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The side door overshot is run in on tubing or drill pipe. Line can be fed into the tool by removing the door on the side of the bowl. The door is put back into position after the line is in place. The feature eliminates the necessity of cutting the line or cable and the possibility of the lines fouling when there are two lines in the hole.

Overshot is a very common fishing tool. The main fishing object is a smooth tube fish, which belongs to the external fishing type (i.e. catching the external surface of the fish).

Brass candle holder made of bell metal. Curled lip around round base. Height of candle can be adjusted by a handle through a slot in the side of the shaft.

Handmade oak chair. Slat-back (three slats). Two rungs on each side between legs. Tongue and groove construction. Rawhide seat (brown cow hair worn in center of seat) attached to frame with rawhid...

Watchman"s lantern. Iron and glass; wire guards forming a circular-shaped cage around glass; whale oil burning; top is in the form of a four-sided pyramid and is decorated on each side with a star-in-...

Black cast iron fireplace tongs. Hinged with spring at top. Square curved claws with five tines each. Claws have open heart-shaped design. Stamped into inside face of each claw "1".

Foot warmer; wooden frame (a) with wire handle for carrying, metal container (b) has holes punched in the top and sides and door on one side for inserting coal.

We had ’71 and ’72 LeSabre’s in the family simultaneously. The ’71 was a sedan with the B pillar and those doors closed with a solid thunk. The ’72 was a bucket of bolts pos hardtop and I had forgotten about not being able to close the door on the first try.

I wonder how these compared to the equivalent Marquis or Monaco when new. I have the 1974 Mercury brochure and the Marquis looks pretty good, you could even get leather as an option. Even the Monterey door panels looked better than this Olds.

There’s a ’73-74 Galaxie 500 for sale at my local Ace Hardware, so I took a look at the interior. The armrest supports and B-pillars are made of the same plastic as the Delta 88’s door panels. It makes me wonder–if somebody had maintained the plastic with Armorall from the beginning, how would it have held up? After all, the car I looked at is 37+ years old, and the plastic was somewhat deteriorated, but still hanging in there.

I had a ’73 Galaxie 2 dr hardtop from 2000 ’til 2005 and it had the same crappy plastic door panels, with identical stress cracks on BOTH armrests from the same screw to the vinyl pad. behind the door handle. I think this was an industry-wide syndrome, even VW was using pressed-cardboard paper panels and black plastic interiors at the time.

With all the complaining about GM and Ford plastic door panels, I’m reminded of the even crappier panels on the foreign cars of the same era. Vinyl-wrapped masonite! Now that was crap.

It amazes me that we used to consider vinyl seats acceptable in a near-luxury or luxury car. In the early 70’s you could even get vinyl seats in a Cadillac (the Calais).

However, not all 70’s GM interiors were like that, especially if you upgraded to a Ninety-Eight or Electra, most of which had various kinds of fabric on the seats (brocades in 1971-73, with velours coming in especially in ’74) and better materials on the doors.

By business partner in Saskatchewan has a very nice 1977 Cadillac Sedan Deville. While riding around in it last summer, ever time I had to close the door it took two tries. It made me remember the old saying from the 1970s, “GM two slam doors.” Anyway, my partner used to swear how great these old sleds are as daily drivers and steadfastly refused to drive anything else, even though is is quite well to do. That is until his wife put her foot down and demanded he get something more respectable and practical. Now he has an Acura TL and he never touches the Caddy.

It is funny considering we are talking about cars developed over 30 years apart. Today’s Cadillac’s do not require two door slams from any that I have driven.

Paul, we need (or maybe we don’t) a close-up shot at the GM “Mark of Excellence” – the large, full-depth cracked padded dash! You just teased us with the dashboard shot! How dare you! The first time I looked at the full-sized Chevys beginning with that year in the showroom of Daoust Chevrolet in Marysville, Ca, I was shocked, to say the least! It was a Caprice 4 door hardtop, and upon closing the doors, the entire “B” pillar along with the doors visibly shook! As much as I preach about pillarless hardtops on here and on TTAC, I imagined getting T-boned in this coast-to-coast expanse of sheet metal and plastic and cringed. The door panels? Indeed! Hard, multi-piece plastic with a couple of pieces covered in vinyl and carpet, all screwed together. Very flimsy. Under the hood? Those bracing bars to try to hold all the excess metal from falling off and flapping around. What happened, Chevy? Why did you do this? I was just as disillusioned about Chevy as Jack Baruth was as he discovered the truth about Mr. D.E.D when growing up! I decided right then and there I would never own one of these, pillarless or not, sad to say. I focused my attention on the Chevelle and Nova sitting nearby. Later, the Vega. Wow. Another story. Gee, Paul, thanks for the awful memory! Still fun, though!

