Roof Deuce Restoration

[mockingbird812]

Joe comes thru: My hood tach was sent out for rework at Auto Instruments recently and it was determined that the innards were no longer working and were unrepairable due to specific parts availability, so they put new tach workings inside. I asked them to address the yellowed face. They said that they could not access the inside face because of the Dixco assembly process where the lense was glued to the Yenko Crest bezel. Well Joe worked his magic when the hood tach came back to Donahue and the results are below. Mighty impressive Joe !! Looks great!

Thanks!!

Before...


After ....

[camarojoe]

Looks good...I think Auto Instruments is telling you stories. The lense shouldn't have been glued to the bezel. The faceplace just pops on, and the lense is removable with small screwdriver. I'd be interested in those original Dixco innards they took out and claimed were unrepairable if they didn't keep them.

[SuperNovaSS]

Yeah, that sounds like a story unless someone glued the bezel to the lens at some point. The bezel snaps on and off, and sometimes in half .



Jason

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

Joe is right the lense is screwed on - always removable.

Sam, I hope there is no spray through on the Magnum wheels, only on the XT wheel.

[mockingbird812]

Yes Marlin. Should have only said XT.

[mockingbird812]

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Joe is right the lense is screwed on - always removable.

Sam, I hope there is no spray through on the Magnum wheels, only on the XT wheel .

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Here you go Marlin ....

[Roof]

Mark, Luigi's is still in business and going strong, even selling their own sauce at Tate's supermarket in Clymer.
Joe, No pics with the stripes on. Earl shot a whole roll of film the day before we took them off. When we notified the developing lab that the pics had never arrived, they claimed they had gotten "lost". We've always been very disappointed about that.
Schonye, did you get a package yet? Went out on Tuesday.
Sam, so what will this car be known as now? Sam's Deuce(isn't there another Sam with a Deuce)? Griffith's Deuce? Sam Griffith's Deuce? I'm still trying to figure out what our new user name should be.
Earl says we ran the original wheels for about 3-4 years before putting on the Ansens.
Earl and I were talking about the tach the other day. He said that for some reason every time he turned on the headlights on the car the tach would drop about 200-400 rpms so he disconnected the light in the tach.
That Schoenthaler family sure is a good team!!!

[Schonyenko2]

Nothing yet Linda. So what do you think is a good price to split?
Funny how the original owner/car name seems to kinda stay with the car. With us, there'll always be a Moses deuce, a "Ten seconds to Heaven" (Wild Bill Edel) deuce, and at least with us, always a Roof deuce. When you've owned them as long as you have from day one, there's part of your soul in that car that never leaves.
To bad about the pics. Deuce stripes are like fingerprints. No two sets are exactly alike. It would have been cool to see how your had been put on.
And thanks for the compliment, but most of the time it's more like Orange county chopper around here. Thank Heaven I'm the sane one.

[Roof]

Hey sane one I priced the Caddy, don't think Sam will be willing to go that high, especially since we'll both be getting a cut. I'm thinking of buying another horse when I retire, maybe I should start checking prices on those!!
For some reason Earl and I didn't take a lot of pics when we were first married. Have sometimes wondered why that was since he had a really good camera and dabbled in photography and developing his own pictures when he was stationed in Germany.
I agree that part of your soul stays with the car. Every time I see another piece completed it brings back an old memory!!

[ORIGLS6]

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Thank Heaven I'm the sane one.

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