This year, as part of the annual maintenance and service, Concours Cars noticed a gentle leak from the radiator. Not really a leak per se, more like weeping from one of the seams. What to do? I could have just left it, but there’s one thing that we battle with in Colorado Springs with a normally aspirated car apart from the sheer hell of tuning it for the altitude, and that’s the heat in the summer. Let’s put it like this, driving on the Interstate (or even around town come to that) in the mid-afternoon on a lovely sunny hot summer’s day, that water temperature gauge starts to go above the 212°F mark. Turn on the A/C and we’re talking approaching the 230°F mark at the top of the gauge. And with the road works we have on I25 at the moment, it’s stop and go sometimes, and I start getting really worried about the water blowing the radiator cap. […]
New gauges for the Volvo 1800S
During the latter part of June and the beginning of July, while I was on business travel (and the wildfires threatened Colorado Springs), 64SAINT was at Concours Cars having its annual service and makeover. This time it was the gauges (tachometer, oil and water temperature, speedometer, fuel gauge, oil pressure, and clock) that needed to be refurbished or renovated and replaced. As there was also a split in the dashboard cover, that was replaced as well. […]
Modern silicone rubber
Last year, in 2011, I asked Concours Cars to get rid of the bloody awful exhaust system put on when the car was renovated and that was there when I bought it. You can see it here from the side of the car: […]