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Rob, my striker plate is already pushed way...back into the door rubber molding. I looked at the lower piece, burst plate" this morning and judging from wear, it needs some adjustment. Hopefully, the strike is ok already. Thanks for the pics. More later..
 
Yup. Know how you & JC feel regarding paint. Ours was "Amana" or "Tappan" white when bought in '89. Looked like it'd been applied via roller. Doors didn't fit, bootlid overhung rear panel, hood side gaps were ugly-different. Figured I'd "Get a round tuit" at some point, so I just made it mechanically reliable as a daily for SWMBO. We stopped pushin' it in '99. It sat 'till this past March when I finally got that "tuit." Figgered it should only take me a month or two to finish makin' it straight and shiny... yeah, right! Still not done. Poor old beast needed one new ~everything~ to straighten it out. Bootlid: "ARGH!" Rear quarter fenders: "Rats!" Floor pans: "HOW much?!?" First part of July, my left retina "mutiny" occurred and then two months of SWMBO screamin' "You are NOT gonna do ANYTHING of th' sort!" every time i'd even THINK about walkin' out to th' garage (I made the mistake of askin' her into th' room to hear what the surgeon suggested as recovery time... That ain't gonna happen again.)... But in the end we'll have an acceptably straight, shiny B as a driver. "Old English" white, the color it was on leaving Abingdon.

Lesson bein': Let it go and just drive it... but don't let it go too long. Keep it under a decade /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
hahahah... definitely letting it go... it's on the bottom of my list of things to re-touch... My right front wing use to be a dark blue; not that lime/pea green/yellow you see peaking out of various parts in my pics... and while scootin' around under the car a while back I noticed the right front inner fender is nicely bent (between the door and wheel well)... So I know this car has been an accident victim somewhere down the line. The fact that the inner fender pieces are still nicely bent up for me tells me they got the repairs done "on the cheap"...

ah well, I'll get to that too eventually... I reckon I'll start replacing ratted out vinyl bits sometime next year...
 
I personally prefer "survivors" over show cars!
 
heh... I suppose survivors is a good description of a car that's lasted through the years and still sees the pavement, but I do like a nice looking car. On the other hand, what good is it if it's not being driven?

My car is far from being a "show car", and I decided long ago that it would never be a trailor queen... and I've written the concours stuff off as never gonna happen with my wrenching... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
 
Rob...some of my cars never see the road - I just like owning them

...I like looking at restored cars & show cars...there's a lot to learn from them

...but the 'survivor' that hits the road in fair weather, in the rain & snow & always performs as it should is the car I admire most, worn paint, cracked leather & all its foiables!
 
hah... my car has all that! Especially the cracked and splitting vinyl (none of that fancy schmancy cow hide in my car!)... ever have britle vinyl scrape the under side of your arm in the summer? almost as bad as laying that same part of the arm on the nice summer sun heated weather stipping on the doors... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/jester.gif
 
Too many of my friends have quoted me before: "ya know, there's a practical side to owning these cars. It's to DRIVE 'em... DAILY!"

Stout, well engineered cars. Durn' near an "infinitely renewable resource." All we gotta worry about is the availability of fuel. Can't say that about ANY car designed/built much after 1980. Will there be suspension parts available for a 2001 Camry in forty years? Brainbox for a 2004 Caddy 'sclade? BWUHAAHAAHAAAAA!!!!!!

I'll go back to my 'room' now.....
 
there might be... but given the current conditions the wonderful state of Kalifornia are placing on us folks out here, I'm not sure how long our late model LBCs will last. There are some emissions parts that are a hassel or cost inefficient in obtaining already (e.g. can't just walk into a parts store on the street and pick up a new EGR or Gulp Valve)... if I can't the right part then I have to hope I can pull wool in a coupld more years.

Then again, I remember reading a passage in the emissions law somewhere that had waiver for folks that can no longer obtain the necesary parts, but the age of the car falls into their testing program...

I may have to dig through that stuff again sometime.
 
Rob...next time you're in the parts store, ask for an early Datsun Z car gulp or check valve...you might be pleasantly surprised
 
ya know... i tried pulling the numbers off the top of the "Nissan" branded gulp valve that's in my car now and the Kragen person couldn't find jack on their computers... maybe next time I'll just bring the check valve in with me...

technically speaking ... I know the Nissan part will work and does work.

legally speaking... I don't think Kalifornia Laws allow such swapping of parts without pre-approval of the part for the application... or you go see an emissions inspection "referee" after you've done it and been flagged as a fail because of the parts used. Fortunately, the SMOG Check only workers I've encountered don't seem to be very knowledgeable on what's going on under the hood of an LBC...

but I don't really care anymore (who made the emissions part) as long as it gets the job done and I don't get pinged for it on inspection... ya know?
 
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