More Bling | restoration of a 1958 Cadillac Extended Deck Sedan
Jul
03

More Bling

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It’s been a busy week, but when time was avail­able I have been busy putting more shiney stuff on the “Gray Lady”.  At this stage, the rear bumper is hung, aligned and adjusted.  The trunk vee, bezel, seal and lock are installed, along with the tail lights, tail light bezels and the fin trim.  The left front wheel well trim is on along with the front end lip trim on the fend­ers, hood and the hood orna­ment is on too.

I also spent many hours pol­ish­ing and installing the wind­shield and rear win­dow trim pieces, who knew instal­la­tion would be so tuff.  Geez, installing a wind­shield on this beast would be a two day project.  As time per­mits Sun­day and Mon­day I will begin to add the side body, door trims and rocker pan­els.  It will be time con­sum­ing rebuild­ing the doors, the win­dow motors, elec­tric locks, door han­dles and latches all need to be installed, along with all of the new rub­ber.  It takes time but man she sure is start­ing to look like a car again.  I promise when I roll her out of the garage again I’ll get some bet­ter pho­tos from a bet­ter angle.  Won’t be long now.…

While the inte­rior is out I’ve decided to mod­ify the sound sys­tem.  The orig­i­nal won­der­bar radio works and we will leave it be so the car can stay orig­i­nal, but I am going to install a small amp either up under the dash or the back seat that will accept input from my IPod and allow me to play­back through the car speak­ers which we may upgrade.  My elec­tron­ics wiz is work­ing on a work­able plan now, after all I can’t go crusin’ with­out the proper tunes.

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