alleyyooper
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- Dec 26, 2018
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- Location
- Michigan.
iIused to show our collection of antique tractors. It wasn't to bad when my dad was alive and healthy as he would chain and bind the tractors to the trailer and once at the show are he would unchain them while I put the chains away. Crazy chains & binders left laying on the trailers were prime to walk off.
I did a few shows after dads health went south but after he passed I just quit taking them.
I decided I would like a old car or a truck and when My mother in laws 1985 Buick LeSabre Collectors Edition became a garage queen in 2010 I started asking mom to sell it to me.
Finally in August 2016 she relented and I got a car I have lusted over since I first saw it when it was 3 days old to Mom.
It was not in factory show room condition any longer the paint was old pitted, faded and cracked with a bit of surface rust here and there.
It was worked on the whole summer of 2017 to get the cruise working again, changeing over the AC from R12 to R134 and chaseing he over heatting issues flushes, new hoses, anti freeze and finally a new clutch fan clutch. A set of new front tires because the ones on it despite great tread had steel belts that had shifted.
Then Oct 2017 it was left at the painters shop. Love the work done anly thing is I had left it there not going to check on it till January when I needed thr power antena to replace the cable that raises it and lowers it. I was supposed to get a photo book as the work was being done. didn't happen so I only go the ones from my January trip for the anteana.
It was taken down to bare metal stripped of most all chrome then Epoxie primer put on and block sanded several times then thre sanable primer was put on and block sanded and sanded even more.
4 coats of thr orginal color were applied and sanded and sanded some more.
When Dave was satified with the smoothness of the base color 4 coats of clear was applied.
Went and picked it up April 1st 2018 and had a couple weeks to have it read for our first show.
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I did a few shows after dads health went south but after he passed I just quit taking them.
I decided I would like a old car or a truck and when My mother in laws 1985 Buick LeSabre Collectors Edition became a garage queen in 2010 I started asking mom to sell it to me.
Finally in August 2016 she relented and I got a car I have lusted over since I first saw it when it was 3 days old to Mom.
It was not in factory show room condition any longer the paint was old pitted, faded and cracked with a bit of surface rust here and there.
It was worked on the whole summer of 2017 to get the cruise working again, changeing over the AC from R12 to R134 and chaseing he over heatting issues flushes, new hoses, anti freeze and finally a new clutch fan clutch. A set of new front tires because the ones on it despite great tread had steel belts that had shifted.
Then Oct 2017 it was left at the painters shop. Love the work done anly thing is I had left it there not going to check on it till January when I needed thr power antena to replace the cable that raises it and lowers it. I was supposed to get a photo book as the work was being done. didn't happen so I only go the ones from my January trip for the anteana.
It was taken down to bare metal stripped of most all chrome then Epoxie primer put on and block sanded several times then thre sanable primer was put on and block sanded and sanded even more.
4 coats of thr orginal color were applied and sanded and sanded some more.
When Dave was satified with the smoothness of the base color 4 coats of clear was applied.
Went and picked it up April 1st 2018 and had a couple weeks to have it read for our first show.
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