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Originally Posted by randyr

Personally, I think "stainless" is kinda neutral and would be a nice accent between the red & black. You only have the trim pieces for the hood and the grill that are stainless, right?

I am not going to put any trim around my grille so the only stainless would be on the hood sides. Soon I will have to tape them on to see what they would look like.

Originally Posted by randyr

......... The 4door with the suicide doors could make a cool cruizer if done right.

Yeah, especially if you wear a wide brim hat with a feather, and have huge gold rings on every finger of your hand.

Originally Posted by Mr Smith

Bob does this car by chance have air bag suspension? The reason I ask is some years back my dad had one that he started to have work done too in Arizona and the bags were one thing that I can remember from pics he sent me. I believe it was in black primer when he traded it for 56 chev delivery wagon.

hope you can get past the bitterness of your 36. These things are enough work without something like that hanging over you every time you try working on them.

No, it has typical coil overs in the back. I've been saved! The seller worked hard, even bombed the price another couple grand, but I just don't have the room, so now some guy in Portland has bought it. Maybe he'll get it done finally...........or maybe in a couple more years it will pop up again to tempt me.

Yeah, I'll get back on it hard again some day, but in order to fix the biggest problem I've got to do a body removal AGAIN which I just hate with finished paint work done.

Being able to make comments between pictures is done by using photo links (such as photobucket or the like) and typing comments between the links.

As for the trim on the hood, if it were mine I'd paint the strips body color. That would give texture without distracting. To my eye both the black and the polished stainless would pop out too much interupting the visual flow by stopping the eye. At the front or on the bottom the black works because it forms a visual frame on the perimeter, but in the "middle" of the body they're a disruptor.

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

As for the trim on the hood, if it were mine I'd paint the strips body color. That would give texture without distracting. To my eye both the black and the polished stainless would pop out too much interupting the visual flow by stopping the eye. At the front or on the bottom the black works because it forms a visual frame on the perimeter, but in the "middle" of the body they're a disruptor.

I don't know if I would have ever thought about painting them the body color. Thanks Bob.

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

Yeah, especially if you wear a wide brim hat with a feather, and have huge gold rings on every finger of your hand.

Bob, how did you know that was my favorite attire??? NOT!

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

As for the trim on the hood, if it were mine I'd paint the strips body color. That would give texture without distracting. To my eye both the black and the polished stainless would pop out too much interupting the visual flow by stopping the eye. At the front or on the bottom the black works because it forms a visual frame on the perimeter, but in the "middle" of the body they're a disruptor.

Yeah, I like that idea, too!

Hey guys, what heat/air unit is everyone using these days? I am upgrading my 48' sedan and wanting a good unit for her.

I used Vintage Air. Works great, not that difficult to install or wire.

Originally Posted by brickman

Hey guys, what heat/air unit is everyone using these days? I am upgrading my 48' sedan and wanting a good unit for her.

I used Old Air. Their unit is a lot more compact than any other I found.http://www.oldairproducts.com/catalog/index.php

Got my bumpers and lights on. Hit a real snag with my brake lights. It turns out that the steering column I used has a separate circuit for the brake lights and turn signals. and with my tail lights I have no way to separate them. So I just ordered a long 3rd brake light from Watson's that has sequential turn signals on the outside and the brake light in the middle. The only reason I went with that column was to save money but this just messed that up.

Wow that thing looks finished sitting there! What size tail light did you go with again? Mine are the 12" and it is actually two strips of LEDs tied together. The top 4" or so for turn signals, but I suppose you either don't have LEDs or have a smaller, single LED strip.

Originally Posted by 35fordcoupe

Wow that thing looks finished sitting there! What size tail light did you go with again? Mine are the 12" and it is actually two strips of LEDs tied together. The top 4" or so for turn signals, but I suppose you either don't have LEDs or have a smaller, single LED strip.

Well that figures. Mine are 9" with only one LED strip. I thought about putting another strip in but I don't think it would make a good separation when the blinkers and brakes would be on at the same time.

I'm not sure this is an option (especially since you have already bought something else) but in my kit came a small section of wire - two into one. I forget what they called it right now, but both hot wires connect to the "one" and on the "two" end one goes to blinker and the other goes to brake. It seems to me that if they had provided you with those little guys you would be able to wire directionals and brakes seperately. I still have not wired the brake lights (only did the third light and looked at the other two), but I assume the top will blink and with the brakes on the bottom will be solid. In your case with one strip of LEDs I would assume it would be wired the same as mine, but you would have no brake light while a signal is on? I could be wrong...did you try calling hagan to see what your options are?

In order to have the brake lights and blinkers work on the same circuit your blinker switch has to have what is called an interrupter built into it. Most switches have that unless the car is designed to run the brake lights to a separate bulb. In Hagens directions it says that you will need another light if your switch doesn't have an interrupter but I skimmed right over that when I installed mine thinking it did. And of course I didn't start my wiring until after I painted the car. I doubt that yours will separate the blinkers the way you think they will. If they did there would be some sort of gusset in the bucket so the lights wouldn't bleed together.

Well I hope I have an interrupter because I would rather the whole lense light up as one for either signal lights or brakes. If the LED strips work seperately like I was thinking I thought the intensity of the LEDs would prevent the lights from bleeding together as much. Now I'm curious so I'll probably wire them this weekend and see what happens.

Let me know what you find out.

Oh I don't know what type of column you have but if the wires are not marked make sure you find out which blinker wires are designated for the rear otherwise they won't work right.