@CBoz

Playing "hide the emblem" with LeBaron

CBoz · 2018-01-25T16:13:15.000Z

*Finally* starting into the restoration of my '38 K roadster. I was pulling the sidemounts off last night, and there was the LeBaron emblem, currently covered with overspray and buried way down in the passenger-side corner where you can't see it behind the sidemount. Since my car originally came with sidemounts, this tells me someone painted the body and put the emblem on before they knew what style front fenders were going on. As much as I would like to have the emblem where I can see it, I think I'll keep it there /emoticons/default_wink.png" srcset="/emoticons/wink@2x.png 2x" title=";)" width="20" loading="lazy">

Jan 25, 2018 (edited)895 views

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· Jan 27, 2018

My coupe has it in the same place. I think it was originally nickel plated too, definitely not painted body color.

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· Jan 27, 2018

K8096Jan 27, 2018
My coupe has it in the same place. I think it was originally nickel plated too, definitely not painted body color.

I can't remember -- did your car have sidemounts originally?

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· Jan 27, 2018

Yes, it did.

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· Jan 27, 2018

Doing some top-end diagnosis before we start pulling things apart: https://www.facebook.com/Ron.Earp/videos/10215521447099029/

Cold and hot compression numbers not bad, but definitely need to go in and do some rings / clean-up work.

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· Jan 31, 2018

Are you going full boat? I don't know if I have many/any more of those in me.

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· Jan 31, 2018

alsancleJan 31, 2018
Are you going full boat? I don't know if I have many/any more of those in me.

Yep, but this'll be it. The '66 Mustang (my first car) was my undergrad degree, the Zephyr was my masters, and this will be my PhD

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· Feb 1, 2018

Well, you picked a nice car to go all in on.

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