Last Indian

I can understand that! My wife used to cringe when I would play Boston! Same deal, I played them non-stop when they came out. The ultimate gunslinger band sound! You know multiple guitars playing in harmony! She’s over that now though! Love Tom Petty, and pretty much any kind of music! Rock, blues, classical, some country, some of the Seattle sound, but metal always moved my soul, kind of like a beautifully designed car that looks good standing still, but when you get in and it goes from 0 to 100 and back to 0 through a road course, WOW! Kind of like that!

That’s hilarious! I forgot all about sound! I always have my sound off, so I didn’t listen to any of them in playback with sound! And yes! I am so old that I am one of the original headbangers! Most folks only know of Whitesnake from the big hair era, but they came out long before then! I knew of Coverdale from his Deep Purple days. Most think of heavy metal as Metallica and the like, but the first actually Heavy Metal band was Steppenwolf!

If there’s one thing car folks love it’s a shiny reflective finish in a car paint! Think all of us want that, WOW! Effect! So! Let’s see em! for me, these first three are taken inside my garage door down no sunlight. https://1drv.ms/v/s!ApYhZl8sk2DFxwM0bde1f5CUjf_n https://1drv.ms/v/s!ApYhZl8sk2DFxn6rK9r91gTDw-cN https://1drv.ms/v/s!ApYhZl8sk2DFxn_Uy232fcP23v-4 These two are taken outside. https://1drv.ms/v/s!ApYhZl8sk2DFxwbowqsgdUWGH3LChttps://1drv.ms/v/s!ApYhZl8sk2DFxwVEJ2vEWSwz8RWL

Well it’s always easy to spend someone else’s money, but I’m a custom guy tried & true! So for me I see a whole lot of unique possibilities! High polished fins, not just the edge but the whole fin with just the flat transitions to the next fin painted! Custom center caps with a cool emblem in the middle all surrounded by a beautifully polished beautiful ring and chrome valve stem! Ohh! I think I just wet myself! 🥺

Congratulations! Beautiful car! And a GP to boot! Cool!

Sorry Frosty, I’m a little slow on replying! One thing to consider with the issues you’re having are the LEDs! Depending on the type of LEDs you get and where they are going in the circuitry, they can cause issues because of polarity! Such as you need a different flasher module for LEDs! Side turn signal lights that flash opposite with the front or back turn signals won’t work period if you use 196 LEDs in the side marker lights. In some cases lights won’t dim properly, etc. FYI!

Well depends on what you want? If you want a factory OEM finish than they will need to go on a lathe! If you don’t care about being OEM correct than they don’t! From what I remember, Frosty can set me straight one way or the other, the fins had a machined finish. So you can’t restore that correctly without remachining them! It would be a very light cut .010 to .015 thousandth, and I’m speaking just about machining the fin face, nothing more, but that requires a lathe and an indicator + a good machinist and a fair size lathe! But first you would glass bead them, not sand Blast! The first will clean then and strip the paint the latter will remove aluminum. The first will slightly brighten the second will tend to dull them. If you don’t care about the OEM look, then glass bead the wheels. Than using a hand block sander, sand each fin up and down, not crossways, starting with 3M 280 wet and dry carborundum paper, then 400 grit, followed by 600, then 1200! once that’s done the fins should have a nice Reflection when you look at the surface on an angle. The next two steps will bring out the mirror look! Using an SOS pad, blue soap steel wool pad and water, polish the fins up and down. Make sure the steel wool stays heavily soaped. That will give the fins a glossy mirror look. Finally finishing with my favorite metal polish, Happich simichrome polish! I have used a lot of hand rub metal polishes in my life and for me none come close to simichrome! If you don’t have access to SOS pads or the like you can use plain fine, not course, steel wool pads covered liberal with a liquid hand soap and water. Just don’t use as much water. Than when you are all done you can paint the areas you want to paint!

Those links work better?

