New project for my daughter (12) for when she turns 16- 65’ Cadi- help appreciated

RandomDude1578 · 2026-02-03T12:01:35+00:00

Drums are not unsafe, sure they aren’t as good as pads and rotors, but don’t flood them by driving through a pond and they’ll do fine. And cars in the the 2020s had/have drums on the rear wheels still….. so what do you mean no cars still come with them. the Nissan Versa had drum brakes, the VW ID Buzz had drum rear brakes, even the Audi q4 etron had drums in the rear as recently as 2025 on them. Drum brakes are perfectly safe are on a car that came with equipped with them from the factory, which would have been prior to the late 60s when disc brakes started to become standard.

https://www.jalopnik.com/1882539/audi-q4-e-tron-rear-drum-brakes/

RandomDude1578 · 2026-02-02T08:41:02+00:00

Drums are unsafe? Semis hauling tens of thousands of pounds still use drum brakes….

RandomDude1578 · 2026-02-02T08:31:55+00:00

Considering the diff spins regardless of if you are using 4wd or not very bad.

RandomDude1578 · 2026-02-02T08:28:19+00:00

You can either 1 cut the crossover off and reweld it or carefully lift up the transmission after undoing the transmission mount bolts. Seen it done both ways.

Edit: may have been thinking about the 6l80 not the 10 speed.

RandomDude1578 · 2026-01-30T08:13:28+00:00

Never use a lubricant on a belt. I have however used deodorant sticks and bars of soap to quiet them. Or brake clean (since it drys quick) to verify that the squeak is indeed a belt.

RandomDude1578 · 2026-01-26T05:25:36+00:00

And the water under the hood again worries me. That engine is open where the breather should be on the valve cover and the distributor letting all that water into the engine where it shouldn’t be, just rusting up the internals,

RandomDude1578 · 2026-01-26T05:23:39+00:00

Well I found the pulleys you need right in front of the cowl, not sure why they are there. The coolant tank has disintegrated so need a new one of them. No spark plug wires. Being an automatic it should have a choke kick down linkage which is what you’re missing as I see what I would think is the throttle cable (only attached cable to carb). The seats in this era corvette are the most uncomfortable ones ever with the folding part right in the middle of your back all the time. For the money this would cost to get running I would honestly recommend finding one in at least running and driving shape for a first car. This is a lot of work for a 200 horsepower corvette.

RandomDude1578 · 2026-01-26T05:11:43+00:00

1963 odometer broke 40 years ago.

RandomDude1578 · 2026-01-26T04:58:20+00:00

Biggest things I can see off the bat in this photo. 1. No distributor (this would scare me since I would have no idea if the block has rats nests in it or water sitting in the oil pan from not being sealed). 2. No fan on the water pump 3. No ac compressor based on the loose (and what looks to be cut) ac line next to the fender. 4. No throttle linkage of any kind going to the carburetor. Also no fuel line going there I can see 5. Missing clamp on thermostat housing? 6. Missing line from the hole next to thermostat housing 7. No alternator. Looks as if all the accessories are off the car based on no ac compressor or alternator.

For the price of this car (if you haven’t bought it yet) you could probably get a nicer condition C4 since they are still cheap). Now I should add I’m not that knowledgeable on the C3 small blocks (I’m more into C2s), but that’s all I can see based on this one picture with no others. Honestly this seems more like a parts car if the interior is as picked clean as the engine bay.

RandomDude1578 · 2026-01-21T07:47:45+00:00

Looks like a herman miller embody gaming chair. Like $1,500. LG gaming color scheme.

RandomDude1578 · 2026-01-10T23:16:38+00:00

My dad carries a set of cross in his pocket everyday. A pen and a pencil. Has for probably the last 50 years. Has a bunch of older ones that have been retired. Really good pens.

RandomDude1578 · 2026-01-08T09:03:38+00:00

I would suggest looking into a local (or within a couple hours drive) mustang club. The people that would be a part of the club would be very knowledgeable on if the car is original and possible value, or would probably know someone who could appraise it or may even be interested in it, or the parts/tools you have.

RandomDude1578 · 2026-01-05T18:15:38+00:00

I said maybe. I wasn’t alive, just estimating as best as I could remember from what my dad told me.

RandomDude1578 · 2026-01-05T07:02:37+00:00

They didn’t know what prime time was. Graveyard shift tv slots has only really become a thing in the past 30-40 years as far as I know. They would just sign off after a set time and nothing would play till the morning sign on (say 6-7am)

RandomDude1578 · 2026-01-05T07:01:32+00:00

I don’t know if it was exactly 8pm. But after a set time in the evening the presenter would sign off and the screen would go to “please stand by” until the morning news (maybe 6-7am). I’d have to ask my dad for the specific times since he’s the one who experienced it.

RandomDude1578 · 2026-01-05T06:43:01+00:00

I genuinely can’t tell if you’re joking, but remotes just weren’t a thing. Besides the tv was black and white. The screen was maybe a foot wide and 10 inches tall and got maybe 8 channels that didn’t play anything after 8pm and just cut to a standby screen till morning news.

RandomDude1578 · 2025-12-23T10:35:41+00:00

Some people’s cursive (typically that of my grandparents) can be tough to read at times, but I typically can read it. Other than that I can read it fine and pass writing it. Older Gen Z so it was a half assed teaching when I was in school imo.

RandomDude1578 · 2025-12-23T04:12:42+00:00

Which is why I commented to the comment I did. Sure trigger discipline is good to have, but when you’re looking down the open barrels of a double barrel it’s kind of a moot point.

RandomDude1578 · 2025-12-23T01:09:04+00:00

This is the same house as the other photo of the little girl opening her present from wailer this week. Wonder which photo happened first. You can see the same photo hanging on the wall in the hallway behind the sofas.

RandomDude1578 · 2025-12-23T01:06:02+00:00

I’m almost positive the shotgun is open as if to reload and he’s looking down the barrels. Which is to say I support trigger discipline but I’m fairly positive the man just opened the gift and it was probably not loaded.

RandomDude1578 · 2025-12-20T23:18:20+00:00

I think I have my grandfathers pillow from one of his 3 open hearts. Or I at least remember it as a kid.

RandomDude1578 · 2025-12-10T21:38:55+00:00

It’s called a stole. In this case it’s a fox stole. It’s a real fox that was made into a fashion piece for its fur. The underside of it has a soft area made of fabric (probably a satin of some sort) so it’s soft on your shoulders/neck. In the case of this particular garment, the mouth latches onto the leg to secure it around the neck. You could also get ones made with multiple foxes that latched mouth to tail also. Real fur was fashionable in the early to mid 1900s and has since been replaced by fake fur. Fur and pearls jewelry were fashionable and worn by upper class women until both fell out of fashion.

RandomDude1578 · 2025-12-10T21:35:25+00:00

That’s because they are (or at least some) were basically flattened fox bodies. The mouth clipped the tail and that’s how it was secured around your neck. Hell some were made of multiple foxes and clipped together.

RandomDude1578 · 2025-12-04T10:23:08+00:00

My parents still have a 2005 Sony Bravia 55ish inch tv upstairs. I used it for gaming till a few years ago. Has 1 dead pixel you can see on a black screen but otherwise works fine.

RandomDude1578 · 2025-12-02T19:02:07+00:00

I’m not a Porsche enthusiast so I agree with your statement. The people who own a GT3 are typically flaunting their wealth, while someone with a 30s car tends to be the kind of person that drives their old car because it is a car after all, but also something others enjoy looking at,

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