Back at it this weekend. I’ve got replacement headlight buckets to be mounted.
You can tell in the last picture and the fact that the bottom mounting screws were so hard to get at on both sides, the bulbs are sitting off center, way down at the bottom right. The chrome bezels wouldn’t mount over the bulbs. That’s a problem for another day.
From the spare tire well fiasco, you can tell she had a front end shunt at some point. Also evidenced by the front trunk lid being smooshed in around the handle.
The front trunk is always wet (with water AND gas, more on that later). I tried putting a big fat weatherstrip seal around the underside of the trunk lid, but that didn’t work and quickly peeled off. $26 well spent.
While poking around, I found another area where water was getting in. The sunlight caught my eye.
Removed the handle and sprayed some rust converter on both sides.
I replaced the hood handle seals (Amazon link) and put a strip of copper shielding tape I had laying around (Amazon link), left over from a couple of noisy guitars I was working on last year.
In doing some further archaeology, I found there is another vinyl seat cover underneath the black vinyl seat cover on the driver’s side.
And just below that, I found the stickers on the new floor pans that were installed on both sides. It looks like 2009, but that may just be a part number or something.
“I’ve never seen such good floor pans in an original car” he said. “I’ve never seen such an unmolested original car” he said. I’m happy it has new floor pans in it and a rebuilt engine, but that’s not the original engine, either, friendo.
These are good things, I suppose, more work has been done than I thought, but the “original” was what I thought I was paying up for. Oh well.
There appears to be a bug on my backup camera.
