Yeah dont give it a flame job

 

You mean like this?




or this?




or this?




or even this?





Don't worry. Ain't happenin'.

 

Ah, the sergeant Schultz approach!


Pat

 

He's my role model.

 

That's a pretty extreme interpretation for 'ghost flames' IMO. I hope you realize I was only kidding about doing that to your wagon. None of the pics you posted were ghost flames btw.

I'm sure it will come back looking just like it did before the crunch.

 

I know. Besides, I don't need to paint flames on the car. With its yellow color, when I'm speeding down the highway doing 75 mph, my car IS a flame going by.


I kind of figured this, too. But flames is flames as far as I'm concerned. I don't want 'em on my car!

 

A flame? That houseboat must look like the Chicago fire!

- Eric

 

An apt comparison!

 

roflmao.........................

 

Got the car back from the body shop this morning. Reused the original taillight trim. Looking great, I think.


To remind you what it looked like before:





Now, after:

 

How's the 'blend' that you mentioned? Need a big picture of the side of the car to see if they matched the paint right....could be just me or the lighting but the color on the quarter looks different than the clamshell. Too much green/blue in the mix.

They did a great job on the rear bumper. Was it straightened and re-chromed?

 

Looks good jaunty. Hopefully ill be posting a pic of mine with new cargo glass in next month or so

 

NFB.

- Eric

 

I'll bite. WTH IS NFB?

 

Not Effing Bad.

 

I didn't have the car outside, and I'm too lazy to back it out, so I took these two photos of it in the garage. I don't notice any difference between the newly painted and not newly painted sections.


Here's a photo of the rear half:




More tellingly, here's a photo of the rear door/rear fender area. The door was not repainted while to the right of the door above the fender skirt was. If you can see a difference, you're a better man than me.

One thing to keep in mind on the paint is that the car was repainted in 2005, so the job is now 9 years old and has most certainly faded if only slightly. Any new paint is going to necessarily be slightly brighter, and that's the point of "blending" the old into the new. In this case, because of the clearcoat, they didn't do any blending, but rather put new paint right up to any edge. Thus, at transition points, such as between the rear of the door and the fender or between the fender skirt and the fender, there will be a sudden transition from old to new, and it's possible a discerning eye could see a difference. I don't think paint shops purposely "fade" paint to make it look as old as the paint on the car (but I don't know this).

If there IS a difference in the color between the new and the old, it so slight and so inconsequential as to be of no moment to me. I'm very happy with the work.







It wasn't anythinged. It was just removed as part of the repair and then replaced. They gave the car a good washing, too, before turning it over to me. If you see a difference in the before/after photos of the bumper, then we know you're smokin' something!

 

Then it should be NEB.

 

This is a compliment, so don't take it the wrong way. If you are happy, then it probably looks really nice.


NFB=Not Fricken Bad.

 

If it passes your inspection, it's all good. That is my barometer anyway. Like that car a lot.

 

Having an obtuse day, are we?

- Eric

 

No different than any other day.

 

That's what counts.

Puff, puff, puff. W'all it shore does looky difrent ta me marshall. Coulda been the way the metal was twisted?? Anyway, it still looks great. BTW, that car would look even better with wire wheel discs. Thought you had a set of them for it.

 

Nice job...

 

I did and I do. But you know what? They clicked. Those spokes are only press fit into place, and it's pretty much impossible to make all of them 100% rattle-free. For the longest time I heard a clicking noise coming from the rear of the car and thought it was a bad bearing or something in the differential. Even took the car to a shop. They could find nothing wrong. Then it occurred to me that it might just be the wheelcover spokes, so I removed the two rear wheelcovers, and, sure enough, the sound went away.

I decided for peace of mind to put the older, original wheelcovers on and enjoy the silence!

Here it is, with those wheel covers.




and with the originals

 

Beautiful car !!! Even if Allan doesn't like it !!

 

Thanks. I'm sure he does (at least a little bit).

 

Looks like they did
a very nice job.
Good looking ride.

 

??? Huh??? Where'd that come from? I've never said that I don't like Dan's CC. In fact 73 is one of my favorite year CCs. I owned one myself and loved everything about it except the fuel mileage.

Ahhh, I know exactly what you're talking about. My 1983 Regency Brougham (same wheel covers as you have BTW) also made that annoying noise. It wasn't the spokes. It's where the clips on the inside of the wheel disc grab the wheel. I put some white lithium grease on those pressure points and the noise went away. Give it a try and see if it works. BTW the wheel discs on my 73 CC were different than yours. They also weighed in at around 5 lbs each. I'm sure that a PO likely ditched the originals for the 98 wheel discs as seen on this beauty.



You know darn well I do. The comment on another thread about the 98 in yellow was not about your CC. Personally I think that color looks great on it, and it's very good at hiding dust or light dirt.

 

I don't think the ones I have are from '73. I'm pretty sure they're from a later year.

 

Oooops.
I meant to say put some lithium grease on the contact area between where the clips grab the wheel. If you look at the backside of the wire wheel disc you should be able to spot some contact areas that show either bright or dark smudging. Those are the places to lubricate.