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Recent years

Not driven for most of the last seven or eight years, the car was garaged with dad in his home on California's Monterey Peninsula. The car had trouble starting and solutions became more elusive to dad as he aged. In 2018, the car was transported by truck back to Sacramento. The starter motor was replaced that Winter, simply fixing the ignition issue.

Brooks Erickson took on the car in 2020 and found significant leaking of radiator fluid coming from the expansion tank. Upon inspection, it had been patched many times and was corroding internally with sheets of metal falling away and many pinhole leaks observable with rust stains clear in an image below.

After some research, the tank appeared to be an aftermarket solution to help with notorious overheating and no OEM source was found. Thus, he had a machine shop custom fabricate a new tank to fit specs from stainless steel. This was a premium solution that corrected the leaking concern.

Upon installation, a complete flush of the coolant was performed as well as a thermostat test to assure this system was in order. Oil was found leaking from the valve cover by the shop, so a new gasket was installed to correct. A new battery was installed this June which put much pep in this lady's step. The switch for the RH window lift motor was replaced. While the emergency flashers work well, turn signal indicators have a wiring issue that needs to be traced while the signal stalk seems in sound mechanical shape. The speedometer seems a bit fast and may require calibration of the instrument. Tires seem to be original Dunlop Tyres, perhaps original from factory.