The Not Quite Ready For New Hampshire Meet

Just got home a little while ago (after making several stops). Figured I'd better post these pics now before I forget. Door to door I clocked 480 miles on the ol' LeSabre this weekend! I had a real fun time, good to catch up with you guys.
 
On the parkway following Dave's Caddy

 
The cars... we just needed a B-body Pontiac and we would have had one of every brand!

 
Heading out for lunch...

 
This beautiful LaSalle showed up at the drive-in...

 
A full compliment of B's... Three successive generations represented!


 
Justin and myself about to go for a spin in my LeSabre...

 
Comparing wagon generations...

 
Afterwards, Dave's Cadillac almost disappears in a dust cloud on the dirt road to Indigo's house... this is no place for a clean black Caddy!

Nice! Sorry I couldn't make it. I'll try for the next one and there's always the Roundup

You guys went to Cindy's? That is so close to me. Next time I hope that my car isn't up on stands and half torn apart.

Now that you mention my caddy is leaning to the right, I can't un-see it!

Matt Trakker wrote:

Nice!  Sorry I couldn't make it.  I'll try for the next one and there's always the Roundup

's cool ked. We already talked about another one out here not to mention that roundup. I found and remembered a couple parks in town that dont suck and are free to get into that would work well.

Bull wrote:

You guys went to Cindy's?  That is so close to me.  Next time I hope that my car isn't up on stands and half torn apart.

Yup. Cruised from the state park to Cindys on the back roads thru Granby and Ludlow. We'll get ya next time!  

95brmw wrote:

Now that you mention my caddy is leaning to the right, I can't un-see it!

Then stop parking on a slant!

Looks like Dave has a blown taillights there, lol.

Lynol, that LeSabre looks great compared to the pics I've seen before. I have to say it must be a lot of fun just to drive around in that car, it's not all that rough really. I want something of that vintage that I can enjoy and not worry about someone opening their door into. Although if it got backed into, I'm sure you or I would flip the F out.  

Matt Trakker wrote:

Looks like Dave has a blown taillights there, lol.

Lynol, that LeSabre looks great compared to the pics I've seen before. I have to say it must be a lot of fun just to drive around in that car, it's not all that rough really. I want something of that vintage that I can enjoy and not worry about someone opening their door into. Although if it got backed into, I'm sure you or I would flip the F out.   

I noticed that too, how the hell did two bulbs go out?  

And as far the look of Lynol's car, this is what happened the day before (sorry, only got 2 pics)

"Prep work"


These plus Rustoleum  

You've gotta be kidding me, those nappy rollers did that? It came out great. I just did the worst paint job of my life in 3 minutes with flat black spray on the roof of the vinyl-topendectomied old Chrysler at my house, I thought it was looking okay until I saw that. LOL

Matt Trakker wrote:

You've gotta be kidding me, those nappy rollers did that?  It came out great.  I just did the worst paint job of my life in 3 minutes with flat black spray on the roof of the vinyl-topendectomied old Chrysler at my house, I thought it was looking okay until I saw that. LOL

No joke Matt, has to be one of the most half-assed paint jobs I ever took part in. It really does help the appearance of the car though

We'll have to get Lynol to do a "how to".

The paint on Lynols Buick looked great all cars looked nice had a lot of fun was such a beautiful day

Haha, yeah I roller painted it with 1/2" nap rollers and Rustoleum satin black oil based paint. The idea was to use a roller that would not leave a smooth texture so as not to accentuate the rough, uneven surface of the old paint. No I'm not proud of doing that, but the car looked so godawful before that doing this made a huge improvement. Just wanted it to be marginally presentable. My original intentions were to do this car right and fix it up and paint it legit, but recently I lost the storage space I had and the guy ran off leaving me out 13 months rent. So I have to sell it now since I don't have the budget to re-pay for winter storage.

Oh and Dave don't worry, in that pic your left turn signal was on, I caught it between flashes.

lynol wrote:

Haha, yeah I roller painted it with 1/2" nap rollers and Rustoleum satin black oil based paint. The idea was to use a roller that would not leave a smooth texture so as not to accentuate the rough, uneven surface of the old paint. No I'm not proud of doing that, but the car looked so godawful before that doing this made a huge improvement. Just wanted it to be marginally presentable. My original intentions were to do this car right and fix it up and paint it legit, but recently I lost the storage space I had and the guy ran off leaving me out 13 months rent. So I have to sell it now since I don't have the budget to re-pay for winter storage.

Oh and Dave don't worry, in that pic your left turn signal was on, I caught it between flashes.

Both of us got burned by that guy  

Thanks for the reassurance, I thought my fiber optics started lying to me  

I thought that looked like satin black, but figured it was just old faded blue or green paint and bad lighting.

Too cool!

Now I want it.

Don't you sell it without letting me know first! Seriously.

toomanytoyz wrote:

Don't you sell it without letting me know first! Seriously.

It's a wicked cool car, lots of potential. Little rough on the edges but a nice easy fix i'd say. Plus, it rides like a bag full of fluffernutter with pillows made of tires.

Cadet57 wrote:

toomanytoyz wrote:

Don't you sell it without letting me know first! Seriously.

It's a wicked cool car, lots of potential. Little rough on the edges but a nice easy fix i'd say. Plus, it rides like a bag full of fluffernutter with pillows made of tires.

I almost bought a Buick Centurion because of his car, I like being able to drop the roof on my Sebring, but everything else about the car is just meh. Nothing rides like that yacht.

I still want it.

Especially if it'll cruise at 75 with the top down and get better than 14mpg. (Which is WAAY better than my two daily driven pieces of shit will do)

Hearing this makes me hate how the '74 Impala rides, and it has essentially the same chassis and suspension as that car. Mine rides like a WW2 army jeep because I put cargo coils in the back and Bilsteins. I think I need to put stock springs and a sway bar back there. It does handle nice though, no nausea-inducing Queen Mary tendencies. It's almost as good as the SS. I just don't want to have to wear one of those kidney belts that monster truck drivers have.