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So. I haven't updated this since August 26, apparently. Well, car was insured for three months, had it on the road twice since December 1. I put the orange signal lenses on it,  and put the clock and bezel in it. I haven't been in the wreckers since late November, so I hope the Seville and Riviera are there, some other issues have cropped up. The CV joint boots got mended, that took a while and it took us almost 9 hours to get it apart and back together again, and then I forgot to pump the brakes after I got it assembled. Tore off down the road, and had to stop at the intersection at the highway and found that the pedal went straight to the

The car is now in as good a condition it was when I bought it, if not more so. I decided that this week I'd fix the things that needed fixing on my Buick Riviera. I went through a wrecking yard, and I got hold of some parts from a Buick Riviera S-Type. I got the Landau Vinyl roof chrome, the power mirror switch, and some other goodies. I suspect I'm going to be frequenting that auto wrecker to get as many optional items and necessary parts as I can. And they have a Seville, so I'll be pulling bits off that, too. So, I've replaced the shorted mirror switch, the roof chrome, the inner fenders have been fixed, the power antenna is working aga

I fixed the car! In time to break it... I rebuilt the last thing the brakes could have wrong with them... The proportioning block. That was the ticket, I cleaned it out, bled the back brakes first, then the front. They work fantastically now. Even the parking brake. So, on Saturday, I got a moving permit, and took it for a spin! The 307 wound up using $40 worth of gas to travel 240 kilometres (that's 150 miles) which isn't bad. Of course, things started to go wrong. One, that car is really damned wide. I learned that very soon when I had to drive through the old downtown of the small city where I live. Narrow streets and stuid drivers. I d