tires this time". He states "we never charge up front, only when and if they go out the door". FFS, I'd have tires if they'd done my back order last May.

Guess they'll go round and round for the 34th year.

 

[Fran Blacker]

Todays piss off... if you read back 11 months I tried to order new Polyglass GT F60-15 RWL tires early last May. Universal Vintage Tire told me they expected some possibly in June or July but that they had no fixed ETA. Whomever I was talking to advised that I needed to pay in full to get a back order going, even though they had no idea when they'd have tires. I wasn't willing to pay up front and asked them to advise when tires came in..crickets after that.

Saturday night I figured I'd put in an order again, seeing I saw that some folks just recently got tires. Coker came up as showing only 3 in stock, no ETA on a back order for the 4th. Next up I again tried UVT, which took my online order and credit card information. This morning UVT advised that they only have 3 in stock.. hmmm.. lol

Guy advises he can put them on backorder and they MAY have some by late Summer Aug/September but can't guarantee anything. All of the tires that they did get in went to fill backorders from the past year. I said "so here we are a year later and nothing has changed. Surely I can't be expected to pay up front to get a backorder in process to make sure I get tires this time". He states "we never charge up front, only when and if they go out the door". FFS, I'd have tires if they'd done my back order last May.

Guess they'll go round and round for the 34th year.

If Coker and UTV "Really" have 3 in stock why not buy 2 from each? Maybe buy 3 from one of them in case one craps out.

 

[eldubb440]

If Coker and UTV "Really" have 3 in stock why not buy 2 from each? Maybe buy 3 from one of them in case one craps out.

probably the same 3 tires