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Exact displacement wasn't dictated. Performance characteristics and approximate displacement range were; the harder points of the design brief were manufacturability, cost-effective manufacturability, packaging constraints (must fit XYZ vehicles), compatibility constraints (must work with XYZ...

Pretty good in the protected environment of a closed taillight, but earlier in this thread I linked to the exterior version. No. Goes on a bit gloopy.

At the centre "heel" of the reflector, surrounding the terminals (outside) and filament capsule (inside). That's because when the glass reflector is being made, the glass sticks a bit to the stamper tool and when it retracts, it pulls the glass out of the intended shape. If that area were...

There are several ways, but let's try hitting two crawdads with one chopstick (engine size, whether or not it's potentially original to the car): what are the casting numbers on the manifold side of the block?

That's a '63 with home-made move of the controls up to the '64 location. All '63 A-bodies had that crappy little plastic box carelessly tossed under the dash, like "Awcrap, the heater controls! We forgot the heater controls! Where'll we put 'em; this car has to be DONE!".

Now we're talking turn signals, not headlamps – and one-touch three-flash was a thing before the current craziness in vehicle electrical architecture. Headlight: never. Daytime running light: sometimes. And this, too, is easy without "operate the switch to send an encoded message to beg the...

If only there were some kind of…like…a way how to build a circuit for park-tail-headlights on a car which (stay with me, this gets complex) doesn't involve voltage dividers or CAN or LIN buses. Like (just blue-sky spitballing here) maybe have a switch configured to make/break more than one...

It is very much worth your while to get the good gaskets for the manifolds-to-head, intake-to-exhaust, and exhaust-to-headpipe junctions. Find hardware and mounting-technique info here and here.

Hey, neat, where'd that '62 Lancer hoodbadge come from? Those get all pitted up from road rocks. Emblemagic did the '61, and it'll fit in a '62, but it's a different design.

Yeah, as I was saying: the European build of the Argentine rebody of the '63-'66 Dart – not the wider US/Australian '67-up A-body.

Not my car; I found it on a late-night EwTube rabbitholing run. It's at a dealership in MA; here. These cars are the European version of the Argentine "Dodge Coronado" rebody of the '63-'66 Dart. So they're the narrower A-body, not the wider US '67-up one. Mix of A- and B-body styling; it...

GM: the Mark of Excrements.

Shirley, you can't be serious. There is no right/wrong here. Your car is yours, set up the way you like it. His car is his, set up the way he likes it. It does sound like he was being a dіck, carrying on as if he gets a vote on your car and trying to "prove" you "wrong" about whether you...

Yes. No. No.

Here y'go.