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Offline Mark Ascher

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Re: 65 4-Speed Restoration
« Reply #90 on: August 09, 2011, 07:22:45 PM »
We assembled the door and quarter reveal mouldings last night. It is good to have one of your best friends work as a mechanical engineer. Specialized tools used were a rivet "squeezer" (I don't know the technical name), a notching tool, and a hand held hole punch. The Steele weatherstrips needed holes made for the screws that hold them to the body, and for the plastic parts that were riveted on the originals. The mouldings themselves were polished and re-anodized some years ago. See pictures below.

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Re: 65 4-Speed Restoration
« Reply #91 on: September 26, 2011, 04:47:26 PM »
Mr. Brian Stone arrived in St. Paul Thursday evening, Sept. 23 for a weekend of thrashing on the GS.
We started bright & early on Friday. Then Dan Ankeny arrived, and later had a surprise for us.
I don't know why he's laughing in the pic, probably something I didn't tighten up.
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Re: 65 4-Speed Restoration
« Reply #92 on: September 26, 2011, 04:51:28 PM »
Loren Alexander drove up from Nebraska, and helped out all weekend too. Engine was getting close to complete
later on Friday. Clutch linkage is shown with the Buick Farm repro boot (thanks Doug!) and the felt washer
is new. They are available! if anyone needs one, contact me.

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Re: 65 4-Speed Restoration
« Reply #93 on: September 26, 2011, 05:00:31 PM »
Brian screwing the instrument panel together. The engine is close to complete in photo 2.
Some other car showed up - unknown make & model. Melissa liked it though I guess.
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Re: 65 4-Speed Restoration
« Reply #94 on: September 26, 2011, 05:04:39 PM »
Engine fired up, about 7:30 pm on Saturday. All sounded well, but we had to escape the fumes in the garage
after 5 minutes or so. The timing and carb was set and cam break-in was finished on Sunday. That led to it's
first drive in 18 years. Windshield went in after that, and the second drive was better without the wind in my face!
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Re: 65 4-Speed Restoration
« Reply #95 on: September 26, 2011, 05:09:12 PM »
GS Crew in photo L-R: Rob, Brian, Mark, Jay
« Last Edit: September 28, 2011, 07:01:07 PM by Mark Ascher »
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Re: 65 4-Speed Restoration
« Reply #96 on: September 26, 2011, 05:34:49 PM »
I almost forget. A huge THANKS to Brian, Loren, Dan (thanks for the carb!) Rob & Jay.
Loren has been involved with this since the beginning - an unbelievable 20 years ago.
I met Brian early in the V8Buick days, he lived in the same town in NC as my in-laws.

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Re: 65 4-Speed Restoration
« Reply #97 on: September 27, 2011, 01:40:27 AM »
Mark, it looks Great! wish I could have come up for the test fire ,you had almost the whole crew there! :rocker: Jon
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Re: 65 4-Speed Restoration
« Reply #98 on: September 29, 2011, 07:21:54 AM »
Videos of the first drive:



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Re: 65 4-Speed Restoration
« Reply #99 on: September 29, 2011, 08:20:49 AM »
Great video Brian !! Not quite the same as being there but close. Thanks for posting it.

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Re: 65 4-Speed Restoration
« Reply #100 on: October 02, 2011, 12:00:15 PM »
Mark, congrats on getting your car back together. :hello2: :occasion14:
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Re: 65 4-Speed Restoration
« Reply #101 on: October 13, 2011, 11:49:21 AM »
Hi Jon, wish you could have been here too! We missed John as well.
Thanks Tom!

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Re: 65 4-Speed Restoration
« Reply #102 on: October 19, 2011, 05:46:00 PM »
I'm going to try one of these thermostat housings. Seals with an o-ring.

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Re: 65 4-Speed Restoration
« Reply #103 on: October 19, 2011, 05:56:14 PM »
We were just talking about the need for an "O" ring solution like that .
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Re: 65 4-Speed Restoration
« Reply #104 on: October 20, 2011, 11:26:20 AM »
Loren,

I was looking for an original type thermostat gasket, not some universal fit deal, and stumbled across that.
That was my first thought - we had just talked talked about it. Once it's painted green, and the fuel filter
bracket is bolted on, it should be almost unnoticeable.

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