I do admit the door panels on this particular 88 do look somewhat “cheap”, but that was the price of admission or compromise to getting a car in the lower medium price range, that, driveability wise and with other features, more than made up for the bargain door panel assemblies and seats. The 88’s of the day were a better full size value than the competition including intra-divisional comparable rivals from Chevy, Pontiac and Buick. Certainly a better car than competing Dodge Polaras/Chrysler Newports (sans 440 V-8).

BTW – m brother in law had a ’71 Delta 88 up in Eureka, Cal – T-boned by a drunk – he walked away without a scratch after being hit on the DRIVER’s side. Drunk in a Nissan – not so lucky.

I remember looking one of these over 4 sale in Sydney it looked cheap inside compared to my 83 Commodore It ran ok but I figured the gas bill would kill me so passed it up.

I’d rather be in a crash in the ’73 than the ’63 with that dashboard and the non collapsible steering column. While the ’63 is obviously aesthetically cleaner, the ’73 is more ergonomic and certainly safer once your knees smash into it if you’re not wearing at least the lap belt portion of those two part seat belts. Aside from it being a regulation, It wouldn’t make a whole lot of sense to be making a metal dash when industry wide, all cars were like this by then. Even designwise, the earlier dash is rather spartan if you picture it replicated in the ’73.

In that Delta’s defense I think it is a base model and there was a Royale model that had a much nicer interior. My mom’s ’72 Toronado had the same dash with gold applique vs the woodgrain, although the passenger’s side was slightly different. I think it was a pretty cool looking dash overall.

This base Olds 88 interior was a bit upscale from that year’s Chevrolet Impala, which did not have carpeted lower door panels, chrome-trimmed pedals, the deluxe steering wheel and column that were color-keyed (all Impalas and other ’73 Chevys had black steering wheels and steering columns regardless of interior color). The Delta 88 was on par with a base model Buick LeSabre and in between Pontiac’s Catalina and Bonneville. The Delta Royale added a much nicer interior trim just below the level of a Chevy Caprice and on par with a Bonneville (Pontiac’s top-line series at that time was the Grand Ville) or Buick LeSabre Custom or Centurion. A Royale Town Sedan came with a full front bench seat in cloth or vinyl while the Royale Holiday Sedan and Holiday Coupe came the same upholstery selections but with a notchback bench seat with armrest, and the convertible used a all-vinyl interior with the notchback bench seat.

1973 Chevrolet Impala interior. Notice the black steering wheel, column and instrument panel trim. Also, plain plastic door panels with no carpeted lowers.

Close up view of ’73 Chevrolet Impala dash – Green interior with black steering wheel and column, and instrument panel trim. This was America’s best-selling car in 1973. Trade up to a Caprice and you’d get a color-keyed custom steering wheel, woodgrain instrument panel trim and upgraded door panels with assist grips and carpeted lower sections.

And now the interior of a 1973 Ford Galaxie 500. Somewhat better than the GM cars but not much. This was not a great period for car interiors except for a few luxury models. Probably the best car interiors in 1973 came from Pontiac, which had magnificent wrap-around cockpit instrument panels on its big cars and on the Grand Prix and Grand Am. The GP and GA both had dashboards with Genuine African Crossfire Mahogany trim that was repeated on the console in both cars and the door panels on the GP. Not even the more expensive Cadillacs, Lincolns or Imperials had them.

Wow…that view of the green 1973 Impala dash is EXACTLY the same view I had the day I took my driving test in 1983. My parent’s first brand new car was a dark metallic green four door 1973 Impala. It had the same green vinyl seats and green dash as shown in this picture–we had the same black steering wheel too. I liked the car–a lot….but I never did fall in love with the “poverty” dog dish hubcaps that came with the car. My favorite memory is of listening to the 350 engine exhaust from the back seat. I don’t know if it had duals from the factory, but I always remember seeing two pipes under the bumper–the duals did not have an H pipe, so it had a certain staccato edginess to it.

J.B., your ’73 Delta 88 is a Royale Holiday Coupe, which has a nicer interior than the base Deltas and a lot more upscale than a ’73 Impala. Great looking car. I do agree GM used cheapie materials for the door panels at that time but that was probably necessary to meet Federal safety standards as was the dashboard design.

