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Original 1980 Console Screws: What color?

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Old Jul 27, 2011 | 06:01 AM
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awesome!! glad i was able to help out! they do look nice in there! i really love the oem original look and feel!
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Old Jul 27, 2011 | 10:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Banzai
Your boots look good too Glen. What is that plugged into the lighter?
Thanks... I'm quite pleased with the Redline boots, outside of their lack of floor attachment provisions on the e-brake boot. I still need to install carpet snaps on the e-brake boot - got the proper snaps, looking for the time.

The thing in the lighter is a plastic dust cap that says "DC 12 V" on it. It just snaps in when the outlet isn't in use.

I have the pristine original lighter stashed way at home, as this is firmly a 'no smoking' car. The empty socket looks kind of naked, though, & the light is too bright at night. I find those euro-icon "no smoking" lighter plugs to be just a little too cliche'. This was a good compromise, I decided.
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Old Aug 14, 2011 | 01:51 PM
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Finally got a decent daylit pic, while at MazFest yesterday:

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Old Aug 14, 2011 | 02:52 PM
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Mazfest! you guys out west get all the cool shows..
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Old Aug 17, 2011 | 03:22 AM
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Looks like you just bought it off the shelf Glen - which is the point I suppose

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Old Aug 17, 2011 | 09:41 AM
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Yep;

It must be some hidden masochist streak in me, that I will work tirelessly at a project that, when it works out, becomes "invisible."

Next one on the plate will be home electroplating of lost/damaged chrome on the lug inserts in my waffles. Many years of on'n'off have worn the plating thru in places.

Still have the SA bin-bag patterns to publish, documentation of swapping the rear axle seals for you, and write-up of replicating the chrome trim for '80 door armrests.

All projects that nobody else will ever notice when done proper.

I'm nuts, I tell ya.
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Old Aug 17, 2011 | 10:47 AM
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We are all a little nuts.

Looking good.
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Old Aug 18, 2011 | 02:55 AM
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Originally Posted by DivinDriver
I'm nuts, I tell ya.
Agreed - but in the Good Way.


look forward to further invisible projects!

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Old Aug 18, 2011 | 03:13 AM
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it's all good, if I had a 7 worth restoring, I'd go through all that effort also. as long as it's worth it to me, I've always done it

to bad mine is a Frankenseven.
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