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water guy
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 Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 7:17 pm Post subject: Just got a Continental! |
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After three years of making friends with the owner(2nd), I bought it and drove it home yesterday!!!!
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Fritter
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Very nice!
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Braukuche
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| Looks like a gem. Very nice. |
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jjjjack
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TC/TeamEvil
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| Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 12:02 pm Post subject: |
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Let's seem more pics . . . LOTS more ! ! !
Especially of the interior/dash board . . .
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delamaize
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| Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 12:13 pm Post subject: |
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Awesome, except those T bar bumpers, they look like crap. Ditch'em please.
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Wolfgangdieter
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| Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 12:44 pm Post subject: |
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I LOL at the over-riders too! Great for holding surf fishing rods. I guess they do fend of bumper dings and cows in the road. Gorgeous car - love the red on red. I'd go with the smaller chrome/aluminum ones --- us less those are some vintage version.
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water guy
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| Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 3:22 pm Post subject: |
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I also do not like the tee bars, but the previous owner put them on in 1964. At some point I'll find bumpers. It's just not high up on the list yet. I did discover that my car was the seventh to the last continental made. It has 147,000 miles on a rebuild around 100,000. All the origanal engine parts came with the car. Full service history from new. Kinda a bummer that it was repainted and inside redone in the seventy's. Wasn't a deal breaker for me though. Runs like a top....and stops.
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Jacks
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| Cool. Is that an 8 track under the dash? Please tell us it wont be converted to a 356 bodied VW slammed on earlies. |
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water guy
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| Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 2:22 am Post subject: |
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No comment on the radio! It is going bye bye. I think I'm gonnacut the car up into a Baja!!! The bug in the background is an Okrasa kit I bought from Wiggy. On a serious note, I love this car. I don't plan on making it a trailer queen. I'm gonna drive this car with no worries about rock chips or touching the paint. It's gonna be fun. I'll add some more photo's.
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water guy
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| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 12:01 am Post subject: more pictures |
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Looking up the dash color makes me think the correct color to be metallic jade green.
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TC/TeamEvil
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Gosh! It's really charming inside there, isn't it ? ! ? !
Nice ride. |
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water guy
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I am puzzled about the windshield wipers. It
seems odd that when they rotate to the left, half
the wiper leaves the window. At the center bent half.
Is this correct?
Thanks
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Jacks
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| Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Not really. Wipers should oppose each other, left facing left and right facing right. Your set up is A style. Could b modified to work tho. |
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water guy
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| Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks. I'll see if I can do some linkage switching around.
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pancho villa
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water guy
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| Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2010 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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Got them as clean as their gonna get today!
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| That IS a big garage. I'm in the proccess of building one for myself. Not as big but will hold 4 VWs. 2 of them will be stacked. |
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