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West, yes, we are forgoing the fender skirts as I think they make the car look very backheavy. They have been spoken for and are traveling to Hershey with me.

Cheap fix for sagging seat coil springs..... Pool Noodles.

So the seat in the 37 sags horribly. To the point where by wife has to sit on a couple of cushions to even drive it.

So I pulled the seat bottom out and I can see where Mark had jammed foam into coils towards the rear where it holds the most weight to try to help with the sag.

But that foam was not rigid enough. So searching around online, I found a post where someone had firmed up a badly sagging seat with pool noodles. We had two of them left in the basement from some beach day in the past. So I cut them into 8" lengths and corkscrewed them into the coils where the most weight would concentrated. I left the foam that Mark had added in place to help keep the pool noodles in place. I also wire tied some of the coils together. Pool noodles, especially when compressed along their length are very dense and stiff.

This pretty much eliminated the sag and firmed up the seat in those area. Eventually I'll replace the coils when the seats go for upholstery in the distant future. But for now, its a cheap bandaid. I need to buy a few more noodles next time I am out to do all the coils.

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Happy to report the pool noodles made a world of difference. They may actually be a bit too firm and I may need to trim them slightly.

One more thing I’d never of thought of. Glad it worked!

It's hacky for sure, but is a decent bandaid until it can be properly sorted.

Birds eye view..... taken by someone with a drone at a cruise night on Friday. This was a screen shot from a large picture. So pretty grainy. But you can make out the 54 and the 37 parked next to it.

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Very cool! I can’t wait to get my car running so I can get it out to events like that.

You'll be there soon!

A little side project so my spare bulbs and fuses are not rattling around in my glovebox.

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That's pretty cool Kev! Love the box.