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Quote from: cbrown on November 28, 2020, 07:41:29 PM
Eric,  you are missing out if you do not know Ed!   
He is a special individual.
Maybe reach out to Nate who is on the forms here also he can hook you up
Chris

I looked in the member list and if you put Meyer it comes up with nothing.  If someone knows what he posts under I will PM him.  This car looks good but given how many times it has been through the auction I am dubious that it is really a good car.

Quote from: propayne on November 28, 2020, 06:45:37 PM
Ed Meyer.

He is on here.

- Phillip

Thanks

Quote from: Rickmustang on November 28, 2020, 09:31:12 AM
Take Ed with you.

If I knew who Ed was I would contact him.  The car is high priced enough that there is no way I would buy it without someone who knows what they are doing.

Thanks for the info.  Trying to figure out how that car was on Ebay for a while, as recently as a month ago, and now if you look in completed auctions it is nowhere to be found?

I am thinking of going to look at this car.  There was one that looked identical that ran on Ebay for a while but I am not sure if it was the same one.  It is at a car dealer in Dallas who I know nothing about.  Here is the link but the website is clunky - at least for me I have to let the site stay open for a bit before I can click on it.  I have not seen a KK number on the car and, quite frankly, I don't know a ton about the Boss 429 other than the obvious.  If any of you can give me any information on this car I would be appreciative.  At $279K it is on the higher side of life but it claims to be a fresh restoration from an unknown restorer so I am dubious that it is correct. 


https://www.earthmotorcars.com/used/Ford/1969-Ford-Mustang+Boss+429-for-sale-dallas-fort-worth-texas-abdb07730a0e0a6b3fdb7a8a6db5d663.htm?mycarsr=vdp-recentCars

Quote from: Bob Gaines on November 27, 2020, 09:10:42 PM

Quote from: 1109RWHP on November 27, 2020, 08:33:34 PM
How do you restore a rubber shifter boot?

I think Eric meant the boot on the restored car that JC had a hand in doing and not a restored individual boot. FYI I think that that smooth boots are the Hurst boots .

Bob your interpretation of my post was spot on.

Mine has pebble grain.  My car was restored by Shelby Parts & Restoration so it is most likely correct.

Quote from: Bob Gaines on November 23, 2020, 03:55:22 PM

Quote from: eric lipper on November 23, 2020, 02:38:10 PM
The part that I bought is the stainless insert -- not the panel itself.  They have to be swapped into my panels which are, oddly enough, either the originals or service parts.  They were redyed but in a very competent way. The driver's side has some minor cracking at the door pull but the passenger side is about as good as I have seen.  I will post a picture whenever I get the new inserts installed.

A couple things issues to clarify. If you bought a stainless insert then you bought the wrong part because originally it is aluminum

Bob, I know I said stainless steel but that was my own stupidity.  I am certain that what I have is actually brushed aluminum and I also believe that what NPD sold as a Burton part is brushed aluminum as well.  When it arrives I will post a picture of what I get.

The part that I bought is the stainless insert -- not the panel itself.  They have to be swapped into my panels which are, oddly enough, either the originals or service parts.  They were redyed but in a very competent way. The driver's side has some minor cracking at the door pull but the passenger side is about as good as I have seen.  I will post a picture whenever I get the new inserts installed.

I just ordered a pair from NPD and they say they are in stock and made by Burton.  I will let everyone know how it works out for me.

A couple of the tabs that hold the insert on my door panel fatigued and broke.  After I looked over them closely it turns out that they are reproduction so I don't feel compelled to save them.  I know that NOS stuff is probably hard as heck to find.  So, as of November 23, 2020 who makes the best reproduction.  It looks like Scott Drake is everywhere and that is probably what my car has.  All advice is appreciated before I click.

Now that I have really studied the OEM v. reproduction latch clearly my other cars have the OEM unit.

Bob I am not certain if my exterior door handles were OEM or reproduction but they seem to work ok so I left them alone at the moment.  With that said, I was surprised at how well the reproduction latches copied the cosmetics but failed on their ability to operate correctly.  Once you had the real deal in one hand and the reproduction in the other the differences were obvious.

As it turns out my door latches had the Chinese Virus (i.e. my latches were reproduction and made in China).  The spring on the latch was way too stiff.  I pulled the latches and replaced them with 1969 service parts that I bought on Ebay.  The difference between real and the reproduction was astounding.  I did not weigh the two latches but the service part was noticeably heavier.  Now the door latches work as they should and I no longer have to slam the door to make it latch. 

BTW.  I bought the part from Stilwell Obsolete Ford Parts on Ebay and they shipped it two day for no extra charge and they were a good seller.  The crazy thing is that they were still in the unopened service part boxes that were in excellent condition.  The latches were coated with some sort of storage grease so the hardest part of the whole deal was removing the old storage grease before I installed them.

Quote from: Sfm6sxxx on November 18, 2020, 07:06:19 PM

Quote from: eric lipper on November 18, 2020, 01:16:58 PM
I cutoff the end of a finger in the fan blade of a 1976 Granada and knew it was time to go to college. 

See there was a use for those CAUTION FAN stickers

Now that was funny.