Hialeah56
#41
I like the idea of the tri-tone horn myself. I have a dual tone horn on my 57 Olds and it sounds mellow and non-obtrusive, but loud enough to take notice - man they were thinking well in those days. I think that listening to a tri-tone must almost be like listening to a music chord. Cool concept!
#42
I like the idea of the tri-tone horn myself. I have a dual tone horn on my 57 Olds and it sounds mellow and non-obtrusive, but loud enough to take notice - man they were thinking well in those days. I think that listening to a tri-tone must almost be like listening to a music chord. Cool concept!
just got this looks like the right dimensions judging from the picture hope it looks right
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I haven't done much lately but here's some minor details going on
door felts are now finished
bought these
put them on
chromed my window mouldings and frames
and installed rear side glass
door felts are now finished
bought these
put them on
chromed my window mouldings and frames
and installed rear side glass
Last edited by hialeah56; February 2nd, 2010 at 03:05 PM.
#51
I'm going to post this over here since noone seems to read the wanted parts post. I'm looking for some things
-padded dash
-manual antenna base (mine broke when removing plastic nut )
-nice driver's side vent window frame for a 2 door hardtop, will fit out of 54-56 olds or buick special or century (please no pitted out junk already have one of those)
Thanks in advance,
Erit
Hialeaherit8858@yahoo.com
-padded dash
-manual antenna base (mine broke when removing plastic nut )
-nice driver's side vent window frame for a 2 door hardtop, will fit out of 54-56 olds or buick special or century (please no pitted out junk already have one of those)
Thanks in advance,
Erit
Hialeaherit8858@yahoo.com
Last edited by hialeah56; March 21st, 2010 at 09:40 PM. Reason: found steering column
#52
I'm going to post this over here since noone seems to read the wanted parts post. I'm looking for some things
-padded dash
-manual antenna base (mine broke when removing plastic nut )
-power steering colunm (this one I'm confused about because don't know if manual one can be separated from gear box, service manual only says to remove as a unit)
-nice set of vent window frames for a 2 door hardtop, will fit out of 54-56 olds or buick special or century (please no pitted out junk already have a set of those)
Thanks in advance,
Erit
Hialeaherit8858@yahoo.com
-padded dash
-manual antenna base (mine broke when removing plastic nut )
-power steering colunm (this one I'm confused about because don't know if manual one can be separated from gear box, service manual only says to remove as a unit)
-nice set of vent window frames for a 2 door hardtop, will fit out of 54-56 olds or buick special or century (please no pitted out junk already have a set of those)
Thanks in advance,
Erit
Hialeaherit8858@yahoo.com
hey, not too sure why the manual says that...i have a manual steering column that i seperated from the box with out any troubles.....i have a padded dash top, its not in the best of shape...but if your looking for one as a template this might work fine for you...........................john
#53
hey, not too sure why the manual says that...i have a manual steering column that i seperated from the box with out any troubles.....i have a padded dash top, its not in the best of shape...but if your looking for one as a template this might work fine for you...........................john
Last edited by hialeah56; February 27th, 2010 at 04:40 PM.
#55
#56
the 56 is coming along good, as soon as i can figure out how to post on here ill put up some pics. i took a look at the dash pad and its real bad. there is a rip right along the center of it, and it falls apart in my hands as i touch it. the column has a big clamp on the bottom it with a bolt going threw the bottom if it. once you remove that it should come apart. ill have the pics up soon. i have to load them on the comp.....................john
#57
the 56 is coming along good, as soon as i can figure out how to post on here ill put up some pics. i took a look at the dash pad and its real bad. there is a rip right along the center of it, and it falls apart in my hands as i touch it. the column has a big clamp on the bottom it with a bolt going threw the bottom if it. once you remove that it should come apart. ill have the pics up soon. i have to load them on the comp.....................john
#62
man, i saw that 56 on ebay a few weeks ago, in my opinon that is the worst color combo ive ever seen on these cars lol. but real nice car otherwise...... i dig the exhust ports coming threw the bumper on that 98.................john
#63
Erit
BTW have you seen these with the extended bumper ends? I bought an extra bumper and I'm going to try to duplice this for my car
Last edited by hialeah56; April 2nd, 2010 at 06:07 PM.
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I have to hang a new pedal for my firewall mounted booster, so I have to put the seat in place to get the right height. So I did this today, put an eviction notice on a family of palmetto bugs(Huge F*cking roaches) I clean the seat to the frame. Also sprayed it down with some roach spray. Next I'm probably going to sand blast the frame and paint it.
wish I had a picture of the roaches coming out when I sprayed the lower rail , like 30 of those things came out of it
wish I had a picture of the roaches coming out when I sprayed the lower rail , like 30 of those things came out of it
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Interesting brake pedal setup. Wouldn't have worked in my 57, not enough room. I had all of the parts but still circled the braker conversion for a month before I started it. I did the full on front and back conversion. It's a little scary when you take it all apart, but once you get started it dosn't take long to get to the finish line. Good luck and keep posting the conversion.
#77
Interesting brake pedal setup. Wouldn't have worked in my 57, not enough room. I had all of the parts but still circled the braker conversion for a month before I started it. I did the full on front and back conversion. It's a little scary when you take it all apart, but once you get started it dosn't take long to get to the finish line. Good luck and keep posting the conversion.
#79
I got one of these off of ebay
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1955-...item2eac815232
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1955-...item2eac815232
#80
Never noticed that there was two different clocks a stainless faced and blacked out one. Andybee just pointed this out in another thread, went to look in my car and sure enought the one installed had a blacked out face, luckly the extra one I had was the stainless faced one (I had never noticed). Just replaced mine