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Motor is all together on the stand ready to go. I managed to find an Ansen blow proof bell housing with out having to sacrifice a testicle to pay...
I am from Syracuse, home of the Franklin factory. My former boss owned a 1928 12B that I rebuilt the motor in. The updraft carbs on those were...
I hear you there, I have a "Karen" next door that told our local zoning guy I was running an illegal auto repair shop and cutting up cars in my...
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I was able to get some measurements and start laying out the cradle for the fuel cell and battery. Also I made the panhard bar brackets and got...
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I took a couple of 3" muffler clamps and welded on some scrap steel so I could hang the rearend in the correct spot. [ATTACH] Then I was finally...
Here is ZZ no Top after pulling the motor and her off topic fraternal twin.[ATTACH]
The guy I bought the blower from is a buddy who pulled it off a 80's ZZ Top lookalike duece roadster. The car had less than 10k on it since it was...
It is a small journal 327 that is still stock bore. So we are doing .030" over for a 331. Forged flat tops with a 76cc cast iron head... yes...
5'4" so my head won't hit anything, the real problem in these trucks is leg room. Lucky for me those are damn short as well.
I think this is pretty close, again sorry about my photoshop skills.[ATTACH]
Okay so I am wrapping up the chassis hopefully this weekend and the motor is off to the machine shop next week... Which leaves me to order a bed...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Making a bit more progress, motor mounts and tranny mount this weekend.... then wrap up the steering.
Love the look of this truck except the trimmed lower valance area.
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