'64 Parisienne CS "barn find" - last on the road in '86 ... Owner Protection Plan booklet, original paint, original near-mint aqua interior, original aqua GM floor mats, original 283, factory posi, and original rust.
Very. One owner, had it shot with oil every two years. There's one pic showing they even shot into the top of the B pillar. Had some trouble starting it ... found a 2" piece of vacuum hose to the choke was split. 20 seconds to fix, starts on a quarter turn now. Biggest problem is much of the electrics are wonky. Wipers don't work, heater doesn't either, front passenger window is a coin flip. I found the Olds chassis service manual online, but GM teamed it with a separate Body service manual and an Electric one. Haven't found them for download .. yet. Amazon has the three on CD ... I'll probably cough up for that.
The wipers were really messing with me at first. I'm used to Battery, switch, motor, ground. These are Battery, motor, switch, ground. Couldn't make head or tail of the switch output using a multimeter either. Slept on it and let the hind brain chew on the problem, and suddenly it made sense ... it's not an electric circuit at all .. it's a logic circuit. Without the manual to run the diagnostic tree, all I can do is throw non-existent parts at it.
She growls like a really big fat kitten, with huge teeth. Unfortunately ... my daughter beat me to naming her .... Barney. A big purple dinosaur. *facepalm*
Well, thanks to finding a '77 fisher manual online, I managed to debug the system and trace it down to the timing circuit. A temporary replacement wiper motor is going in until I can get the time to look at it in detail.
In other news, I made a colossal error this weekend. I let my daughter drive it. It was her birthday. Well good luck getting the keys back now ...
Blood list to date .. Wiper motor, vacuum hose, and rear brakes. One of the drums was so rotted that a piece fell out. Just shy of 900km since buying it (sure adds up fast) and it's become a serious struggle to get behind the wheel before my daughter does. I thought I'd never pry her out of the rear facing seat ... boy was I wrong. She's about 90% of the way to pulling her first doughnuts without any coaching from me. I'm about 90% of the way to needing Depends.
Blood list to date .. Wiper motor, vacuum hose, and rear brakes. One of the drums was so rotted that a piece fell out. Just shy of 900km since buying it (sure adds up fast) and it's become a serious struggle to get behind the wheel before my daughter does. I thought I'd never pry her out of the rear facing seat ... boy was I wrong. She's about 90% of the way to pulling her first doughnuts without any coaching from me. I'm about 90% of the way to needing Depends.
Oh boy! Now I know what's coming! And to know my daughter is waiting for her license to drive away letting her long blonde hair blow in the wind with the top down... I'll need diapers!
