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"One of them painted something in the garage and got over spray on my dash. I got it to buff out but what a pain in the rear....."

Aaagh!!

...and he's still alive?

...and breathing?

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Little progress is still progress,
and
that
is
all
good.

If that was mine I'd be as chuffed as a steam engine.

Re the third brake light...Bob Drake had the trunk trim for the '46-'48 Ford sedan with led lights in the letters F O R D that you could set up as brake lights.
I looked on his site but couldn't...

Nice one!
It's good to see someone you know get to be the winner...good on ya!

A good story.
You already know the history of the car; but to have original 'attachments' (as in the plate,) returned to it would really be the icing on the cake.

Good luck with getting the...

He was a redneck alright; even more so than I.
He was living in a rented house just south of Auckland and had been given a job just south of Opunake (which is ten miles from where we live,) and a...

Crikey but that sounds like my big tandem trailer too!
Someone would want to borrow it, I'd lend it, and when I wanted it I'd have to go looking for the blasted thing. Bob had lent it to Jim, who'd...

What he said.