Every car gets up to 4 new fuses when it leaves the shop.
100 bucks saves 10,000 bucks
100 bucks saves 10,000 bucks
Barney’s Baikal Blue coupe refresh
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Another option is to remove this wire and insulate the end, if your engine is in good tune it will start just fine without the ballast bypass during cranking. And now that many of our cars are not using the ballast resistor with newer ignition systems and/or 123 distributor, this wire is no longer needed for those setups.
Plastic or rubber sheaths are cheap and good
we carry black and clear
we carry black and clear
I am very happy that it wasn’t much worse, and that the car is in Don Lawrence’s capable hands… we are continuing on the tour in a rental Nissan. We had just left crater lake and where headed to bend, Oregon when the small fire happened… We continued on the Smith Rock and then mount hood today.
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TodB
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That third pic....
Pictures along the way on the Pacific Northwest tour…
Many thanks to Don Lawrence, just like your grandma always told you to do…he is re- working my car into better shape than it was before the fire…They are hard at work getting it repaired. Looks like I may be able to drive it back to Texas in the near future.
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We were able to pick the car up from Don in better running shape than it was before the start of northwest trip.
1300 miles on our northwest trip before short/fire and another 2100 on the way back to Texas, since I’ve been back home we sorted out a few small issues, driver side door latch/piece of rubber, trim, loose/final adjustments to my throttle mechanism/foot pedal and changing out the top throttle-body on one of my weber carburetors that was binding up /not releasing.
A little over 200 miles in the last few days feeling like it’s back together and running great…
1300 miles on our northwest trip before short/fire and another 2100 on the way back to Texas, since I’ve been back home we sorted out a few small issues, driver side door latch/piece of rubber, trim, loose/final adjustments to my throttle mechanism/foot pedal and changing out the top throttle-body on one of my weber carburetors that was binding up /not releasing.
A little over 200 miles in the last few days feeling like it’s back together and running great…
Hey- that looks good!
See you in 4 weeks and I haven't forgotten the wine!
See you in 4 weeks and I haven't forgotten the wine!
Been working on refreshing these rear subframes to add to disk brakes to the rear of my coupe.
Getting started with the install today.
Getting started with the install today.
About 50% there on installation for rear control arms with disk breaks, waiting on new hard lines for rear disk calipers to finish up…
85% finished with adding rear disk breaks I purchased a complete set of brake lines when I started on this coupe project when I looked for the two for the rear it looks like I used one of the rear lines for the front…so I’m now waiting on one hard rear line to complete this project.
I was able to finish adding rear disk brakes to my 71 coupe this morning, reoccurring theme, was able to do it with Don Lawrence’s help he brought me the needed hard line that I was missing down when he attended Terry Sayther’s 2002 event in Kerrville, Texas last weekend…
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Yes thats us in the Ceylon Gold tii…
love it ... looks beautiful - one of my favorite colors
First test drive with rear disk breaks installed, working great. Adjusted the stance up a bit in the rear
while replacing the rear control arms, happy with look…
Right at 800 miles on the coupe this weekend touring the Texas hill country around Kerrville, and Fredericksburg, Texas with the Tejas chapter of BMW/CCA…
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the coupe just looks so much better than all those newer BMW ... perhaps ELEGANT is the right word. then we get to talk about how great baikal looks compared to all of those newer blue colors.