Rob,

It has the original dated tank but it has a pretty good dent in the bottom of it and likely isn't worth saving. I do have one other original but too early of a date to use for this car. I was thinking of running a new Spectra tank until I find a suitable original with a later date. If you see a late original out there please keep me in mind or reach out as I'd love to find a better one for this car.

Here's the early one that a friend passed along to me a few years ago.

https://i.ibb.co/vB4MTh2/IMG-7353.jpg

Hey Graeme...did you find the source of the "smell" yet?

This one is yours for the taking if you want it. Planning a visit to North Carolina anytime soon?

The tank is out of a 9D Norwood car. Those are just dirt marks on the bottom that looks like scratches and blue over spray from somebodies 2nd paint job. I can check the inside but there is a locking cap. And who better to ask! What's the easiest way to get it off without damage ?

Sorry to cluttered up your thread. I can delete some of these pics after you have a look. But not the one with Moon in it :burnout:

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Let me think on the tank and leaving the pics there is fine Rob. I might take you up on that one and truly appreciate the offer. Moon is looking pretty happy there. It's gotten cold here today and snowed a bunch last night so Düss is having a nap here right now. He's like a horse this guy!

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Hey Mark...

I've checked the car out including the cowl plenums and fan housing. No mice, no nests, no nothing (but I did find one of the original key code knockouts that found it's way under the carpet). There's no evidence of mice anywhere so it might just be the smell of mothballs as I suspected.



I found a color safe chemical call AGI (pronounced Aggy) for treating carpet and fabric that has live enzymes and will neutralize the odor both in the nylon twist as well as airborne. Once I spray the carpet and seat backs I will vacuum it up after a couple hours of dry time and button it all back up again. I'll then put a couple pie plates of coffee grinds out and leave that for a week or so. If there's any smell lingering after that, another trick I was told is to use a suggested dry-cleaning spray on the headliner to take it to the next level. In the mean time, I'll wipe down the vinyl after it's back together and see if that neutralizes everything. I'm trusting this approach will work great.

Good to hear Graeme. If there was something in there in the past, I think you would have found some evidence by now. I bought a 72 Corvette years ago that had only 21,000 miles but had been stored in a "bank barn". As soon as I got in it I could smell that old familiar smell. It was cold that night and I had a 2 hour drive home in it with my wife following me. The car was a vert and the windows started fogging up, so I turned on the heater...bad move! Mouse crap and bits of foam etc. blew right into my face! I ended up pulling 4 grocery bags full of mouse nest material out of that car. Under both seats, under the dash and in the bottoms of both front fenders.

Ok ,no hurry at all. I just saw a dated part with the dump in its future and it was too much to bear :) We had a nice fall day here with temps in the 70s. It was a brutal summer though and Moon is much happier to be outside now. That's a beautiful boy you got there !!!

I took some more pictures after pulling the drivers seat out and seeing how clean the original frames are. Same thing as the other side with really clean floors everywhere. You can see from the seat bottoms and the floors around the sound deaden-er that this car has never seen moisture, condensation or humidity of any significance. Everywhere I have looked is clean, dry and completely rust free.

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Drivers side seat bottom and frame. Slides are just cherry!

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Have you ever seen frames that look this clean after 50 years?

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Floors are simply impeccable in this car.

https://i.ibb.co/9VbxDmd/IMG-7369.jpg
Original carpets, sound deaden-er and jute padding are clean and dry.

https://i.ibb.co/D7D9NPs/IMG-7368.jpg
Anytime I've taken these sub frame bolts out, they are almost always rusty. Not with this car!

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A few treasures from under the carpet including an original key code knockout.

That is nasty! :ooo::ooo::ooo:

Thanks Tim & Buddy.

Jerry McNeish will have the distributor by the weekend and will set it up and spin it for me. Should be finished up in time for delivery to MCACN where I'll pick it up. Plan is coming together nicely.