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Coming home with a Buickload
Visited Danny today and picked up my 1966 RCA CTC-25 Dorrance. Also found a 1985 Panasonic 4 head VCR at an estate sale for 5 bucks, and it works. On the way back from Atlanta now, in the rain. The Dorrance cabinet is in the trunk covered in plastic.
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Good haul!
One question about the Buick: does it have the nearly-indestructible 3800 engine? |
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It is a 1998 Buick LeSabre Custom with 166,500 miles on the clock. It has the 3800 Series II.
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Funny anecdote.....I had a picture tube shield just like that sitting in my garage from a parted out God knows what from years ago. I used it to make a new lower quarter panel for my '62 Mercury a couple months ago
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Would love to see pictures of the cabinet when you get everything unloaded.
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Is this the one that someone bleached the cabinet?
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Takes a licking and keeps on ticking. The Buick 3800s are probably the finest American-built engines in my opinion.
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Hope you remembered to degauss it before painting it so that light blue paint job don't develop pink and green blotches.
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The buick 3800 is probably the best V6 GM ever made hands down. They're reliable(aside from intake leaks). There a LOT of well made american engines(most are not made anymore) I drive Ford trucks and the best ones were built in the 90's(300 sixes) were bullet proof but we dont make inline 6's anymore. I have an 06 with a 3 valve 5.4, so far so good at 163K MILES. People will poo poo them but maintenence is the key.
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Here is the Dorrance in its new home. Had a mishap when putting the tuner in, it somehow got crooked and the knobs wouldn't go on straight. Ended up breaking a small piece of the plastic on the mask. I stuck it back in and it was fine. Unfortunately, that's not the only casualty. The top left coil on the convergence board snapped off, but the wires are still attached, so it still works.
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Very nice. I bought and sold a boatload of used CTC25's back in the late '70's when I was in college.
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I and a friend actually managed to put two console sets into the trunk of my 1964 Coupe deVille. I repaired them and sold them. Ah, the olden days when I could get away with such crazyness...
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* I always plug my return route into MapQuest or Google to get the distance when hauling something big on foot. The dolly is a convertible unit and easily toted around by bus. Last edited by Jon A.; 12-18-2016 at 05:42 PM. |
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I had an entire tube era electronic organ in the trunk of my 78 Lincoln Mark V....And The trunk lid was an inch or two shy of latching.
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Had 48 cases of empty Bud tall boys in my 76 Coupe Deville.
Had to put some on the back seat. All N.H. cans that didnt have deposits & the beer was cheaper also. Turned them in in Mass. Pure profit. 73 Zeno LFOD ! |
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