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Rose / White '56 Belvedere 2dr Hardtop
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Powerflite
Posted 2021-06-13 2:09 PM (#612720 - in reply to #602173)
Subject: Re: Rose / White '56 Belvedere 2dr Hardtop



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Location: So. Cal		Yeah, I did the same thing with my Savoy. I am hoping not to have to do that with this one, but we'll see.
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Powerflite
Posted 2022-08-04 5:10 PM (#623387 - in reply to #602173)
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Location: So. Cal		I was able to find an NOS tissue dispenser No. 1692600 for a decent price and picked it up. I figure that it would go well with this Belvedere, being from the '56 model year. But I won't mount it until we're actually using the car to prevent it from sitting outside needlessly. I included a photo of the instructions for reference.



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mikes2nd
Posted 2022-08-05 1:48 AM (#623389 - in reply to #602173)
Subject: Re: Rose / White '56 Belvedere 2dr Hardtop


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Powerflite
Posted 2022-09-13 10:57 AM (#624238 - in reply to #602173)
Subject: Re: Rose / White '56 Belvedere 2dr Hardtop



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Location: So. Cal		I adjusted the kickdown band on this car per the FSM specs, in the vain hope that it would somehow solve the 2nd gear issue. Now it doesn't want to ever shift to 2nd gear. I must have got it too tight, but I rotated it out by 3 rotations as stated in the FSM, so I don't know why it didn't work well. However, this new setting isn't all bad, as there is no 2nd available anyway, so I'm going to just leave it there. A rear wheel cylinder died on it so I had no rear brakes until I filled it back up. I'm not going to fix it as I'm just going to swap in a B-body 8 3/4 anyway.

With the car up in the air, I finally took the time to straighten from below, the little section of floor that needed to be pushed upward after the welding on it. It required having my son hold a dolly at the top to prevent it from just bouncing.

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Powerflite
Posted 2023-01-08 7:15 PM (#626815 - in reply to #602173)
Subject: Re: Rose / White '56 Belvedere 2dr Hardtop



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Location: So. Cal		I just realized that this car was originally painted just like the car on the cover of the user's manual. Pretty cool.



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56D500boy
Posted 2023-01-08 11:06 PM (#626821 - in reply to #626815)
Subject: Re: Rose / White '56 Belvedere 2dr Hardtop



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Powerflite - 2023-01-08 4:15 PM
I just realized that this car was originally painted just like the car on the cover of the user's manual. Pretty cool.


Back in 2020 when you first got the car you said:

"PT: 680 (Briar Rose body, Jet Black roof/Sport tone)"

I wonder why the black bits got painted white and when?

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Powerflite
Posted 2023-11-02 1:23 PM (#632568 - in reply to #602173)
Subject: Re: Rose / White '56 Belvedere 2dr Hardtop



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Location: So. Cal		I think someone just wanted a more powder puff pink car with white, rather than black at some point. But I'm going to put it back to original eventually.

The cheap spray cans that I used to color match my repairs to the rear window area have fully oxidized, along with the rest of the original paint. So now it's really impossible to tell that there was ever a repair done in that area.



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