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we painted my buddy Steve's 48 Desoto metallic blue with a Kirby vacuum cleaner. The paint went on so dry that it was flat blue metallic. LOL I...
Nothing new I have been concentrating on house stuff. Winter is giving me a good hard look. LOL
LOL I worked at a Buick dealership once. I spent as much time fishing broken bolts out as I did car repairs. I finally explained to one of the...
speed handles. Dad used them for spark plugs. He had a race with a guy that was using an impact once. He won and said, "And none of mine are...
aww come on. let's show 'em :D I have lots of obscure tools. My favorites are a tool kit for a Model A, original paint in perfect condition. They...
you missed out. LOL
the bodies were cheap and plentiful
Dad's roadster just had a couple toggles on the dash. Each had a jewel light to indicate that it ws pn.
Billy I use hand signals all the time, I have never owned a bike with turn signals and a lot of my old cars/trucks don't have them either. As for...
I windowed a 300 once. It was in a '62 unibody that I bought. Recently overhauled. The rod in question had been put in backward by whomever did...
I have most of a pair of 39 Ford lights. Good original lenses and bezels. A pair of Frenching buckets. I could use the electric part of the...
I am not sure if the car was headed for the bull ring or not. It has all new glass so that may suggest that someone was building a circle track...
new old fenders. Mrs Beaners found these. Won't have time to mess with them for a minute. The fronts may still need to be clearanced a little bit...
This is absolutely correct ^^^^^ You are going to want a closed chamber head at the very least. Open chamber heads are kind of lazy and you are...
The top bumper resembles about a 50 merc. Like 49/50 maybe 51
Depends on the water pump more than anything else. Long pump V short pump. Sometimes you have to shim the the crank pulley, the shims are cheap....
Love the gauge panel. I just do not remember what the comet used. If it is a drop out chuck the axle retainer is on the bearing. if it has a back...
It may be the retainer, or more likely the axle bearing. That said I have run lots of rears that had a little play. School me here, those are...
You are a good man @Glenn Thoreson . :cool: The only legit repair for that axle would involve welding it up, and turning it down to original...
A leaf spring is not variable rate. The rating does not increase by compression. If it takes X pounds to compress the spring one inch it takes 2X...
They were gonna run nitrous in the other tubes. :rolleyes: :D :D I started to say something here and realized that I really do not have a...
Came across this today. It could have been MoKan but it is not. [ATTACH]
You can buy motor mounts from Transdapt or Advance Adapters. Both older established companies. If I recall you will have to use a truck oil pan....
If you have an original column but no key just take it to a locksmith. He can get the cylinder out then you can just buy a new cylinder at the...
The early axles were forged but I don't think they were hardened. I have cut extra keyways in them no problem.
I used to work with a guy that did it all the time. He never hardened 'em. He did do a class A finish and add extra keyways to 'em.
Yup ^^^^^
I broke my 355 in on a garden hose. I did not do it out of choice. I fired it, had a crack open up on the pass head in the combustion chamber on...
Denny Love the Stones on the rear. What are they? I mean other than Firestones
I often blame my dad for the way that I am. Truth is that I am responsible for my own actions. :D Dad started playing cars and motorcycles with...
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