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I fitted a driver's door lock to my 1954 Holden ute years ago but hardly ever locked the doors. The battery isolation switch and the manual...
Pre-emptive text wins again?
Maybe the original bolt has snapped off and is still in there?
Very early in our relationship (33 years ago) my wife saw a Kenworth truck cruising through the main street of Kings Cross, Sydney, Australia) and...
Some like the patina but not me. I'm not a Ford person but the finished job looks just right.
Yep. My wife snuck out with it and had it engraved for my 60th birthday. 7 years ago, time flies. I've entered for Mildura nostalgias.
Hey Harv, if you look close at my avatar you'll notice the orange fuel tank. That was made from an old b.b.q. bottle. Heavy little bugger. I got a...
How does he stay so slim after all these years?
Waste of a good spanner if you ask me.
Possibly that brass was actually bronze which if I remember is brass mixed with tin? Metallurgy gurus please correct me if I'm wrong.
It's either that way with what's available or walk home?
Aren't Jaguar same stud pattern as Chev?
Windscreens were still tempered in Australia well into the late '70s and early eighties. Seat belts were compulsory from 1971 so faceplanting a...
Brass is hot-short if I remember correctly which means if you heat the fitting it will snap.
Before I fired this thing up, I had a parrot sitting on my shoulder. I wonder where it went?
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