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I think the car is a Jaguar Maybe Mark 8 or 9 with left hand drive
Why did you take out the picture of the Rolls Royce Silver Cloud 1 they was manufactured from 1955 to early 1959 ?
I think it is on a Bentley chassie with a coachbuilt body.
He is referring to a vibrator type power supply that used a OZ4A vacuum tube like in the old vacuum tube radios in cars. The 0Z4A is a gas-filled,...
This is a very nice well done custom Chevy.
My guess is a mid 40's GM Oldsmobile or Cadillac
One of the best custom I have seen, love it Thanks for the details on the build.
Sheetmetal one piece roof that is painted.
The crown coversion was a mid engine car.
A V8 Corvair would have also needed disc brakes on all 4 corners.
I have lots of great memories and the HAMB bring more back all the time.
HEMIDAV, you are correct on the valve settings. My memory is get foggy at 80 years old.
The fuel injection motor also had solid lifters in 1965. If I remember correctly the valve setting on a cold motor was .008 intake and .018 exhaust.
I would have bought one. The Corvair engine was very good if you treated it as air cooled engine.
I think it a 1965 based on the corvette emblem on the rear of the corvette ahead on the line 1966 emblem had a bigger C. It is a big hp engine.
The 00 red corvette is an after market body.
1956 Ford
1935 Willys
ratreo, get some bauxite and put on the dampened T shirt, let it set for couple of day. The red that remains and will not wash out.
The headlight rotary buckets look like the early fiberglass ones only used for a short time before going to the pot metal rotary buckets.
Delta - C & S was Delta - Chicago and Southern.
The closest thing that I could find on the car next to the 34 Ford was a 1930s Studebaker Erskine. Hood that matches on ebay. Other pictures...
If I remember correctly, my MK 9 Jaguar with a Borg Warner had the same pattern on the automatic transmission with R at the bottom.
You are correct.
They had a bolt on adapter like the Corvettes, 1963 to 1966. Instead of having 5 pins that fit into holes in the wheel the adapter and wheel had...
The top picture of the Spyder has real Chevrolet knock off wire wheels. The wheels were star drive with the two bar spinners.
Normally when a piston is knurled only the lower end of the skirt is done. You will need new pistons when you rebuild the engine and the correct...
[IMG] New Orleans, LA Carollton Ave and Saint Charles Ave.
That is a Chevrolet El Morocco
Back in the day old time experienced machinist could do this without a problem, He is using the stick as a guide as he pulls the drill out guided...
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