A delightful weekend doing odds and ends

[thehackmechanic]

Last year the preparations for V@V were substantial and frantic. This year it's been more odds and ends.

One of the center caps on the staggered Alpinas went AWOL. For $89 I bought the set of four caps with the 51mm Alpina logos from Coupe King. What a great set. They look perfect and they snap in tight.

My car hadn't had the 3.0 CSi badges on the back since the body restoration was done in 1988. Back then there was some rust on the lid, and when the guy who did the car cleaned up the rust, he also filled in the holes for the badge posts. Carefully affixing double-sided tape to the badges and cutting with an X-acto did the trick.

After the engine compartment was painted in 1988, none of the engine compartment decals were there. They are now.

The interior piece under the steering column had been removed when I rebuilt the column at least 15 years ago. I found it and reinstalled it. The best part was finding that the nickel-sized plastic piece that the hanger for the cover for the fuse box slides in was still sitting inside the hanger after all these years, with nothing holding it there but the light pressure of the two pieces of hanger wire. I just had to smile.

 

[tmason]

I too had a delightful weekend as well. Went to Home Depot my favorite store(well 2nd next to CL) and as I was pulling in a Gent with his 635 was pulling in.He stop and talk for awhile about the CS model and about his son wanting one making me think that the young kids are finding the line that are very pleasing to our older eye's

 

[pmansson]

Araldite

And I had the large cover plate under the steering wheel out for several reasons. The soft part had come off the metal plate in several places, starting with the corners.
Araldite (swiss 2 part glue which is enormously strong) is now securing the soft, thick, black cover to the plate, everywhere. Took out and riveted the mounting plates on 2 places as they were moving about too much.

The tip of how to do this properly, with a wooden piece etc, was presented on this board sometime ago, by a kind gentleman whose name I have forgotten.