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Old 10-09-2021, 02:30 AM
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Definitely a dying art.

We have one guy left in the OKC metro who still runs the radiator shop his father started in the late 40s. One man operation. He recored my Z/28 radiator, as well as the one on my 69 Opel GT. Fortunately, he is just a few blocks from my office.

I also drug in the radiator off my British Limo (a Vanden Plas Princess). He immediately recognized it as a Rolls Royce radiator (Vanden Plas did the coachwork for Rolls and Bentley Limos in the 50s and 60s and used the same radiator on its own Limo). The old core was not salvageable, but he had a custom core made up, and it still runs as cool as a cucumber. Not cheap, but really no alternative.

Most larger metro areas have at least one traditional radiator shop left. I don't know what we will do when those guys start retiring. I suspect there will be one or two left in the country, and we all have to ship there.
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