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5 hours ago, JohnCh said:

Are those the DPR mirror mounts?

 

Yep! They made mounting simple.

 

4 hours ago, IamScotticus said:

Very clean.  Did yoy have to Tap the frame?

 

Nope! I took out one of the fixing screws and replaced it with the DPR piece. Mounting took 2 minutes. Adjusting -- well, we'll see! They're paving our road this week so I'm laying low drive-wise. Hopefully tomorrow I can check my garage adjustments.

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A bit late posting up but here it is. I took the Se7en to a Cars&Coffee at a place called "Steel Stacks". It is the site of the former Bethlehem Steel plant in downtown Bethlehem PA and it makes a pretty dramatic backdrop for some shiny (and some not-so shiny) hardware. Hundreds and hundreds of cars show up for this event. It's popular. When I pulled in the fellow said "we'll put you on the cobbles -- go that way" and sent me in a different direction, around a couple of police cars. I didn't know what he was talking about until I got a bit further and realized he had sent me to the area where all the really cool stuff was! That was unexpected and fun.

 

 

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Very cool show and site. Imagine the roar of blast furnaces in it's heyday! Your car looks great and as a muscle car guy too, I like the 69 Roadrunner with the "Dust trail" stripe too!

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On 10/17/2023 at 10:22 PM, IamScotticus said:

How bout some 360 pics of complete car!  Without people in the way.

 

If you're serious, I have a youtube channel that has a section dedicated to the car.

(About that: I never would have done this but a friend of mine said "you should share the experience of these cars with other people!" and so I am. No advertising or any of that, you just have to be willing to listen to me blather.)

 

 

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I've decided not to cut the shift lever. I know, I'm wishy-washy. A flip-flopper. On both sides of the fence. So be it. But after sizing up what would need to be done and where the lever would end up being, namely entirely underneath the dashboard, I decided that was not what I wanted as a result. As things are the lever is long enough to poke out from under the dash, and that just makes more sense to me. For the time being at least.

 

I revisited the remote shift mechanism that came with the car. I want to try to reinstall it. I can see where the piece holding the lever used to be mounted and it should still fit. I'd need to cut one of the levers down to a 4" - 5" stub so it fits under that cover, then drill it to accept the forward end of the remote mechanism. Seems straightforward.

 

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I also have an aluminum cover plate with shift boot which would fit over the whole works.

 

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The problem I'm having is figuring out what the other part does and where it goes. It has a shift-boot-sized hole in the plate, and two arms with nutserts at the ends of them. I'm assuming it has something to do with the shift assembly but no idea what that might be.

 

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Wdb,

 

This is my shifter without the boot on it. It is a Quaife, very short and worked out really well, no interference with dash. I do have long arms, so maybe that is why it is good for me. I have a stick shifter and also another Quaife one that I modified before I found the one in the picture as well.

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3 hours ago, Vinman1 said:

Wdb,

 

This is my shifter without the boot on it. It is a Quaife, very short and worked out really well, no interference with dash. I do have long arms, so maybe that is why it is good for me. I have a stick shifter and also another Quaife one that I modified before I found the one in the picture as well.

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One of my concerns with the lever being under there is me mangling my hand when I reach in and out for the lever. Any issues with that? Also there is the spaghetti bowl of wires that hang perilously just above that area.

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No problem at all. The key chain does not even touch my hand when shifting. As for the wires, when I put the harness from Autosparks in I made sure it was layed out so  nothing was hanging down.

 

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You could still have it bent by anyone with a hydraulic press to bring the knob back a inch or two. Just need to check the clearance from the knob to the rear tunnel in gear.

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4 hours ago, MV8 said:

You could still have it bent by anyone with a hydraulic press to bring the knob back a inch or two. Just need to check the clearance from the knob to the rear tunnel in gear.

 

Yep. The lever has a bend in it already, about 1-1/2 inches above the pivot ball; it's more easily seen in my Nov. 2 post.  It could be bent more but I think you'd have to straighten it first and move the bend further up.

 

In the second picture the lever is in first gear; when it is in second/fourth the lever is far enough back that it pulls the dust boot out of the aluminum panel, in spite of me using rubber lubricant where the lever passes through the boot. I gorilla taped it underneath to keep it in place! Bending it more, without first taking out the first bend, would make that worse.

 

The lever that was in the car when I got it has more of a bend, and that's what they did; straighten it, then move the bend up. I considered using it as basis for the shortened version, but the bend covers a significant portion of the length and it looked to me as though I would have had to try threading a curved section. As it is I can still cut the shortened lever down to use with the extension assembly, and I still have the long one as a backup in case I make a hash of the thing.

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I went for a "before we put 'em away" drive with a bunch of (mostly) British cars yesterday. A bit nippy but fun. We did a tour of covered bridges in the area; managed to see 5 within about 90 minutes!

 

25F when I left home. I keep threatening to buy doors...

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Some of the other participants. The Italia is owned by the shop's manager, who also led the drive.

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Inside Ragtops & Roadsters, the restoration shop that hosted the event.

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The drive leader stopped several times while we were on the covered bridges, so he could take pictures and videos. We held up traffic a little bit, but it was all good fun and smiles all around. I took advantage of one of the stops to take a couple of shots. Apologies for the quality...

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