hi imfurys... thank you for the reference to the Detroit Muscle Technology company! i just went on their site and purchased the woodgrain applique that you referenced. it was only $24.00! DMT has some very good prices and a bunch of stuff that i'm going to purchase from them.
i have not yet determined what to do with the OEM clock i removed from my 69 Cuda. i know they are rare as most guys went for the tach if they were going to pay for some options on the new 1969 Barracuda they were ordering. i put several droplets of WD40 down the adjustment cable and on the shaft where the cable connects to the rear of the clock and i can now move the hands on the clock for setting. my next experiment will be to hook this up to a 12 volt power source and see if this clock runs. this unit looks to be pretty well sealed in its original manufacture so i'm not going to attempt to take this thing apart. i think that needs to be done by a "clock worker" or a jeweler.
i also looked at the dash pic. you mentioned from the Hamtramck registry. i have some of that stuff but no where near the library you have. i would love to have all the stuff you have. was your collection one of those "a few pages over the years" kind of collection or did you find some source that had a large volume of sheets all together? i do have the original factory service manuals for the 68 and 69 A body cars. ironically, i never thought to look at those books... LOL!
thanks again for the DMT reference. i'll post a pic of their dash part once i get it so other FABO folks can see one.[
Hi Jim,
Dan here. No problem on DMT, I've heard their quality is pretty good and I have a "wish cart" for them when I can. I'll go back thru Ebay and see if I can find the clock company I got mine from. I want to say it was right around $265 to buy the NOS clock and have them convert it and ship to me.
Some stuff in my references was easy to get, like the factory manual, I've made different versions of that dealer's brochure and refer it to for "quick reference". Wiring diagram was easy to get and I made several copies so I could trace out circuits using the correct color pen, colored pencil, etc. I also made slightly larger paper size ones. There is a company (it might be called classic car auto wiring, or something like that) where you can purchase laminated copies that I believe are somewhere around 24X24 or maybe was even 28X28. That's nice to put up close to whee you're working and again, grease pencils can be used to trace out and then wiped off. I did buy a copy of the book "Barracuda 1964-1969 A book of information, which contains the dealer's brochure, but it has great info and illustrations. Google and you should be able to find. I think it runs about $35. then I have some individual "upgrade" notes when I get back to mine. So some of it was easy to get, some I spent some money on the reference. Printing (and keeping in order) and getting that many pages in page protectors is very time consuming. I'm working on my third set now. My desk copy is not in page protectors, my garage copy is in them. This last set is set-up different from my first two and pretty sure the last one I'll make (my supply guy retired). I'm not kidding that the little bit of time I get to work on stuff like this probably takes me a year to make a set. I sleep about 3-4 hours every work night, rest of the time, I'm doing a lot of different things, often for other people, so I'm pretty slow at stuff like this. I even make power points on some of the stuff I have. Speaking of sleep, if I hit the bed, I've got 4 hours to sleep, so ttyl.
Dan