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

 

Thats cool where does it mount. I have the dual horns on my 57 and they mount on the front of the radiator support on the drivers side.

 

This horn looks like it would sound like a trumpet. Amazing - is this a part of your tri-horn setup; one of the three, or is it a three in one sort of thing?

 

these are my other two, now I want to chrome the end on the trumpet one

 

I like your horn caps. Now I gotta go find me that third horn. I am sure Dan will be looking as well. Thanks for the picture

 

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

 

Looks great, has that new car shine

 

wooow!!!!!!!
great work...

 

thank you guys hope to have more pics real soon

 

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

 

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

 

How does it split up? My column looks like a solid piece into the manual box. BTW PM me how much you want for the dash pad and some pictures I might be interested

 

tomorrow ill get some pics of it, i dont remember how i did it, it was a year ago. ill snap some shots of the pad too for ya.................john

 

Thanks John, btw hows that 56 coming along?
Erit

 

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

 

The easiest way to post pics on here is to get a photobucket.com account set up. It's free and all you do is download pics into their site and copy the code they give you onto here. I was looking at my column the other day after I read your post and saw the clamp you're refering to, but though it look to easy and that that couldn't be it . I'm going to give that a try this weekend. BTW if the dash pad is too destroyed it's probably not going to work. I wanted to take it to my interior guy and have him use it as a template

 

today I replaced my passanger's side vent window frame with one that I found on ebay
next to the old one

new one

old one

still need a decent driver's side one

 

also added these

 

some cool pictures that I found on the ebay enjoy
factory a/c can't wait

cool pinstripe

notice anything weird about this 98

What the... was this a JC Whitney trim for the 98?

 

two more

notice anything odd on this speedometer


cool continental kit

 

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

 

I kinda like it, specially the weird continental kit and the speedometer in kilometers. I want to put a continental kit on mine but nobody I talk to likes the pinic table continental kits our cars took. Wish i could find one of these
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

 

I like the extended bumper, makes the car look even longer. the 200 kilo speedo is cool. Bet that makes some heads turn

 

Glad to see that I'm not the only one

 

what I did today

 

Wow! Nice looking 56!

I just started on a 55. Your before and after pics give me motivation and inspiration. Thanks!

 

thanks and welcome to CO. I just saw the pictures of your 55, she looks like a good start good luck and keep us posted

 

looks awesome when are you going to debut it at Tower Shops?

 

i actually like the extended bumper cont. kit.......... im weird though....lol...........................john

 

wish I knew, still many things to be done, but it is definitely on the to do list

 

you and me both, I'm getting one just don't know when

 

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

 

Ug, I hate those damn bugs. What did you decide on for a hanging pedal setup. Post pictures of your install when you are done

 

I've decided that I really don't want to do it , but I guess that's not an option. So I'm going with a 57-58 buick pedal and a chevy dual diaphragm booster with dual chamber master.Hope it all works out, but I really been dragging this job out. It should have been done by now

 

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.

 

Just clears my dash, and I know what you mean, how long have I had the parts just sitting and I keep circling the project. Well anyways just got some stencils from my friend Mr. Brad Hoke (Bradley on here) and installed my mirrors.

 

What year is the booster and master off of?

 

I got one of these off of ebay
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1955-...item2eac815232

 

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