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The background later today will hopefully the be the rest of my rear bumper assembly. I've been slowly putting it all back together the past few days and hope to remedy a slightly warped large rear center that has been gnawing at me for 10+ years. The rechromed center I had appears to be 3/4" pushed inward, compared to the new one I am putting on. I had always noticed that it was way too close (about 1/8" to 1/4") from the back trunk wall than what I have observed on almost all other 64 Cadillacs. The odd thing is there is absolutely not sign of stress, or otherwise, of how the rear bumper I had, was a bit flattened and pushed inward toward the car. Anyway, I will see the new "fitment" in the next few days when the bumper goes back on. Today the license guard and filler pans go on to complete the assembly.
Where did you get this re-chromed? Tri-City Plating said they wouldn't plate my license housing because they thought it might be made with pot metal.
Atlantic Coast Plating did my license guard outer bezels and inner escutcheons. The lower center was one I bought outright from Tri-City.
I'll have to give them a call. That looks amazing!
Nice job they did on that. Are you going to paint the plate bolts yellow to match the plate? I di on ours here and it look really clean.
No, probably not. I might use a nice yellow/gold cad screw if I can find the correct large head screw. Right now I've got bigger fish to fry. For about 3 hours today I installed the license guard, filler pans and readjusted everything. I probably spent about 1.5 hrs trying to find a better RH filler plate end cover. I had brought in an NOS LH end cover way back so it looks like new. I probably pulled 3 of these, cleaned and polished and ended up using the one I already had on there! LOL. Anyway, after about 3 hrs I knew it was time to walk away and enjoy today's accomplishment. Off the car the bumper assembly looks right ... nice crisp lines, between everything but the actual mounting on the car may bring unexpected opportunities. I did leave the 2 inner bumper end to frame brackets looks to allow for adjustment as I mount the outer brackets. Anyway, I do have some more "bling pictures" of the completed assembly and may post some later.
That looks really good, the lines and contour changes in it look so sharp. Looking at that shiny chrome, I think i'm starting to get a little frisky..... LOL
Ha...then you take it to the next level and start sending the best you can find out the be rechromed... and your wallet gets thinner, and thinner and thinner!
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I have got a flood of email, texts, about the 63 Eldo that recently bid up to $120,000 and thought I would share for those that have not seen it.Here is the link:…Continue
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Incredibly, in 3 days I have had 3 people ask about replacing their fuel pump or even adding an electric fuel pump because there carb is not getting gas. It has gotten to the point I have copied and…Continue
Started by Phillip Hill in 1963/64 Cadillac Specific Discussion. Last reply by Dennis P. DiBari Aug 4. 13 Replies 0 Likes
Hi everyone im currently restoring my my front grill due to some previous clown painting it with silver frost paint and doing a dodgy job I would like to know what parts of the grill are anodised.it…Continue
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While enjoying the fruits of my labor on all new rear suspension and…Continue
Posted by SK on June 2, 2025 at 2:20pm 2 Comments 0 Likes
Could someone post front and back photos of the 1963 right-hand kick panel with A/C?
My car didn’t come with the original kick panels, so it's a bit of a mystery to me how I should cut the backing board and carpet to fit around the A/C.
Many thanks,
-Samu
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Hey guys,
I have installed the same Edelbrock carb and have done everything the same as Jason’s carb and intake project. In the spring and summer months the car starts, runs and idles great! In the fall and winter months on a cold start, the car starts awful and wants to die until it warms up. I have to keep my foot on the throttle until it warms up or it will idle just terrible and try to die. Once it’s warm, it runs fantastic! Whats going on here? I was thinking of removing the…
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