It was a gift from an old colleague of mine who used it in the 70's and replaced it in the 80's. I restored it ten years ago and made the seat from a template I found on thesamba.com. The lamp is one I had lying around and fit the holes in the posts.
You doing your own zinc coating?
I've done a bit, just using one of the kits from Eastwood. Given that I'm powder coating over it, that serves as a primary protective layer so the zinc is more of the belt and suspenders approach. The kit is fairly cheap and works for things like this, brackets, etc. You can do bolts and washers, etc, but for a $0.30 bolt that's all rusted or encrusted, seems a lot of work to polish, degrease, wrap with wire to zinc plate, then polish further etc. Most of the bolts that are standard size I have just replaced from Belmetric and have only done the above to the ones that are odd sizes or otherwise hard to find.
Does anyone the RAL number of the khaki colour?
Oh of course...well, so much for that. We will figure something out. Thanks for the heads up. I didn't realize they were bent. Maybe I will get lucky but I doubt it. Always my luck. I figured that was much higher up and would fit in the slot straight. Shoot...ok, well, maybe back to the drawing board, maybe not, will keep you posted.
So a slight change of plans. I did all of the above to my rear brake calipers, overall turned out...ok...and then when talking to Don he nicely told me "you're doing a lot of the work on this car yourself, spend that effort doing the things that it's hard for someone else to do when the car is in your garage, but for rebuilds, have an expert do the job since they will do it better". So, yes, for about $300 for all 4 calipers to be completely torn down, beautifully zinc coated and cadmium plated, then rebuilt, that's probably a better idea. So off they go to CaliperHQ to return in 4 weeks. I did finish the engine bay painting and polishing however, installed the liners on the underside of the hood and started putting the hinges back on. Those Cleco pins are phenomenal - great tip by someone here to drill two 1/8" reference holes on each half of the hinge before removal to realign afterwards. Tonight is trying to get that torsion bar assembled and installed...
Don has given me the same advice.. Don't spend valuable time doing the parts you don't like doing, and can pay someone else to do much better.. Wise man...
I think he's right. I'm planning to keep the car for a long time, but if/when I go to sell it, I'm not going to have a long list of work done by a mechanic or shop, since a lot of this I'm doing on my own - the teardown, the rebuild, the wiring, the adding items etc. That at least is stuff that is "visible" to any future buyer or owner. When it comes to the items that are a bit more "black-box", it might be nice to be able to say that the brake booster was rebuilt by PowerBrake, and the Manifold Pressure Sensory by Fuel Injection Corp, and the calipers by CaliperHQ. I will have reinstalled all of those parts but the work to make them perfect will have been done by an expert. Where to draw the line on that is always fluid and likely based on your own comfort level and experience.
Agree. As an electrical engineer with 30+ years in the advanced automotive technology industry, I am fine with some of the more esoteric things, like totally rebuilding my wire harness, and even taking a pass at restoring the wood dash (that experience is based on 15 years restoring an antique boat), but to be able to say the car has an engine from Don Lawrence, and to have good paint and a very classy interior is, IMO, a value add.
Hey Chris, I do, however, I didn't open the box before I took the bumper to the Chromer. Was going to fit it all once the bumper was done and the box didn't look like it had pieces of metal with big bends. I looked at a couple pictures online and it looks like they may need some spacers along the frame anyways where those holes are. My hope is the irons will fit over the tow hook mod and I may be able to at least use one of the existing holes, just would need a longer bolt. If we need to make a bigger bend or do some more fabing, we will. So, thanks for pointing that out. Nothing ever goes smooth or flawless with me, par for the course. It's ok, not worried about it. My guy is pretty amazing at his fabrication work so we will figure it out. In the meantime I am very happy to have the tow hook.
i tend to think that the pattern used on the rear CSL seats makes a lot of sense for the inset of perforated leather.
