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Freshly Sealed

Two different seals went on the car this week- the trunk seal, which was long overdue to be changed, and the passenger side door wing seal, which had pretty much disintegrated with the passage of decades.

The door seal was easy enough to install, after figuring out how to defy gravity and allow that nasty but effective black 3M sealant to dry.

I have heard that this seal is NLA but W&N still has them in stock.

The trunk seal proved to be more problematic with its own gravity issues. I even thought of taking the trunk off the car to do the installation, but in the final analysis it was easier to take the problem to Patrick at Midnight Motorsport and have him do the work. It turned out nicely.

Rear-End Records Deleted

I'm the first person to admit it - occaisionally I get absent-minded. This used to be especially distressing when I would forget to close the trunk before lowering the garage door.

What happened is that the bottom of the metal door track, which slides backward when the door is going down, used to hit the rear trunk trim. Thus I had a record, over the years, of how many times I had done this.

Depending on the position of the car at the time, the ding that that resulted when I lowered the door used to hit near the center-left of the trunk trim.  Here I count around six episodes, although there is evidence of more out of the picture frame.

Anyhow, the cost of a new piece of trim isn't really very high. I also replaced the small trim connector pieces, which were aged and nasty.  Result - a pristine, record-free transom.

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I only attempted this fix after going for at least a year ding-free, proving that an old person CAN learn new tricks.