With Indian nearly finish; well at least for this year, here’s a walk around! https://1drv.ms/v/s!ApYhZl8sk2DFxnPBFtiYyskJKHth2000 & Engine bay! https://1drv.ms/v/s!ApYhZl8sk2DFxnL-3IIP3X0SDJJZ

Maybe this will work better for you Kiwi! But I’m not sure! https://1drv.ms/v/s!ApYhZl8sk2DFxnPBFtiYyskJKHth Wrong link, try this one. The one above is a walk around. The bottom one is the interior. https://1drv.ms/v/s!ApYhZl8sk2DFxnHXM2ZbDhgvM7dq This one is the engine bay. If they work!🤪 https://1drv.ms/v/s!ApYhZl8sk2DFxnL-3IIP3X0SDJJZ

Up it’s my black Buick LaCrosse! It’s backed in facing the Indian!

More play time today! Wow two times in one week! Oh wait! Today’s a new week! Dah! The Indians Interior video. IMG_1399.MOV

F.1 GTX Grand Prix walk around (The Last Indian) this one might work better? https://1drv.ms/v/s!ApYhZl8sk2DFxnPBFtiYyskJKHth2000 IMG_1398.MOV

Well today was a play day, for once! While I was detailing out some of the work I’ve been doing I took some video of the engine bay to see how it might look when videoed. See what you think. FullSizeRender.mov

Plenum cover/cooler is done. The real purpose of this upgrade was two fold. One I wanted to take more advantage of the F.1 hood for cold air induction on the plenum now that the new ram air NACA duct was added to the front cover. This cover sits as high as is possible, without hitting the hood when closed, to get it in to the air stream of the F.1 hood scoops. This air is now diverted into the open area of the cover. Than flows over the plenum and is extracted out through the top and back of the plenum cover/cooler. This reduces plenum air temp more than before creating a denser charge! The other was too have deeper finned top, a little more bold! So to speak.

Frosty, you known I feel for you! Two major knee surgeries just to put my knee back together from football; wow! And the other needed surgery, but I never did get it. But, I did find quite awhile ago that at least for me, what keeps my knees good! I mean good, bend, squat, kneel for extended periods of time was this! Every morning I kneel like the Land O Lakes Indian maiden for a full minute! Basically I sit right done on my heels. That said I did have to work up to it slowly! In the beginning I thought my knees were going to come apart like a chicken leg. But be carful if you try it your issue might be completely different from mine!

Got the foot rest pad in. Now I can rest my foot when Smokey’s not chasing me like Kiwi!!

Good deal mate! The ticket? Hey that’s just keeping Smoky on his toes & and helping out the local economy! Not getting all that tax revenue because of COVID-19 you know!

Welcome! Always liked the big GP’s of the 70’s!

Ahh! Omaha! Been there done that! Uncle Warren lives there! You know Buffett! Spent lots of time there, Council Bluffs Iowa and Lincoln Nebraska between “96” and 2003 on the railroad project for oil drain extensions that our team developed. Union Pacific Railroad’s headquarters is in Omaha. Talk about wide open spaces! Side-note did you all know that Abraham Lincoln founded Union Pacific Railroad?

Well this is the first look at the Indian with the new front cover/splitter/emblem! Not finished quite yet, but getting close. A couple more weeks. Really weird to have it on the ground after 10+ months in the air! It’s usually on the ground by late May! Took it out around the block to see what the new NACA duct setup and tranny cooler we’re like! It was well worth the work, that’s all I can say! Been a strange year! Still have the inserts for the front cover to finish, as well as the plenum cover and still need to install the interior racing foot pad!

Boy does that look familiar! Looks a lot like my 69Z did after a dash fire! Wow what a mess! Especially after it’s been dry chemical sprayed to extinguish it and then an added dash of monoammonium phosphate, just to make sure all A type combustibles are out too! Yuck! Kudos Frosty ! That’s a lot of work and in very uncomfortable positions lots of times!

Well, that becomes a little difficult as basically on the old cars you can lay on your back reach up and pop the hood! No latch lever required! That said there are a couple things you can do! First take the coil wire going to the distributor run it into the cabin of the car. Take it to like the glove box! When I did mine on my Camaros I actually built a hidden compartment that you accessed through the glove box. I ran the wire to a toggle switch in the hidden compartment. The other side of the switch I ran back to the distributor. With the switch off even if they try to hot wire it won’t work. The other, but I don’t know if your Grand Prix has a nutral safety switch? But if it does you break one side of the switch and run it to a momentary switch! Without the momentary engaged while starting the car, it won’t start.

Hang in there buddy! You’ll get it figured out! I know it can be exasperating!