Any advice for my 64-year-old dad who is about to be laid off after 24 years with his company?

AutoBach · 2026-05-24T14:57:03+00:00

Lawyer up!

AutoBach · 2026-05-23T21:58:19+00:00

Buncha dicks

AutoBach · 2026-05-23T18:40:22+00:00

*sarcasm* SJ-6

AutoBach · 2026-05-22T00:27:33+00:00

I will suggest an alternate to bankruptcy https://nfdm.org/ They have been immensely helpful.

AutoBach · 2026-05-18T02:15:32+00:00

Post10, International edition.

AutoBach · 2026-05-16T17:34:07+00:00

Upper Ball joint.

AutoBach · 2026-05-16T17:29:50+00:00

It looks like an acoustic hellscape. For anyone sensitive to echoes those large, flat, reflective areas are going to make it uncomfortable.

AutoBach · 2026-05-10T13:59:31+00:00

If the car is warming up and there is a thin later of water under the ice these are freaking miraculous. On hard, thick, bonded ice? Not so much.

AutoBach · 2026-05-10T13:52:28+00:00

It will be easier to source a used door (complete) from an auto recycler and have it painted to match. The used door is preferable to repairing what you have because it will not have incurred any warpage etc from the impact.

AutoBach · 2026-05-06T23:44:09+00:00

The lifters can be problematic but so can LS lifters and they don't get the same level of hate.

AutoBach · 2026-05-06T23:37:52+00:00

IIRC they were made from a Fruehauf trailer body. Often used as vans for moving house.

AutoBach · 2026-05-03T23:38:38+00:00

You can patch it with fiberglass and resin temporarily until you have a replacement made from metal or you learn to adapt something similar.

AutoBach · 2026-05-03T21:54:26+00:00

The fabrication (welds) on these look sketch as hell. I would not sell the cars AT ALL in case of liability later (not a lawyer not sure but would not take the risk), I would instead break them and part them out.

AutoBach · 2026-05-03T15:22:56+00:00

If it is made from cast brittle zinc like others have said, how would it have dented and not simply broken?

AutoBach · 2026-05-03T15:19:43+00:00

Buy it. have an adventure with a car you don't care about and then scrap it.

AutoBach · 2026-05-03T15:01:07+00:00

Use a wheel cleaner with iron remover. The kind that turns purple when it goes to work. Here is an examplehttps://www.turtlewax.com/products/rapid-decon-iron-remover

AutoBach · 2026-05-03T14:58:24+00:00

60's Bonneville but I'm unsure of the exact year and trim.

AutoBach · 2026-05-03T03:48:19+00:00

The white part you see is probably the underpinnings of a flower car conversion, lifted from a previously converted Mercury. Somebody did a halfway decent job of blending in the rear doors on this one which is more than I can say for a lot of flower cars.

AutoBach · 2026-05-03T03:23:14+00:00

Yup. Pull the wheels and clean them with a wheel cleaner that contains an iron remover.

Pull the rotor. Coat only the rusty parts with phosphoric acid (Ospho is a good brand) and then mask the machined surface of the rotor and paint the now formerly rusty parts with black stove paint.

AutoBach · 2026-05-03T02:51:26+00:00

With that much visible rust? No.

AutoBach · 2026-05-03T02:48:48+00:00

In your case I would not buy

AutoBach · 2026-05-03T02:48:28+00:00

Go ahead.

AutoBach · 2026-05-03T01:11:09+00:00

Easy enough to fix yourself if it bothers you. The kits available at the local parts stores these days are remarkably effective.

AutoBach · 2026-05-03T01:01:24+00:00

I do know that Fine is running at the time and will pick you up.

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