Cruise Night

Mary Lee and I breezed up to Amherst to ram­ble around the 1st cruise night of the sea­son at Atkins Farm.  There were about 70 cars there, made some new friends, met some old ones and gen­er­ally had a good time.  Dis­ap­pointed to see only one Caddy there (a ’61 sedan), it was OK, but not my taste, inte­rior was cus­tomized and had many body fit issues, espe­cially where the bumpers met the body.  I was shocked to learn it recently came out of the paint shop and the owner is now involved in a law­suit with the shop (can’t say I blame him).  Also saw a great ’57 wagon that too was re-done (last Fall) and been back to the shop sev­eral times for paint defects.  Seems like the major com­plaints are for body and paint, I’m not involved here, so the guilty shall remain name­less, but you can bet I will steer a wide berth around those Com­pa­nies.  I’m con­fi­dant we are not going in that direc­tion with our ven­dor, so far every­thing is going great, but only the final fin­ish will tell the tale.  I made a great con­nec­tion with an uphol­sterer to work on the inte­rior and have an appoint­ment to meet with her tomor­row, also got a chance to see some of her work and it looked great.

Front bumper is all set and awaits instal­la­tion and the com­ing weeks will keep me busy pol­ish­ing and buff­ing trim pieces that have not been refin­ished.  We’ll be ready to go when she is back from body and paint and really look for­ward to putting her back together again.  Unfor­tu­nately, another fam­ily emer­gency will require Mary Lee and I to jet off to Dal­las on very short notice, so we will again be away for a short while.

I’ll keep post­ing as able…

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