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Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Suburbs of fabulous Lerna IL
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Been a couple weeks since my last report, mainly because this is a super busy time of year for me as far as the pinball business. Lots happening in late March and all thru April in that world. And in what spare time I did have recently, the winds were howling across the prairie making it nearly unbearable to do what I really wanted to do on the car which was to try and get the hood prepped for paint so the whole car could be red again. (Even though the overall paint quality of the car is certainly not what I'd call good, that blue hood just bugs the crap out of me). So instead, I settled on doing some more mop-up tasks in between frequent excursions to go get more pinballs gathered up from sellers for eventual transport to their new owners out east at a major show in Allentown Pa coming up in early May. After that though, it's full speed ahead on race car!
These last couple week's fascinating work included things like re-engineering an old factory AMC radio to fit into the dash properly and getting the antique Sun gauge cluster mounted. Doesn't sound like these should be something that hogged up an entire evening and one afternoon to get mounted, but they sure did. After all, it takes some time to go through your pile of spare AMC radios and weigh them all to see which one you gotta have! When I selected the lightest one and got all done, the look of the dash improved a lot, and I only have one more empty hole left to fill on the center pod of the dash. A lighted fuel pump toggle switch is slated to go there when I get to the fuel system re-do someday. Initially I'll be running off the regular factory fuel pump and gas tank just to get the car mobile, so it's not like it's a hurry up thing. If I could just quit that regular day job...I'd have a lot more time! (but no money) A few shots of the recent work shown here...Still looking for my matching Sun water temp gauge I *know* I have stashed somewhere so it can mount to the left side of the 3-gauge panel. The matching fuel pressure gauge and it's chrome cup will go on the outside of the car of course.
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Brian Saunders Lerna IL '79 AMX T/SA 3790 currently being resurrected |
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