For sale or not for sale

For a brief moment I tried to sell my Caprice.

I was asking 10000 euros for it but no real buyers. I think the price was realy reasonable. Have seen these sold in police auction 6000,- dollars but those are in bad condition everything stripped. Just like my car was when i got it. Then it needs shipped here, thats 2000,- and taxes paid about 5000,- .

And it would still need to be rebuild like mine, thats easy 3000-4000,- euros.

So I think my price was very cheap.

Only copcar that i have seen sold, was in England and asking price was 30000,- £ !!!

My plan was to get an other one ( Crown Vic), that would be much less driven, not so old as my Caprice and it could be driven every day as a daily driver. Would had been unmarked one...
Will get one some day.

But for now, I will enjoy my Caprice, add some new toys to it and have fun.

Junkyard find

I managed to make great find in junkyard.

My old rear deck was horrible. Find a right color, decent shape carpet from junkyard. It has been sitting in carage. Finaly it is changed.

Looks good

Even had little help from my dumbass Brother.

Got new rooflight

I managed to find nice rooflight from Ebay and a seller who has low prices and what is more important; shipping realy cheap to Finland.

I was Very happy about it. Very happy.

But it was a bit disappointment when opened the box. UPS has managed to busted that light badly. Other side was cracked and inside the rotators were broken.

Rotators I managed to fix and glue back on, but one side of it is now busted... Looking for new part...

 

 

Yesterday we started to fix this lightbar with my brother. Took old amber traffic halogens off, and replaced them with Led ligts. Thats much better then those old 50W (six of them) halogens.

Those leds are REALY bright!

Electronics fitted nicely to behind lights

They are BRIGHT

Led units fitted just where old lights were. They are glued in.

Lights are taken from my old Voltex set, I got it from ebay. Here is sellers video those lights in use:

Lights are sold here: http://www.voltexlights.com/ and i can highly recommend them.

 

Few more pics

Hääauto Wedding car

Just a short video of my Caprice used as a wedding car. This is outside of Ulvila church.

Sananen suomeksi -something in finnish too

Laitetaan nyt pieni teksti suomeksikin, kun täällä kuitenkin käy porukkaa.

Tämä on siis blogi harrasteautosta, joka tuurilla tuli hankittua vuonna 2012.

Auto on aito poliisiauto jenkeistä, palvellut Los Angelesin sheriffillä partioautona kymmenen vuotta.
Tekniikka on edelleen rautaa, tosin yli 300tkm mittarissa on jättänyt jälkensä.

Olen auton "entisöinyt" perustaidoillani, en ole ammattilainen mutta pienet virheet antaa anteeksi kun tekee itse, eikös vain?

Olisi mielenkiintoista kuulla jos joku on sattunut vaikka bongaamaan auton jossain, ottaamaan jopa kuvankin. Lisäisin mielelläni muiden ottamia kuvia tähän juttuun.

Myös kysymyksiä olisi kiva kuulla; laittakaa niitä vaan tuohon alas niin vastailen varmasti!

Changing door handle

It was long time painful to get inside car. Pulling door handel didnt do nothing, had to you push door inbound to door open.
That is annoying.

My last trip to junkyard was succesful. Managed to find 1995 Caprice there and get some good parts from it and those were frikkin cheap too. I think I paid 5 dollars for that door handle.

Yesterday I opened my door panel (it is worn out, want to find new one same day).
Old handle is easy to remove. Its just two nuts 11mm (I think they are supposed to be 10mm but it didnt fit and 11m was a bit too big but did the job).

Door handle is only attached with one small plastic plug. It goes inside to that rod in picture and then snaps to it by locking it. I didnt do it right first time, didnt notice that top of rod goes INSIDE that handle. Got it right second time. (try it first until putting all parts and panel back, dumbass....).
Old door handle moving parts were very loose. Thats why it didnt worked as supposed to.

Now I am happy. It is so much better to go inside car. Small things make big difference...

From those holes you can access nuts. You need long tool.

That rod bends inside door handle, but it is only thing attached. Very easy to remove and replace.

Black is where the rod is. Red arrow spots the hinge that gets loose.