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Well, after 13 months I am on the home stretch now. I pulled this car out of a field in Pacoima--a $200 Craigslist find. It now sports a 299 inch...
When I was an idiot kid I got popped for doing 140 on Highway 5 just after leaving Pacheco Pass Road. It wasn't my car. I was delivering it to...
It was really a lot of fun. Learned so much about Downey City Politics today. Typical corruption, but in the end it looks like everyone will be...
OK. We'll be there with with my wife's '55 Stude pickup.
How many times does Warren Oates's (GTO) sweater change colors? I know I counted once, but have forgotten again. I think it was like the 3rd...
A rot free 2-door with good mouldings and chrome is easily worth a "g". It is a stick shift car? If so, dropping in a 289 and a 4-speed (or a...
Found this on the web--written by Leighzer--from the old newsgroup: As you will recall, the first modern US OHV V8 was the Cadillac 331-ci for...
A Lark by any other name . . . Last year of South Bend Stude production. Challenger is a low-end "Lark" type car, but eqipped properly it's a...
I play softball there every Thursday night. The have built a kids rec center on the spot and some ball fields. The rec center is built in the...
It's too late to bid on this one, but maybe you can contact the seller and work something out: http://www.whattheheck.com/ebay/buttkicker.html
Not a racing poem, but the best poem ever with a car in it: William Carlos Williams "To Elsie" from Spring and all (1923) The pure...
Love aluminum flywheels--they make an aggressive cam sound downright MEAN. Sure they're "no good" for the street. SO FUCKING WHAT?
The HUGE William Claxton book published by Taschen--signed by THE MAN himself. I'm still smiling . . .
You're right. Maybe I'm all pissy becuase my body and paint guy told me today "won't be done until mid-January." Got to say, what he's done so...
Hogwash. FDR's only real mistake as far as the economy goes was in 1938 when he took some bad advice and lowered tax rates on the rich. Big...
That's crazy talk! We've ALREADY sold our children's (and grandchidren's) future down the river by deciding that our economy is going to be...
I'm right. And it's time to face the facts that Keynes was RIGHT, Milton Friedman was WRONG and get to the task of turning this ship around!
The only thing that has ANY chance of turning things around is HUGE GOVERNMENT PUBLIC WORKS spending, even if the money is all borrowed. We need...
I had two. The first was a 1961 Chevy Biscayne 2-door sedan. It looked fast, but it had a tired 283 with a 3-on-the-tree. Would have been a...
Actually, Andy was a VP at Studebaker during the years Studebaker owned STP and Paxton.
Well, we are still at the point where the Chinese need US more than we need THEM, but we're getting close to the teeter-totter flipping the other...
Well, the primary responibility of the government these days IS "controlling the economy." Shall we abolish the Federal Reserve and the SEC and...
Heard him on the radio on Thursday (Bill Press Show). I agree--this man should have a BIG future in Michigan politics . . .
We've sold our children's (and grandchildren's) future down the river for the right to buy $19 DVD players at Wal*Mart. That's what happens when...
Truck ratios: 3.17, 1.75, 1.00, .722, rev 3.666 Car ratios: 2.49, 1.59, 1.00, .722, rev 3.154 Truck has straight cut 1st and 2nd gears and NO...
Why no OD? The T-85 with OD is a great compromise for the street. I have a T-85 OD from a Studebaker truck with the straight cut gears and the...
I put the wood slat back benches on hold for you today. Have some ideas about lighting. Let's try to get this fleshed out by early next week.
I thought they were more appropriate as well. Good call. The lamp is a bit "mod" as well, you might want to change that up as well . . .
No sweat. Happy to help!!
A Volvo motor/trans in a '46 Stude M series truck.
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