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    F Body Frame Connectors

    Like said above. A stock engine will twist them. I used to enjoy how they'd lift a little just from a 360 revving in neutral at a light. Today not so much. When they cut half the roof out and they were just asking for trouble with this platform. I don't have enough power to my garage for the...
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    F Body Frame Connectors

    T-bar cars can be very flexible. I don't blame you one bit for tying the rails together. 77's used to spit the driver side tops on the ground from body flex. Surely that's why they redesigned the whole t-bar. I was looking at a similar idea to the photo over the weekend. But with 2x2 Over the...
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    Anyone running a trailer hitch?

    I've got a few homemade bumper hitch contraptions around here. They all have some form of tube or pipe running to the two inside bumper shock to rail end bolts, then the hitch or receiver has a strap of steel across it's top that's bolted to the bottom of the bumper as well on each side. I used...
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    WANTED 80 Volare Floor Pan & Front Pillar

    Found out the hard way that 88-89 floor pan is different from earlier models also. I does fit but is only 100% compatible with column shift cars. Not sure when it changed, but do know 86 still has the console shifter pass thru bulge and correctly located and sized rubber body plugs. If using an...
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    WANTED Tilt Steering Column

    Hey you won't believe what I found while cleaning the garage yesterday. Do these connections look right? I remember when I got this in a load of parts F &M parts now, but never identified it to hang it upstairs. It's got wipers and cruise on the turn stalk, and this coffee brown color had to be...
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    WANTED 80 Volare Floor Pan & Front Pillar

    I just saved a driver side lower. Not sure if the whole thing was good in the area behind the fender or I was just saving it for the rolled shape where it meets the rocker in the jamb. But my most recent experience in shipping a batch of parts from US to NS didn't go so well. Not only was it...
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    Wiper Arm Pressure

    Your driver side seems to be resting on the secondary arm instead of the windshield. that would keep it from applying pressure to the blade. I know that down leg help keep the secondary arm in place, but I'd be making a slight modification of it toward the pivot shaft to allow the sprung arm...
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    Frame rails repair metal

    If you're going to chop a rear rail section out for replacement, Leave the K-member in place to maintain the side to side critical dimension while a rail is incomplete. Also, a rear section of a pass rail is much easier to get than a driver side. And they're all the same stuff back there. It's...
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    WANTED 1980 hood

    If you ever find your way up to Ohio. I've got several in stock. I'm sure shipping something so big would be beyond the cost of a round trip tho.
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    Wiper Arm Pressure

    Is your driver side secondary arm locator in place? I would think if not, that the entire drive section would be moved outward to where you'd have less pressure on the glass from a more compressed spring to reach the glass. Assuming the arm from similar year 5thA had good tension to glass when...
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    WANTED Tilt Steering Column

    There's a few 5thA's remaining in my local yard. But they've all been there at least 20 years, so not 100% certain I'd trust their electrical to be good, or which years which one's even are. But I am half way closer than IA. Personally, in that range I only have my 84 and 89 5th's, and also 86...
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    WANTED Tilt Steering Column

    Cool looking Dart! There's a pair of those being neglected on the other side of the country block from me along with a few mid 50's Packards. Given that the relationship of the firewall to back of engine should remain very similar across models, you shouldn't have linkage issues. The column...
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    Real or Fake?

    "Deep Fake"
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    Real or Fake?

    Yeah, politics is forbidden there. Including some in a post was corrected. But thanks for bringing up that one time... Might be spring but I still got the heat on making another F-body bite sized. This is # 2 of 5 on the schedule for as quick as I can get em thru.
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    Real or Fake?

    I'm learning all the time and don't declare myself to know more than others about the myriad minutia. If there's a way to be positive about something I do attempt to do that while sharing as much as I do know.
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    Real or Fake?

    REAL. There were a lot more landau topped Roadrunner's than R/T's though. I seem to recall seeing that one was orange in the color photos. Why is it watermarked? There's at least 3 photos of that car circulating as free content. Is this another one of those jerks who throws his own ownership on...
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    WANTED Tilt Steering Column

    You need to be a little more specific. Are looking to also fit a J-body? From my understanding, 80 is stand alone. 81-83 will plug and play into themselves. Are you looking to go to tilt, column shift? Do you have all the associated column shift linkages and different than floorshift kickdown...
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    WANTED 1981 Lebaron wagon tan leather front and rear seats wanted or upholstery

    Don't know if you got my text message. But now that I'm looking at pictures of this interior instead of just getting into it, it may actually already have been swapped in from a 5thA before I got it. I never really noticed that the rear back has fewer pleats than the front backs. I know the...
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    WANTED 1981 Lebaron wagon tan leather front and rear seats wanted or upholstery

    Finally got it to open. Internet being weird the past few days for me and many on this end of the country across multiple platforms and devices. You should have a text message now. But just yesterday I just received two messages to continue a previous but long dropped converstation from a good...
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    WANTED 1981 Lebaron wagon tan leather front and rear seats wanted or upholstery

    I'm having trouble opening your message on this device. I'll try this evening on another.
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    WANTED 1981 Lebaron wagon tan leather front and rear seats wanted or upholstery

    Driver seat has more wear than I was thinking. But still really comfy.
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    WANTED 1981 Lebaron wagon tan leather front and rear seats wanted or upholstery

    Man, that would be some expensive shipping from Ohio, whole. I know I could pull the hog rings off the rear base to save weight and size. Never disassembled a wagon rear top but I could learn. Swapping skins on others is easy enough. I've taken buckets apart for shipping, but haven't tried fixed...
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    Windshield trim

    When friends get to talking, it always goes sideways tangents once the original topic seems to be sastifried. I've always been good with it as long as the OP seemed to have gotten that staticfaction prior. For one thing, keeping a topic at the top through continued semi related discussion...
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    Windshield trim

    100% agree on how much nicer a new windshield is! You are So Right! Even after I sand and polish one, it's not "New" looking thru it. Even if the glass is smooth again, it's got 40 years UV degraded 1970's plastic between the pieces. But most of us are also on a budget and while new glass is...
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