Outstanding...you deserve every bit of praise and acknowledgement for a job well done.

Sixball, looking at spinners since i put them on and they are staying. The stock center caps Vette/Monte/Chevelle just boring. Way back when i built my 57 i had ordered 2 diff sets if these, straight ear and swept ear. I tried the swept ear first it didn't look right so i kept the traight ear on it. Years later i built my 59 Elky, the swept ear looked great on it. The guy that bought my Elky went with skinny craigars style wheels and give me my complete Vette ralleys back, theses are those.

Weds afternoon i barrowed a bore scope to check out my gas tank, smelt terrible in there, but scope showed empty and clean except for center rib which had a dark color with some galvy color still down it. Good enough to leave alone. I'm going to run a wix metal canister filter before pump.  I got my new cap/coil/rotor kit and plug wire set yesterday, but battery hasn't come yet. I went down to my buddy Travis' parts house/shop and got a new set of AC plugs, nice i still get parts for cost there, they were $13.20 for the set😁  We were talking about my a/c, i told him Tom was going to brinh his vac pump over and suck the system down to check for leaks then i was just going to charge system with r152a (Officehub air duster, 8.25 for 10oz can at Dollar General) to see that everything worked (or don't). I'd been pricing r12a/Freeze 12, dang Freeze 12 up to $75 10z now, if you can spot it. Travis got a thinking look on his face, made a call, then asked if i was in a hurry, said i'll be right back. Jumped in his truck and came back with seven 8oz cans of Redtek 12a replacement. Said his father in laws building was getting sold and they needed everything out. I asked how much, free, they were going to through away. Score!

Tom came back over lastnight, pulled my plugs, they all were the same, no oil on any just kind of sooty. Oiled cylinders, pulled cap/rotor and put a little lighter springs on weights. We put a dead batt in with charger, turned over slow but probably within a few seconds the oil light went out👍 tried some of the cars electrical functions, a slow wake up. Flipping switches on/off several times then they are coming back to life. Lights finally came back on, blinkers/brake/park/back ups with excepton of a couple burnt up bulbs.

Tom will come back as soon as i get battery, put new plugs/wires cut in fuel filter and we'll try a start up.  I'm sure glad i have him on my pre paid lifetime mechanical contract😁  Him working on this car makes it look like a 7/8s scale. Lol he's 6'4" tall and was rather uncomfortable under the hood.

I've been driving the Buick most of the summer and also daily trips to town in my '69 Beetle.
Not the best for hauling materials, but I've been able to haul  78" long steel in it for my table
 project, I made a new table for my little lathe.

The TransAm has been acting up all summer.
Pic shows usual stance this season. The clutch slave was shot, so I put in a new one, it
also leaked power steering fluid, turned out it was actually the pump that was leaking, I took
one off an Olds engine. It looked the same and almost fit, but the "almost" made it take two
days to get sorted. One of those projects where every time you find a
solution for one issue a new one turns up .
Then it lost spark. New Hei module did the trick. Two days later, no spark again. This time the
coil wasn't grounded, just a loose screw, took a while to find the problem.
Then the engine over heated, the coling fan wouldn't turn on. Probably a long time issue.
I cut away the moving partfrom the thermostat, put the rest back in, but to no avail. Turns
out one or two of the head gaskets failed. It turned into a total project. 15 miles or so
driven all summer.

I tried on one of the rear wheels I first had on the Buick, 275/60-15 on black steelies. I like
that look a lot better than the Borbet 17" wheels with 275/40-17s. Maybe if I find some
steelies for the front I'll change to 15" black steelies instead of the wheels that make it look
like a fake Ferrari. Maybe next summer.

There was a lot of talk on a couple 2nd gen Camaro sites on max tire/wheel combos. Most saying 235/r60 15s where best. Some were up in the air on Vette 8" wide rallys but some said 4.25 to 4.5 back space was good. My fronts have 235/6015s so just right. My rears are pushing the ultamate  clearence problem, 295/r50 15".  I have 3/4" clearance on rear shocks to tire and 1.5" clearance to my rear springs.

Sorry, had to bail before i loaded pics. Tom showed up to help.
They actually fit. I'm as happy as a tick on a harry dog again😁

He got my oil finished flushing. Cut oil filter apart, (Fram😡) mainly very old oil with a lot of carbon. Oil old enough and piece of crap Fram, the media in it was just disinagrating. We dumped gas/marvel flush out to a separate pan  just black no chunks. Ran a magnet thru it couple little sparkles but that was it. He went on to check all my front suspenion, all tight. Good news so far. All my new battery be here tomorrow, tune up stuff gets here thursday/friday.

Then he talked me into putting the fronts on. Ya, its starting to take on my personality. Got that Z/28 thing going on. Don't laugh at my 3-bar swept wing spinners. Tom don't like them, think i do. They were off my '59 Elcamino.

I'll give those strings a try. I need new ones any way.
 Yeah, Guitar poor. Besides the 000-18 1942 Martin I have the '40s-'50s Harmony F hole my folks got for my brother and me when i was 9 ('54), a big black Ibanez I got new in '80, a probably '50s Stella 12 string. It makes me shudder to think of restringing it. There is probably a 100 year old small Orpheus that had all the notes painted on the fretboard. The original owner had a ranch near Coleville CA and ordered it from a catalog. I guess by the time the paint wore off you were supposed to know how to play it. There are a few more around + a banjo, fiddle, and mandolin. I inherited a classical nylon strung guitar from a guy I played with quite a bit. The first time I took it out to play it played Don's version of  "Michelle". A song I don't know. It scared the shi#! out of me. I put it back in the case and drove it up to Virginia City and gave it to another of Don's friends.

! had the Stella out today and couldn't do much.  I beat my hands up pretty well yesterday moving the 4 heavy pieces of a cast water feature we got to help filter our pond. We'll see what tomorrow brings.

Is there any way to get  some citric acid on that wheel? It eats rust fast , a few hours. It doesn't hurt paint or chrome and won't even remove grease well. Food grade citric acid is at the grocery store with the canning stuff. About a 1/2 cup in a gallon of water should be strong enough. Squirt it where it can work its way to the rust. Maybe soak a rag and lay it over the lugs. You may have to rinse it off and reapply. It is not concrete friendly but a little won't hurt Just tune it off. It is safe and won't hurt you, pets, or grass. Cheap and worth a try. You'll need to neutralize the treated areas with baking soda & water to prevent rerusting.