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They look like GOLDTOE Men's 656S Cotton Crew Athletic Socks, probably from Amazon or Costco.

I try and not get too distracted by this type of genre of collecting, but this was new, and cheap, and I had other parts in Japan waiting for shipment, so... What is great, is the spout pivots at the bottom, thus changing the spout angle, aiding pouring. Made of metal, I don't know its age, but I suspect more towards the 1960's rather than the plastic 1970's... Enjoy

I suspect that in order to be period correct, it should leak. 😄

Maybe he did what I did. Covered it from the inside? I used a piece of Gorilla tape from the inside instead of a chair leg cap on the outside. I was in a hurry, probably need to check that soon? 🤫

I saw these too and was tempted to get a set, but I snagged these Rotas from the Carlisle Import show instead:

Motorheads Season 1 Episode 10 starting at about 38:45 minutes in. The girl (and she is a Motorhead) just found this car in a junk yard because a Cardinal landed on the hood like a message from her passed away father. The episode ends with her looking at a Clymber manual on Z car building.

I don't know that I would call the inaccuracies mistakes but there are a number of them. The exhaust system is missing the center muffler. Many nut and bolt plating inaccuracies. Many. The shift boot is the later style. So is the choke knob. Master brake is later. Just to call a few. Very nicely done restoration, though. I'm excited to see the bidding on this one.

Installed the fan, 1st of many times, and the horns. I had the radiator re-cored back in 2021, it's been in a box in the loft for 4 years. I had the brake booster re-done as well in 2021. I tried to rebuild the brake master cylinder but...........I'm about to learn something. I have a few fenders off that parts car and measured and located the holes for the emblems, as well as the hatch. My hatch emblem holes were covered up, but I could find them from inside the hatch, underneath. So I removed the hatch. The fenders had no holes as the bottoms of them were replaced. The master cylinder on my car leaked, not only the copper sealing washers leaked, but was leaking back into the brake booster. Not a good situation with all this fresh nice paint. It was about this time I realized I don't even have the correct master cylinder on this car. The rear reservoir is going to the front and visa versa. That's the way I found it. Makes me wonder of it really makes any difference, this swap was done decades ago. It just so happened I got a master cylinder with my parts car, and it was the correct one. It had one good cap. Here's what an early cap looks like. Too late to stop now, haha, dang it, so I sent it to White Post Restorations. I installed it and guess what, it leaked...out the copper sealing washers where those big fittings are on the bottom. Because these new copper sealing rings are too hard, harder than they used to be, I heated them up to a glowing red, to anneal them, align the properties. I don't think it matters how you cool copper, quickly or slowly, the end result is the same. Sure enough it made them soft and they sealed.