hello everybody, looking for all the help i can get fixing up m

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Welcome to the site, your in the right place.

 

The car looks decent. What kind of help and advice you looking for? Up front- little to no reproduction parts support, and demo derbies and Obama-crush decimated used parts availability for these big heavy cars.

 

i need a few small parts like the wiring harness for the cornering lights i have but not installed yet, i screwed up & got a set without the bulbs, a windshield washer fluid dispenser & the roof panel logos, mine have the inserts missing on both sides & maybe a tilt steering column & trunk lock cover with the swivil like on the regency 98's, thats about it.

 

Cornering lights- you have to have the turn signal switch along with the harness, plus the housings and bulbs. The bulbs are hard to find.

If you want to convert to tilt column, the t/s switch is different from non-tilt so get a column from a cornering lamp car. 71-73 88-98 are your direct interchanges, 74-76 will also work but some difference in length.

Trunk lock cover: find one from a 77-85 Delta Royale. It's red background, Royale script, and is easy to install on 71-73 88. The plastic insert on these holds up better too.

Roof scripts: hard to find. Seems that plastic insert deteriorates in the box even on NOS pieces.

The washer fluid reservoir is probably gonna be the easiest piece to find. Used 71-76 B&C car and 73-77 Cutlass.

 

Love that car! Neighbor had one same colors back in the early seventies. It seems like more families had the 88's than Cutlasses, Sure were a bunch of them!

 

thanks for the info, i was unaware of any of that stuff about the cornering lights & will shop accordingly & now I'll most like seek out the properly equipped steering column first

 

Welcome, that's a beautiful Delta 88!

One of our members; bigdooly, often parts 70s B and C bodies. You might send him a PM to ask if he has the parts you need.

BTW, are those wheels knock-off Daytons?

 

to the best of my knowledge those wheels are not knock-offs, the original owner told me he's had them on the car for 20 years, plus i have no earthly idea how to tell a knock off from the real deal, is theres some kinda logo or something on the inside of the wheel that may be missing from a knock off?

 

Knock-off meaning a lead hammer is used to tighten the center spinner.