Somehow, I owned this car for two weeks before I realized it had a screw on canister oil filter, which was not from the factory. I snapped some blurry pictures from a blind angle up under the rear of the car to try and find some more details. It appears to be an Empi Full Flow...
I drove her 150 miles to my parents' house for the weekend. My dad and I did some wrenching, adjusting the drum brakes, among other things. I mixed up a batch of boiled linseed oil, mineral spirits, and a splash of WD-40 and gave her a rubdown. Before Getting dark out The next...
There are several layers of paint. The whole car was (poorly) painted light blue. Below that in certain areas like the fenders and rear end is a dark purplish blue. The gray that is peeking through everywhere is the factory paint, which is Zenith Blue, color code L639, hex cod...
The car came with a tape deck and one four inch speaker in the dash to the left of the steering wheel. I bought a couple of cheap Alpine 6x9s (Amazon link), traced and cut out a template for the space behind the rear seat in a flattened cardboard box, and then cut and screwed...
My sister rode with me to check out the car and follow me home in the truck. When we got there, the owner had mounted the stock steel wheels and hubcaps… …but the Empi wheels and tires from the listing images were thrown in on the deal. I didn't realize until later that al...
I haven't ever named a car before and I don't really refer to the car by that name. Usually, I just say "the beetlebug". I am supposedly a distant relative of Tallulah Bankhead, and the more I have learned about her and the more I learn about this car, it seems like a fitting...