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I stand corrected: It went "Boing" and not "Sproing."

Of course, the most important thing is to listen to what it sounds like when it lands, in case you don't see it. Then you can triangulate the coordinates, and also have an idea of the surface on which it lighted. If you don't hear anything then, naturally, you should've been watching closer.

amen to big kev and danL on ziplocks and diigital cameras. on the baggies i'vce found the zipper lock freezer quality is extra nice due to the thickness and ability to stay closed upside down. as for sizing nuts and bolts: ask a local autoparts store if you could purchase a thread sizer like the one the have on the floor. i got a napa to order mine and can't live without it. then you just need a lil spiral notepad to jot them down on and you're good.

Well GUY

replacing the chrome parts is not to bad so far. the Front grille is going to be the worst. With all that massive amount of body staring at you, one would think that there is plenty of room to work, but that grille is a bitch. The two main threaded rods that go thru the front cowl, in order to put the nuts on you either have to go thru the headlight opening in the fenders of up thru the bottom of the fenders btween the fender well and the outer fender. You have to go thru there anyway in order to apply the nuts to the chrome strip from the grille anyway so that is the way I am going. Besides I have a neighbor that helps me. He is thinner and younger and he owes me money so I am getting paid back by supplying all of the parts and telling him where to crawl thru to do whatever As for the price we were pretty much on target. He quoted me $4750 which included the floors. When it came time to do the floors, when they had to cut away some of it, it was revealed that there was more involved than they could possibly has seen in the beginning. He said that they had agreed to do the floors so that was that. I could have let it go at that but we were talking some serious time and effort so we talked it over and agreed to split it. So it cost me an extra $500. I felt that was fair. As far as them doing the chrome removal and re-install, that was not really feasable. I have had the car for about 2 months before I could afford the chrome, so the car would have had to sit there for that time and that would have been dangerous. Them moving it around and such it might have had an accident or something and then we would have been in a spitting war. All things considered I feel I came out good.

FATMIKE

Can you take a photo of the thread sizer you ordered from napa and post here?

well got the bumpers back together. The Front upper grille had a small problem with a busted bracket. However rather than going into a long explanation I will try to post picture and show the busted bracket, the fix and the layout to assemble.
P.S. This is the intact brackett on the other side.

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O.K.

Opinion time

This is a shot of the powder coated T/L housing with lenses
What does anyone think. This temporary until I can either afford a decent set of to be able to chrome good cores.

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Can anyone tell me what sort of rubber whatever goes on he two bracketts on the left and rightside. I do not remember taking anything off from therewhen I dis-assembled the car. And there are none on my 55 seniors. I do have the triangle rubber pieces that go on the the bottom of the tail-lights but this one is a mystery.

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