Monthly Archives: November 2013

Lily Restoration Series 60

Jon Yinger passed along this video of his series 60 Lily undergoing a complete restoration finishing with a mild custom. There are some nice still of the engine compartment both before and after the restoration. He has a nice shot at the end with it cruising down the road. He also passed along a link to the rest of the cars in his collection.

I am going to add another category for videos on the right hand side to make these easier to find. I will try to categorize these as much as possible but some will just be eye candy.

49 Chapter Revival

First off, a big THANK YOU for all of the kind words on the Cadillac LaSalle forum on the revival of the 49s chapter and this Web Page. I started out this site as an experiment. I am in the process of getting three start-up companies off of the ground and I needed some content to learn WordPress for my other companies. Now I am chapter president. Hmmmmm fate can be truly strange. Anyhow, going forward we have an opportunity with the Internet to bring valuable information to everyone across the globe. We are averaging 90 unique visitors per day so it looks like we are fulfilling a need. We also have the old newsletters stored as an electronic magazine with a link on each page. So now you can take your tablet or other mobile device with you to your car and search this page or look at an old newsletter while you are working on your car. It is up to you to figure out how to keep your greasy fingers off of the display.

Going forward, I would like us to use more of the technology that we now have available such as videos. Think back to the time you did your first brake job and how nice it would have been to have a video showing instructions that you can watch as you are working rather than a shop manual or through brute force. Most of us have cell phones with video cameras. Even a short video of some stills of assembly and reassembly would be helpful to someone else. If you don’t know how to post a video to YouTube or some other video sharing site, do some Internet searching or go find a teenager to teach you. Once you get it posted, send me the link and a short description in the contact form and I will post it here.

Knowledge sharing is what is going to keep this hobby alive long after we have hung up our keys. So as we work on our projects this winter, try to come up with a video or even a few sentences of lessons learned the hard way that you can pass along to others.