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I used to like plain old Turtle Wax and used to
leave my car under a coat of it all winter and take it off in the spring.
But it never came all the way off and it smeared and streaked easily and was
hard to get all the way off, even after washing and drying a black car a second
and third time.
I like McQuire's stuff that is a polish and takes
off a little dead paint every time you use it, doesn't harm rubber or plastic,
(in fact you can take dead wax off with the polish). Many companies,
including Turtle Wax made a version of this type of cleaner. I hate the
three-way of washing, putting on cleaner, taking if off, then putting on the
polish, then taking it off. I know they have "polish while you wash your
car" stuff on the market for years now.
It depends on how hard you want to work and how
dirty your car is. At any rate, a clean car always looks better than a
dirty car and that goes for windows, tires, door jambs, under the hood and
however far you want to take it. I've seen one thing happen in the
past 4 years. Many companies making resto parts of hard to get pieces of
older Mopars have gone out of business. '66 and up seems to be what they
make most parts and repro stuff for.
Imperial Services, which used to sell push-button
conversions for anyone having a floor consol and shifter now sells ALL his many
old Mopar parts through a vendor. He went through a divorce, his move took
forever, his health deteriorated and his soon to be ex wife screwed with
him. In the meantime, what parts he did have left 8 months ago like shift
cables, park cables and speedometer cables first went up by at least 4 times,
the supply was limited as the owner lost his sources here when lots of business
went overseas so he is trying to get repro stuff available again so on some
stuff you will have to be patient, pay a fortune for, or both. You can get
lucky right now with the bad economy and score a good deal for tens of thousands
less than someone has wrapped up in it and must sell.
Now is good buyers market. There is
lots of old parts floating around but some are worse than what you already have
and you will get ripped off sometimes if you buy something sight unseen but the
pics looked like it was new. Some people are good to deal with for a long
time. Then they rip off everyone they can and get out of the
business. Some are bad from the start. Some are good from the start
and stay that way.
Leaving your car stock for now and drive it while
fixing it as you go while you accumulate parts is probably most cars get
done. Either that or they sit for years until time finally permits the job
to get done.
They were good cars until the "K" cars and the
mini-vans came out. Good economy but bad bodies and they fell apart in
many ways but got the company back on its feet again. Now they are on
about their 4tth or 5th owner and I hope someone gets it right. Looks they
are on the right track from the magazines, but in reality I hardly see an SRT of
any kind, especially a Challenger. I'm hoping for more all the time, but
time is short. New laws go into effect in a few years which would cause
big changes. We are fighting a losing battle, but we will
fight.
Chick
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