I never understood the facination for Mercedes cars. In particular the cars from the 1970’s, 1980’s and early 1990’s. The seats are too hard, the steering wheel too large, with a rigid angle and impossible to tilt, Even the S models in the1980’s. I drove them brand new up untill 1984. You cannot sit straght up restring both arms evenly on the door and the center arm rest. Whereas you can steer a US full size car with two finges whilst driving over 70 miles per hour, you will need to hold firmly on the steeringwheel in a Mercedes 250/300 to keep in straight on the road, ispecially with cross winds. This is the reason why many buyers of old Mercedes taxis lower the cars in the front. Up untill the design changed to the circular headlighst in the 1990’s, we called the 250/300 cars for “slam twice” cars, as you had to slam the doors twice to close them, if all windows or the sunroof was closed.

And now the interior of a 1973 Ford Galaxie 500. Somewhat better than the GM cars but not much. This was not a great period for car interiors except for a few luxury models. Probably the best car interiors in 1973 came from Pontiac, which had magnificent wrap-around cockpit instrument panels on its big cars and on the Grand Prix and Grand Am. The GP and GA both had dashboards with Genuine African Crossfire Mahogany trim that was repeated on the console in both cars and the door panels on the GP. Not even the more expensive Cadillacs, Lincolns or Imperials had them.

1973 Buick Centurion interior. A step from either the base LeSabre and LeSabre Custom. Added custom steering wheel and notchback bench seat or optional 60/40 bench seat. Door panels, however, were identical on all the B-body Olds, Buick, Pontiac and Chevrolet full-sized cars with upholstered upper section and hard plastic lower. Much nicer door panels with full-length door rests housing power window and seat controls were included on most Olds 98 and Buick Electra 225 models, and all Cadillacs.

1973 Pontiac Grand Ville with optional Custom interior that added upgraded upholstery and trim patterns along with cut-pile carpeting, pull straps on rear of front seat and, on sedans, 2 rear cigar lighters. Unquestionably the most luxurious interior in any GM B-body car that year. But still the same old plastic lower door panels as lesser models and not quite up to the standards of the door trim of the ’70 Bonneville Brougham.

I had a ’73 Delta 88 4 door hardtop with the 455 Rocket in college. BEST CAR I EVER OWNED! Gas was cheap, and that beast could burn rubber all day. People don’t believe me when I tell them it had 2 in-dash ashtrays; one for the driver and one for the passanger. Car was HUGE, took over 20 feet of speaker cable to put 6x9s in the trunk! Just wish I hadn’t blown the motor and sent it off to the crusher, was planning on turning it into a full time convertable the following summer. Oh the memories…

My parents traded in a ’67 Mercury Monterey 4 door sedan for a ’73 Delta 88 Royale 4 door hardtop with a base 350 2 barrel I remember when I was 16 back in ’79 I revved the car in neutral and slammed it in drive a the front two wheels came off the ground my friends were laughing. That was a indestructible car. I now own a ’67 Mercury Monterey like my dad had I ironically just did brakes on a ’72 Delta Royale for a friend

The car came with an 8-track AM/FM, tilt wheel, and that beloved in-dash ‘Fasten Seat Belts’ insane flashing square (1″ x 1.5″) and the beloved SIREN of death (that finally found it’s death-horn hotwire cut). The only ‘design fault’ that our family agreed (the buzzer was Fed-mandated) should have been designed differently was the joiner-strip between the front and rear door windows, which was an interesting concept in ‘removing the B-pillar’ that didn’t work. It didn’t work, and the rainwater coming in like a hosepipe proves it didn’t work on the highway, or the carwash. Chevy’s of the same era suffered the same fatal flaw.

Our car STILL drives around town. After my immediate family bought it and sold it to my aunt in 1983, she gave it to her ex-husband in settlement in 1990. He drove it until 2001, when he sold it to another in 2008, and it now is in it’s fifth owner’s hands – and still doesn’t look that bad 32-years later. No telling how many miles it has on it, since it left the family’s control at around 274,000 miles – but I’m anxious to see a modern 4-door sedan capable of comfortably carrying 6-adults, a dog, and 800-pounds of groceries in the largest mafia trunk ever put into a car, like this car could.

Talking about faults with plastic you have to live with here, there is an issue about the arm rests panels on the doors. The plastic gets fragile with age. I have a spare set, which I plan to reinforce with fiber glass on the back side, before installing them.

In the case of the highway, those big ol cars flexed and flopped around like a waterlogged mattress! The result? That meeting point between the front and rear side windows opened up intermittently, letting the wind whistle in on a dry day, and rain when it was wet.

I can picture it now, going over closely spaced deck joints on a long highway bridge: b-bump-fsss! b-bump-fsss! I’m sure you could see the door panels and dash twisting and flexing in such a scenario, and the backs of the front seats(if buckets, leaning in toward each other, then outward, with every bounce over a deck joint, lol