A TCL First? '67 Rolls Royce project thread...

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coming up on a month now of running around town and in traffic and its been going well.

had a bit of a scare with the charging system the other week. turned on all of the lights and the alternator light came on. turned out to be just a loose connector on the voltage regulator, but i was a bit worried we'd have to do some quick service in the parking garage. at least its a fairly easy system to troubleshoot.
also the wipers are working well now, as its been out in some rain. the motors were making some noise before but i think with some use theyve freed up a bit.

still on my list to get some proper rolling shots of it out in the wild while the weather is nice...


and for a random side not... i think i found the coolest RR photo online last week

9-7-2014

picked up our first bit of hardware a couple weeks ago



second place at a small car show, the monster truck just behind got first.




also it seems the extended use may be taking a toll on one of the brake accumulators. the number of pumps until the warning light comes on, with the engine off, is down to around 40 or so. as i recall thats around threshold for a recharge. and unlike the other accumulator, that one doesnt seem to hold pressure overnight. will definitely be keeping an eye on that

and on the annoying-but-minor issues list, the drivers side rear door is really squeaky and makes some rather undignified noises as you operate the door
on the recommendation of the RROC guys ive got some boeing grease that should help that out.

10-6-2014

we spent a good part of the afternoon/evening yesterday holding up traffic on various bridges around portland and taking rolling shots. i think we got a few really incredible ones, and some im pretty excited about in a few stationary locations as well.

a cellphone preview...




i hope to have them online in the next day or two


and the car ran great all day in some pretty warm weather. also the first time ive had a chance to drive behind it. turns out it doesnt smell too bad for a car from the 60s once its underway


edit, however.. we didnt make it to this

itd definitely be cheaper to buy a sorted one, or one that only needs some minimal work, from an RROC member than to bring one back to life.





























heres the whole album


i wasnt the only one taking pictures, so hopefully we can get some of the others posted as well

10-19-2014

couple other shots, not mine this time










will have more when we pack it up for the winter in a few weeks

10-24-2014

an update on this...
i dont know if anyone on here is a hemmings sports and exotic car mag subscriber, but we got a little one page blurb about this car in the "my car and me" section of the december issue!

i dont know if its on news stands yet, but we're really excited to see it printed. they told us it would appear in an issue but we werent sure which one at that time.
unfortunately we didnt have the most recent set of photos at the time, but its really exciting to see it in print!

11-9-2014

this was a pretty impromptu couple of shots, that got cut off by the rain, but i really liked the colors

usually this has a ton of equally colorful leaves on the parking lot as well but it looks like someone cleaned up today











more to come when we pack it up for the winter