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Originally Posted by rspears

Much less waste with the detail gun!
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I have one of these too!

On small scratches I use an airbrush, even less waste.

Tired of driving blind behind I added an interior mirror. Had to aggressively grind the mounting button to compensate for the windshield angle, but got it to work! I did learn that the double side 3M dot that they supplied doesn't work and that gap filling super glue doesn't hold either but the special mirror adhesive does great, at least so far!
The peeps mirrors, even with convex stick on's left a huge blind spot right behind. Gonna feel safer now!
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That should help a bunch, Roger, looks good on the windshield, too! Decent mirrors on a small coupe have always been a challenge, I think you nailed it!

I had one of those mirrors on my '29 roadster as well as two outside mirrors. It was an important addition for rear views.

Today was the day to swap the wheels & tires. While I like the look of the steelies with trim rings & '40 dog dish caps I really like Cragar SS wheels. They are just my first love, introduced in '65 the year I was graduating from High School, and the look just got burned into my brain as the wheel of choice.
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It turned out to be a very good thing that I decided to make the swap, as when I popped the dog dish cap off of the left front wheel I found three lug nuts finger tight I don't know how I failed to go back and torque them, but only two of five were snug, requiring some force to loosen. All I can say is that my Guardian Angel has been with me....
Got under the car, chasing rattles and found that the heat cycles of the exhaust had loosened a few clamps so I cinched them all down, then went around checking and tightening up everything I could see. I've still got rattles, but I'm pretty sure most of it is in the door latches. With no door panels the noise just uses the hollow spaces as amplifiers!
Also put on a cheapie shifter boot to cover the hole in the floor. It's amazing how much heat comes up through that open hole on a 100F day! Got a roll of foil covered bubble wrap at Lowe's the other day, to put on the floor before carpet to help block noise and heat. Gotta glue that down sometime, too.

Big improvement, Roger. I'm a fan of five-spoke wheels as well and grew up about the same time period you did. Those Cragar SS wheels were always a favorite of mine, too.

I agree, Cragar SS... who needs anything else!?!?! LOL. I guess you can tell where I stand on the topic. LOL

And very nice to hear you stumbled across loose fasteners while in the driveway! The alternative makes me shiver!

Cragar SS have always been the look of class.
My vote too.

Love it, you cant beat a Cragar SS or a Torq Thrust

My first car in high school was a 68 mustang with Cragar SS mags. Back in the late 70's early 80's we didn't think much about wheel thieves, so when I went to school on a Monday to pickup my Mustang out of the autoshop parking lot(It had been at school while I was putting the rebuilt engine back in over the weekend) , image my surprise seeing no Cragar's and instead 4 milk crates! Always loved those mags. Karma will get that person in the end!

Well, at least they left it on crates. I've seen them sitting on the ground. Guess they just kick it off the jack. Amazing how much effort and danger a thief will go to.

Great choice Roger! Cragar's are the "right" wheel for anything in the 30's, IMO they should be mandatory on highboy roadsters!

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Cragar's , IMO they should be mandatory on highboy roadsters!

They are! Didn't you get the memo?

I changed emails, better notify them, huh?