<VV> WC: "Numbers Matching"

[Bording Ostergaard]

Ah, but did he use real NOS parts?  :)


At 05:09 PM 6/2/2010, Les wrote:
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>Apparently, that's not all there is to restoration....
>
>""Boy, it really galls my threads when these ignoramuses go off about how
>the Corvair crowd is 'over-restoring' cars! I say, restored means
>*exactly* as the factory did it, no matter what. I spent 95 weeks last
>year doing an accurate and complete ground-up restoration on my '67.
>And, let me tell you, some of those rubber and glass pieces are *really*
>hard to restore after grinding them up!
>
>For some folks, simply applying a bit of overspray while painting is
>'good enough.' I scoff at this. I meticulously copied onto the mufflers,
>droplet by droplet, the exact overspray pattern that was there
>originally. Even the runs and sags at the bottom of the door panels were
>duplicated. Your average 'restorer' will just slap some new paint on,
>calling it 'original' if it is the same color. Jeeez. I chemically
>removed every vestige of *the original paint*, then broke it down,
>reformulated it, and re-applied it. Sure, I had to use substitute
>volatile carrier (thinner), but since it evaporates anyway, I claim that
>it was not originally 'on the car' when it left the factory gates.
>
>Some folks think using the 'correct' fasteners is good enough. Ha! I
>made sure to cross-thread the left rear upper transmission crossmember
>bolt, just as the (sometimes inebriated) factory worker was known to. I
>removed the third from the right lower grille attachment screw, which a
>previous owner had erroneously installed, in spite of the
>well-documented fact that none of these were installed at the factory
>until after 3:43 pm on October 17th, 1966. I made sure to scratch the
>frame in the appropriate places, just as the handling mechanisms at the
>factory did. Some previous owner had removed the scratches, in an effort
>to make the car 'perfect.' What was he thinking? I even installed the #3
>cylinder's exhaust lifter upside down, which was a rare (1 of 3 such
>built), but documented occurrence. Sure, it runs like hell, but hey,
>it's _original_!
>
>Some folks get a new set of tires that LOOK like the originals, and call
>that good enough. Not me. I got THE ORIGINAL tires out of a landfill,
>ground them up, and restored them. I was able to find about 91.7% of the
>rubber which had worn off, by vacuuming the roadside dust over the roads
>the car had travelled, and separating out the correct molecules from the
>other debris with a mass-spectrographic double-diathermic
>isopropadiaphanometer molecular identifier. NOT cheap, let me tell you.
>But, correct is correct. Some folks put on new valve stems and caps, and
>away they go. We purists know that it IS important to align the seam
>line on the valve cap to the correct angle, just as it left the factory
>('indexed' valve caps, Section T-26-B.5 of the Official Sniveler's Guide
>to CORRECT Corvair Assembly).
>
>Changing the oil is considered routine by some 'restorers'. They throw
>out the old, slap in some new, maybe even 'improved' oil, and a new
>filter. Not a real purist. I have the original oil broken down and
>re-refined. The old additives are removed, restructured, and re- added.
>I even recover as many molecules of the burned or dripped oil as
>possible, and add them back in. This means the filter must be
>dismantled, which ruins the case, so it has to be remelted and reformed
>into a filter. Re-using the original paint, of course.
>
>Some bozos throw in a Sears Die-Hard, and off they go. Some so- called
>restorers buy a reproduction 'tar-top' battery, and call THAT good
>enough (*scoff*). I found my original battery and remanufactured it. No
>wimpy replacing the innards with new, either. I melted down the original
>plates, then recast them in the correct factory molds. Saving the
>original electrolyte, of course. Now, you might think, gee, that seems
>pretty far-fetched, this guy is extreme. Well, you ain't seen nothing
>yet. I also was able to procure the original ELECTRONS which had come
>with the car, and reinstall them. It seems that over the years, the car
>had given and recieved a few jump starts, and some of the original
>electrons had thus transferred to other vehicles, and some from other
>cars had contaminated my car. Thankfully, there is an electron sorting
>and ID accessory for the molecular identifier, which allowed me to
>correct this blatant slap to true_ originality.
>
>One thing holds me back from being 100% correct. Some fool of a previous
>owner had changed the tires, and did not retain the original air. I
>know, hard to believe, but it happened- some folks just don't 'get it.'
>Now, I have located about 24.6% of the original air molecules with the
>Mass-Spectragraphic double diathermic isopropa diaphanometer, but many
>of them have been sucked into other engines, combusted, and turned into
>CO, CO2, NOx, etc. If anyone is aware of a device to spot the correct
>air molecules after they have been broken up and combined in other
>chemicals, please let me know. I guess I COULD settle for some air
>molecules from the Willow Run tire-mounting area vicinity, captured
>about 9:47 am on September 5th, 1966. Ah, well, it's only a few points
>off at showtime..."
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