another detail.....the pitman-arm was untreated, bare steal, so very prone to rust. I ordered RPM, from a company called ECS Automotive; bare steel part needs to be heated a little, smeared in with colorless RPM and this stuff will prevent the part from rusting, but you still keep the original bare look. Pitman-arm is untreated, bare; the snapring and nut were cleaned and i found out that the snap-ring is black fosfated, and the nut is natural cadmium plated.

after hours and hours of searching, i finally found out how all original bolts and nuts were finished...black fosfate, silver cadmium plated, yellow dichromate...etc etc.

Chrysler used multiple vendors for their small parts supply; trunklock and catcher were silver cad treated, and the hoodlatch and hoodlock were dichromate yellow; and so these will be treated the same again. The bolts were black fosfated originally, and they will be again..50 years after production

k-member will be a greyish color, instead of the original black finish; a few k-members were bought by Chrysler from another vendor, and they painted the k-members a greyish color; as was mine. So it will be original finish again. Leafsprings will be a silk-flat black; Max Wedge cars got the police-style leafsprings, that were black instead of untreated bare steal, like the lesser powered cars had.

My dad made some steel plates to close the axle-case; I brought the stuff to the powdercoater this afternoon to give it some new paint.

Our new government wants to piss us vintage-car-lovers even more off... now they want to have us paying taxes for our cars.... Why aren't they chasing the real criminals and losers who don't make any positive contribution to our society. I say... DUTCH GOVERNMENT A BIG F.U.

because my physical condition is a little on the low side the last few weeks, i didn't do much on the car, except for taking some parts off the partscar. Took a door apart. Nice spareparts for the Savoy.