Today was the day to swap the wheels & tires. While I like the look of the steelies with trim rings & '40 dog dish caps I really like Cragar SS wheels. They are just my first love, introduced in '65 the year I was graduating from High School, and the look just got burned into my brain as the wheel of choice.
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It turned out to be a very good thing that I decided to make the swap, as when I popped the dog dish cap off of the left front wheel I found three lug nuts finger tight I don't know how I failed to go back and torque them, but only two of five were snug, requiring some force to loosen. All I can say is that my Guardian Angel has been with me....
Got under the car, chasing rattles and found that the heat cycles of the exhaust had loosened a few clamps so I cinched them all down, then went around checking and tightening up everything I could see. I've still got rattles, but I'm pretty sure most of it is in the door latches. With no door panels the noise just uses the hollow spaces as amplifiers!
Also put on a cheapie shifter boot to cover the hole in the floor. It's amazing how much heat comes up through that open hole on a 100F day! Got a roll of foil covered bubble wrap at Lowe's the other day, to put on the floor before carpet to help block noise and heat. Gotta glue that down sometime, too.