Dan; The clips look like they attach to the door fuzzies {cat whiskers} door side Mark
What do you do when it’s too cold to work in the garage?
You buy parts! And buy, I did. John Paxos gave Dick Koch a headzup, and Dick clued me in, and the rest- as they say - is history.
Yup, I scored a great pair of bumper wings from John Bartell, at an awesome price. I just couldn’t resist.
Reminds me of the line from the movie 'It’s a wonderful life" ring the bell. 
Check NAPA for the vent hose. The lite green clips are for the horizontal window fuzzies.
Dick.
Today, I was a middleman for my own money. I stopped by the Post Office, and dropped off my radio and dash clock. The radio will get the guts replaced with an Aurora retrofit - AM/FM, quad amp, Bluetooth and AUX input. The clock will get cleaned, polished and hands repainted.
The front speaker will be replaced with a 5" x 7" speaker with dual voice coils - I’ll be installing two new 6" x 9" speakers in the rear. The latter arrived the day after I ordered them from Crutchfield!
Then, off to Integrity Auto Parts in Philly - where the proprietor of PCI will pick up my generator and starter for refurbishing. I provided generator replacement parts - brushes, springs, bushing - but PCI will come up with the brushes and the bendix for the starter. Integrity also has a “guy” who will rebuild the power steering unit, I dropped that off too along with a rebuild kit.
Then, to Frankford Plating! My taillight housing was supposed to be finished today - but wasn’t 
Again! However, I did see it - they are indeed working on it, and building up the shallow area with copper. He promises (right) it will be ready in two weeks, and he will ship it to me. We will see. But, on my last visit I decided to drop off my spare horn ring, and I picked that up today. It was a mess, but wow! Did it come out nice - and he only charged me $175, I guess because of all the other grief he’s given me.
This will be replacing the horn ring on Faulkner which is still in decent shape.
Tomorrow will be chilly in the garage - let’s see if TWSAM actually gets something done without spending more money.
When Faulkner gets some body work done here and there, and gets repainted - I hope to take it here, just around the corner from me. Read: I expect I can drive it, sitting atop the Dick Koch patented milk crate seat ™:
And now I’m thinking - maybe, without the hood? Which I will deliver separately? Part of what I want for them to do, is realign the hood so that it is not so tight up against the cowl, a problem ever since I bought Faulkner. I think that’s going to take adjusting the hinges with spacers, to move them forward a bit. Even though I bought another pair of hinges on eBay (thanks to Matthew), there’s really nothing wrong with mine, or the spring tension - just, that they are just too close to the firewall.
It would give me the opportunity to clean up the underside of the hood, without raining crap down on the engine compartment - and to remove rust, to rustproof, and paint:
this is the driver’s side edge of the hood - I’ve hung a piece of matting over the hood to block bright light from the window that obscures the scene
What do you think?
The color code for Faulkner is “VV” - Bronze. The bill of sale says “Copper Spice”. I’ll be getting Faulkner repainted in this color - remnants of it appear here and there, like under the anodized trim.
The interior isn’t original, although it retains some semblance to the original. I’ll be repainting the red and white interior in black, with copper accents on the door panels and door handles. On a lark I bought this paint on Amazon - look how close it is to the original!
I’m thinking I’ll buy more of this paint for the wheels, which I also plan to paint in the body color. Given the distance from the body (i.e., not immediately adjacent), I think this might work.
And here’s another thought: Even though Faulkner was originally all bronze, I’m toying with the idea of painting the roof white for a little contrast (just like Ron’s gorgeous Chrissie). What do you think, Matthew?!?
A white top would look classy! Isn’t the Sport Fury on that brochure copper with a white top?
Paint your wheels silver! It will look more normal with the hubcaps on.
You can’t go wrong with the white two tone. It also helps to give the illusion of lowness to the car and black and copper accent interior sounds killer Dan!
Hey guys, you missed my hood topic, one post up. What do you think, should I take it off?
Yes, remove the hood, it’s easy but it really takes two people. Milk crate, how gross, it’s bucket as in bucket seat, real class.
Dick.
Yeah, I was thinking in the shower (speaking of gross) that maybe I would hook up a pulley to the beam above, and put two hooks under the hood lip. Sort of a do it yourself guillotine. Time to thumb through the Harbor Freight catalog…
Actually Dan the hood is not very heavy, Yvonne helped me, remove all four bolts then lower the front leaving the rear resting on the hinges then with a person on each side walk it forward.
Dick.
Found it.
You were right, I was wrong. So, sue me.
Matthew - love those skirts! Now, those would look classy in copper…
Like this, eh?
OK, OK…
I have used Harbor freight rachet straps hung from a cross beam in my shop to make a harness around the hood on my 69 charger then unbolted and rolled the car back and lowered it down. Works great if your all by yourself, just be careful the hood dose not swing back and hit the windshield when it comes free. The Charger’s hood weighs a TON! Talk about a guillotine haha.
How wide is the gap between the hood and cowl? shims can work or if it’s extremely wide or shims throw off the hoods fitment in the front the body shop can work the edge, Weld rod to the edge to fill up the gap and then body work it in or cut a splice to widen the pannel and fill the gap.
Dick, I know the weather in Florida is nice but jeesh, put some doors on 
Yeah, I think a couple of shims will do it. I’ll have to look around for a close up pic (or eagle-eye Matthew may know where one is), that shows the hood lip trim does not align as it should with the headlight trim (hell, alignment on these cars was never perfect, even coming out of the factory). Moving it forward just a little bit is just what the doctor ordered, I think.
I guess I’ll wait on removing and cleaning up the hood, until after I’ve slapped Faulkner back together. I was thinking I could throw a blanket over the roof of the '06 Cobalt (There! I’ve said it! I drive a Chebby), and strap Faulkner’s hood down on it for delivery to the body shop.
Ace Hardware has the shims.
Dick
And today, it arrived. Too kool for skool! Not much in the way of “separation” for you audiophiles. Still, a cool thing that there’s two speakers in one.
I put red circles around the slotted mounting holes - these locations align perfectly with the mounting holes for the 5x7 paper-cone speaker I had in there previously. I just have to nibble a bit of plastic away on the mounting surface rim, because it occludes that part of the slot. For the rear speakers, I can drill new holes (if I need to - haven’t check that yet), but I don’t have that luxury for the dash speaker.
In the spirit of “It’s too freakin’ cold to work in the garage, I’m going back inside the house to buy parts”, I scored a set of floor mats today. Bernbaum offers them on his website, but sold out in the color black. No telling when he will be able to get more. Meanwhile, I contacted the guy on the forwardlook.net website who purportedly produced them - and he had a set in black I bought, for $20 less than what Bernbaum is selling them for! They look beautiful…
