Labor Day is almost here…

It has become clear we are not going to make our Labor Day tar­get date for roll out.  It has been a long hot sum­mer with one issue after another rais­ing their ugly heads.  On the busi­ness front staffing issues have caused chaos with sched­ul­ing tak­ing up way more of my time than expected and it is expected to con­tinue through­out the Fall sea­son.  Parts issues are hold­ing us back as well, ah well, you can’t rush perfection.

Gary at Cadil­lac Inter­na­tional  finally deliv­ered the rear fender mould­ing almost 2 Months after it was ordered.  In fair­ness, the piece looks like NOS and is beau­ti­ful, but it was a long wait.  When ordered, I explained I wanted a piece with no dents or dings and it seems he decided to send it out to be refur­bished though he told me it was in stock, so he was at the mercy of the re-finishing com­pany.  I feel kind of bad because he prob­a­bly spent close to what he sold it to me for to get it done and he and I had some heated dis­cus­sions before he told me the real story.  He tried to do the right thing and all would have been well had he told me what he was doing from the begin­ning.  Would I do busi­ness with him again, yes, but I would be sure to nego­ti­ate a firm deliv­ery date.

The new Amer­i­can Clas­sic radi­als arrived from Coker Tire yes­ter­day, more than 2 weeks later than I expected and will be put on this week.  The dash is still apart while we wait for a new vibra­tor tube for the radio, it was sup­posed to be here 2 weeks ago and we are not sure whether it is the actual cul­prit or not, so I don’t want to close every­thing up and then have to pull it apart again if the radio needs to come back out.

My biggest issue has now been resolved, the car has been run­ning rougher and rougher with a very bad dead spot on the throt­tle and then started stalling when the brakes were applied.  It was get­ting worse and no amount of tweak­ing the carb was improv­ing it.  I was con­vinced that it was a carb issue, so pulled it off and sent it back to the re-builder only to find no issues.  Fur­ther inves­ti­ga­tion revealed that when we con­verted the gen­er­a­tor to a one wire sys­tem alter­na­tor we wired the gen­er­a­tor light into the cir­cuit and it some­how was back­feed­ing power into the har­ness with the key off.  This caused the coil to be ener­gized 24/7 and appar­ently dam­aged it.  I reme­died the power back­feed by cut­ting out the gen light, installed a new coil, re-installed the carb, cranked her about 45 sec­onds to prime the fuel sys­tem and boom off she went.  She idles per­fect, seems to need noth­ing more than minor carb adjust­ments and we are ready to go.

I started assem­bling the front bumper and brack­ets and soon hope to roll her out to get an inspec­tion though inte­rior work still needs to be done.  All inspec­tion issues are OK, lights, direc­tion­als, horn, but the wipers are need­ing a lit­tle help and I will work on those soon.….……

back soon.…

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