Little by little, starting to look like not much happened here. And so the wait for parts continues........

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I have been lucky enough that a FEW parts rolled in. I cleaned up what looks to be the original General Jet Air II spare tire. There seems to be no information on decoding these stamps, so I am left to speculate this is original given the "5's" in the stamp. Mike V. was also kind enough to lend a hand with the information on these wheel weights. Not the typical Micro brand weights but it certainly plays the part.
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The original voltage regulator is cleaned up and reinstalled...
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The only rusty part there really was on this car, was the radiator support (which is not unusual). The new one came in and is now installed. Still, I wait for the radiator.........
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First Class Job ! Great stuff

----Just asking and I can understand either choice, but are you going to squirt a bit of orange on the water pump?....Bill S

I keep looking at that too. He did such a great job of aging the engine after refresh in the '64...:hmmm:

I was toying with the idea on this car. I guess my decision was based on the fact this is real original paint on this engine whereas I was just trying to make the 64 look the part. Especially with the suffix / crayon mark there, I'd hate to put any doubt in someone's mind.

Happy New Year Tim,

It’s a valid question about a possible light squirt of orange, but I’d leave it for the next owner to decide.

What you see is what it is …… more transparency, which in this day and age is paramount.

Plus, it won’t ruin a sale.

Chris.

Finally, an update on the 65. After a 3 week wait for the radiator from Dewitt's (which was actually closer to 8) I could get going.

With a new radiator in place, I now could fire up the car.......to only run into a couple of other Gremlins. First, with the cooling system able to be pressurized, I discovered a small coolant leak between the intake and cylinder head. Sadly, the original intake gasket had to be sacrificed. That was met with a broken intake bolt at that spot. Can you say pandora's box?

Pull it down and weld a nut to the remaining portion of the bolt and BAM......out it comes!
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A new intake gasket, and reassemble. On the bright side, it allowed me to do a much better job of cleaning the intake manifold.
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The second gremlin......the carb. The idle screws were literally unresponsive, in addition to a nice assortment of leaks. Soooooo........off to Eric Jackson @ Vintage Musclecar for some love. Eric found the primary metering block to be out .027 and the secondary .020. A few other less significant issues as well. If all works out, I should have the carb back late this week.

The tires were a bit crusty to say the least........had to lube the beads (after they were broken) in order the get them off of the wheels.
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I'm sure some of know the drill of skinny bias plys.......not fun to get the bead seated. So ratchet straps and the bead blaster. You'd probably witness something similar when a person throws a football in by the monkey's at the zoo:dunno:
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Looking great, Tim. You're lucky the intake bolt snapped at the head and you could weld a nut on. My usual luck is to have the bolt snap flush with the deck...:mad2:

Surprised you couldn't get the tire to inflate with just the bead blaster. I've used mine a lot when I had the Pete and it would always expand the sidewalls on those 24.5 tires. I USED to use ether until I lost my eyebrows enough times... ever read Patrick McManus ?...Poof, no Eyebrows.