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It's been so long since I rebuilt my hinges, but I did like Brett suggested and used oiled bronze bushings. bushing has a shoulder on one side to keep it from slipping thru the bracket. Bushing length is slightly longer than the bracket out-to-out, so it just needs a washer on the other side...

Nice day here yesterday so I finally got some pix of the trailer mods I made this spring. Instead of using Boards to lift the nose of the Sterling enough to clear the trailer ramp, I added some "hooks" so some old aluminum atv ramps. These hook onto the rear structural support of the trailer...

Friday afternoon I finally took the wifey out for a first-for-2026 two mile spin around the neighborhood...after watching a 2 minute video ad before I could use my GPS Speedometer app (and another 2 minute video before I could see the results of my Trip...guess what app just got Uninstalled and...

"aim lower"... your sample pix are mostly exotics; I can't imagine that headlights from a Lambo or such are cheap, even in EU. The Fiat V20 seems like a good idea. Fiats aren't expensive over here at least! ;)

I did the "foamectomy" a long time ago when I narrowed the mazda seat covers. BUT, when I put the new seat covers on, there wasn't any foam there to FILL them. Uh-oh. So either I had to make new seat covers that would be "flatter" to account for the missing foam, or add the 1" of foam back...

I finally tackled the last biggest thing that was bugging me: the seat covers. Thanks to Google Lens, I found out that the seats are from an early 80s Mazda RX-7. Then I looked online for seat covers to buy and narrow 3" to match the seats. $500. Um, no. Next option: make them myself! (with...

You could even do it with pieces of 1/2"-3/4" wide Masking Tape to test out patterns instead of dowels. And set your license plate on a photo copier to make a lightweight copy to tape in place on the mockup.

The Gulf Racer takes my suggestion of "minimalist" to the extreme, but it's still along the lines of what I was trying to suggest. Nothing BIG and ugly, but something simpler like his black tubing. What about a couple horizontal tubes (1/2"-3/4" dia) between the bottom of the tailights and the...

So you won't have ANY bodywork covering your engine? If not, what about some sort of "minimalist" bumper made out of aluminum or chromed/painted tubing? Kinda "baja bug" style, but designed to protect the engine from tiny bumps and also to hold the license plate?

Great idea! I like it! Form AND Function!

Yeah, I already went a ways down that path. I bought two C4 seats and the recline mechanisms were rusted/broken. Not a lot of options up here in the RustBelt. I've already made heavy mods to my current seats, which now only need pretty seat covers. BUT, if there was a drop-in option, I'd...

Thank you for your detailed reply! Those seats look SO narrow, but they're still too wide for my car (and I really love how the headrest tilts forward). This goes to show just how LITTLE room we have with dropped pans in the factory chassis...I would need 16.5" max to fit. Your custom chassis...

After seeing your recent pix, I looked closer at your seats and got REAL interested. What are the base dimensions? Width at the hinge point of the back section? Thanks!

I do not.

What better time to test if the car will fit on the trailer than 1 hour before the start of the show?! lol As expected, things didn't go as smoothly as I hoped. I turns out that the 1.5" lip of the trailer is too high for the Sterling - even if the ramp is only 4 degrees. The car got its...

love, Love, LOVE the Copper! :D (not surprising that I would like it though, considering the color of my Sterling...and my Jeep is Mango Tango Orange! LOL)

Tank is relocated to directly above the transaxle. Pickup is on bottom of the tank, so draining it would involve dumping gas on the transaxle (assuming the "missing" 5 gallons would come pouring out when I pull the pickup out of the bottom). Another possibility: the missing 5 gallons...

I need to go back and look thru my old pix, but my current "hunch" is that the "fuel line connection" at the bottom of the tank is too long. I made it from a piece of flared brake line and a brass nut; maybe the line is sticking up too far into the tank. If I can find the pic, it might tell me...

follow up on the pulleys; old pulley on the top, new on the bottom. you can see the slight difference in how much belt is "in" the pulley groove.