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I honked twice as I drove by.....twice!
heres ours...
Larry T, shouldn't you be working on the Anglia? :D..........
In the machine shops around here, doing a 3 angle valve job on a set of heads, putting in 1.90/1.60 valves, and changing to screw in studs, will...
So we are only judging what NHRA approved? They never approved anything unless they made money out of it.. Garlits car was a narrow frame with a...
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IMO, NHRA and Wally got greedy about that time, saw the MONEY potential, forgot about the racers, and it went to hell from that point on.
My gripe with these people is not that they won't sell them..its theirs, but one day you drive by, and they sold it for pratically nothing, like...
make sure you ask the wheel base on a prewelded T frame..Mine came in at 123" (yes 123)...I hope to be shortening it about 6-8" in the near future...
My dad and I went to the OKCity show..we were both overwhelmed at the amount and quality of the cars...rode in Larry T's 34 International PU...was...
you can change out the studs to cleveland /boss 302 studs( use ARP studs) and use those engines rocker arms...also, cut the seats to accept the...
Been there man, and it sucks....take a little time off from it, and then do it right by pulling plugs, check to make sure its not hydrolocked, and...
I would sure like some of Fredrick...my dad raced there alot in the sixties and early 70's, and there were some great cars...
welcome from a parts guy in Texas....
Thanks for a great show guys...Like everybody else says, you guys are running out of room..but that may have been what made it such a great show....
I grew up in a parts store cause my dad worked at one starting in 1958..He was "let go" from the store 3 months ago after a Canadian company...
our 27.....
We'll be there. Hopefully my old man can go too....:cool:
or apply for a lost title...
Larry T would like this one....and I do too...
Drag racing started to get the Kids off the streets and to satisfy a need for competion that did not include driving a circle track car. That was...
Nope, my ex didn't like the car scene,the travel, the heat, the racing(aa/fa crew), the smell, the noise, or the people. But she said she liked it...
great pics...Thanks for posting them...
I did it 22 years ago out of necessity..If you didn't ride a horse in Vernon, you did not have anything to do..I did a car show by myself (what...
289-302 same mounts as 351w and the 351 cleveland.....
Sorry to hear about your loss. My dad is 80, my best friend, and he's been a car guy all his life.He taught me what a nice car is, and to do it...
the rocker arm shafts( both or just 1) are upside down...rotate them 180 degrees.....there are holes in them that feed the rocker arms...
Thanks for the great pics. the Pontiac Cat was way cool, but give me that white 36 Ford....
1. Find my dad's 40 Ford Pickup. 2. Go to Garlits museum. 3. Drive Route 66 in my Roadster. 4. Go to Bonneville during Speedweek. I got to...
We narrowed a Nine Inch rear 8"( 4" per side) , moved the short axle, which is 4 inches shorter, to the long side, and resplined the long axle...
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