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#1
12-04-2005, 09:31 AM
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Re: December '05 Feature Car
Pretty Car. Westminster is a great little Town as well. I am sure it was a Blast in 1969 to be running around down there with this Car! The next owner will be a Happy Man I am sure!!
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12-05-2005, 05:08 PM
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Re: December '05 Feature Car
Original owner claims to have photos of the car from '69, trying to get him to take the time to look. He clearly remembers his car having the slver Malibu paint being different than the others but cant recall w/o mouldings for sure. They were always on car when Heckert owned it, they looked about right amount of chipping for the miles, I put them back (NOS) based on car being known so far back. No interferance with side trim, I believe a Concours sedan had both mouldings also. If I get these old pictures that would clear it up, a small issue I guess.
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#4
12-06-2005, 09:11 PM
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Re: December '05 Feature Car
Thank You, I may run a couple more sets. I will post on the Restoration link if I do, after first of the year. They are difficult and expensive to do but super slick and a dead on repo, indetectable from an orig set.
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#5
12-06-2005, 09:26 PM
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Re: December '05 Feature Car
Those really are a nice accent.
I've seen a few of those sets made in the past by some home grown restorers. Their results are Very Good! They take the Current repop tips.Remove the Chrome plating. Bend & Weld round steel stock around the exit area to replicate the original design that was actually a rolled over lip.Clean up the area & Grind the weld flush to the extension tip body.Then have them polished & re-plated. Finding real ones is so hard,this makes sense today.
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#6
12-07-2005, 01:06 AM
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Re: December '05 Feature Car
If I recall correctly, wasn't Eric Gardner looking for an NOS tip to reproduce a couple of years ago? Maybe the process wasn't cost effective.
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#7
12-07-2005, 08:12 PM
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Re: December '05 Feature Car
My local guy that did the work on these originally has converted a couple sets for Gardner. He sent him the tips and he handled the chrome plating. They are really nice and catch your eye on the car.
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#8
12-09-2005, 04:51 AM
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Re: December '05 Feature Car
What was the production timeframe for the rolled tip??and when were they phased out by the non-rolled tip? It seems that so few cars have them today and the ones that do seem to have a wide range of build dates. I think they are way cool and would love a set on my car but with a 07B build I think its too late
 ALbert
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#9
12-09-2005, 06:32 AM
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Re: December '05 Feature Car
Put em on anyway. They really look nice, IMO.
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