Mounds.

I see it all the time. Those big, tall skinny shifters help hide the fact, but it does offend my delicate sensibilities to see a ’50s or ’60s style rod sporting an auto trans. Wouldn’t necessarily mind trading places with them, though, when crawling through downtown traffic or, like yesterday, when situated on the ramp leaving Lowes and unable to…[Read more]

Hmmm. I’ll be watching to learn on this one. I wonder if the remaining ‘glass parts are light enough to be practically removed by you and a buddy.

I love these stories!

Oh man. Good luck. we’re behind ya.

Nice job!

Hey Mark, ditto what Larry said re Moss’s TD interior kit. The guy who tried it gave me the stuff left over from his kit after he did the seats–which worked fine, he said. The door panels would not work in his or mine. They were just a bit too large in some dimensions and too small in others. Heart breaking, really, as it’s a very fine kit. The…[Read more]

Be careful, Roadie. And good luck.

Larry. I think I’m gonna want your side curtain patterns, particularly if they’re going on your BCW.

Sounds like it’s in the ball park, said the man who had two new convertible tops put on his Pontiac in the early-mid 2000s. Those were about $800 each.

Anyone hear from Wobby? He had some bad flooding earlier this year, I believe.

She stops good & straight now. No more sticky.

Pops had a ’38 Phaeton–4-door convertible–some time before the Volvo. Mom says he used to wear a top hat when he drove it. As they slowed toward the town square she’d start singing the Miss America theme to announce herself.

I gotta go out & mend fence. Otherwise, no damage.

Didn’t want to burn it with the stick welder.

Housemate in the early 1990s drove in with a ’66 Volvo wagon. Wasn’t in bad shape either, but hardly practical as an everyday car by that time. The water pump went in the first week, and she wanted to fix it herself, so I helped her do it. Not that hard a job. The car went at least another year but I don’t remember what became of it after that.My…[Read more]

So my parts came in–new springs all-round, new rear shoes–and I pulled off the front wheels to see what was what.Passenger side adjuster was broken.There’s this little sheet metal springy thing that lays over the star wheels, apparently to keep them from turning on their own once you adjust them?Yeah, that thing. It was broken off. I found it…[Read more]

Motor was from a Volvo P-1800. It was called the B-18b and it had twin SUs like the xpag, but made 100 horsepower stock and there was a lot more in it. Plus you could get an overdrive transmission. Very smart and very common early ’60s swap to liven up by-then obsolete TDs, though it’s not much seen today–and it makes the MG purists crazy with contempt.

Looking good. 

Buttoned down in Baltimore. Plants are mostly in the screen porch. Pulled up a pool-sized tarp I was using to kill everything growing on our backyard hill, so it wouldn’t blow away. Brought in the gas grills.Got the boat battery on trickle charge in case I need it for the sump pump backup. With the daily drivers and Bridget that’ll make five…[Read more]