Recent Updates

Someone on the Nova board was looking for a dealer emblem for their car. here’s a 3D printed version I made for them: Using the scanned image of the emblem, I used GIMP to reduce it to a pure black-and-white image using the posterizing filter. Once that was done, I hand-edited the result to clean… Read more: 3D Printed Dealer Emblem

I’ve been driving the car more this summer since I’ve addressed a lot of the problem areas. The next item on the punchlist was getting it to ride more comfortably. The suspension felt very stiff, particularly in the rear, and going over potholes or train tracks felt like the car was going to shake apart.… Read more: New rear shocks

The roof rail weatherstripping on the car is probably the original stuff, and after 55 years, it doesn’t really do its job very well. I bought a bunch of weatherstripping for the car when I first bought it, and have slowly been installing it on the car ever since. I decided it was time to… Read more: New roof rail weatherstripping

When I first installed the Scat/ProCar Rally seats, the seating position seemed at least 2-3″ taller than the stock seats. Granted, the stockers were pretty worn out, but the seating position still bugged me. I finally got around to lowering the seats on the brackets. There’s 3 positions available on the seat brackets. Unfortunately, there’s… Read more: Lowering the Seat