Targa Top Latch Tweekage

This is trivial, but maybe some might find it a morsel of help.....

Recently my driver's side top latch didn't want to let go when asked, it started with a little stick and a minor bop would make it let go.  Last week I tried to take the top off and spent 20 minutes trying to gently coerce the side that is spring loaded but moves very little to release.

So this weekend I took the latch off of the top and fixed it.  I had to remove the vinyl cover (the middle button piece will go back on, the latch handle "rosette" I happen to have accidentally ordered thinking it was something else so I can put a new one on (not sure those are reuseable).  I found that there is a little plunger that pushes the spring loaded latch by several mm when unlocking.  That plunger's tab had somehow bent back enough to not really be engaging anymore.

A little tweak with a small screwdriver, a little clean and some fresh lithium grease and it's working perfectly once again.

Sorry, I was bent on fixing this little thing and didn't snap any detail pictures of it like I normally do.

Painted Wheel Cap Crests

Yesterday I had a rare opportunity of doing whatever I wanted to with my day.  I started with cleaning Glenda....which turned into jacking her up to take off the wheels to clean and polish them.....which included cleaning the wheel wells, then the top and underside of the engine.  As I was cleaning the wheels I decided to finally do a little detail work on the center caps I'd pondered for a while.

Several hours and a little testors enamel later I have painted logos :-)