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How very true !! The deep roots of hot rodding go back to the days when every joe with a spanner and an oily rag was trying to make his banger...
There was a guy called Carol Shelby, used to squeeze big American V8 engines into small British AC sports cars. They went like the clappers....
I would definitely agree with this, a really good starting point.
Yup, that is the exact same model A I was thinking of. A real sleeper if ever there was one, and it goes around corners pretty well too. My...
It may have been the same car, but I saw an article in a British magazine about a guy that did exactly that. But he ordered them specially made...
I have never seen anything like this around either. I bet there would be a market for something like this, among both restorers and rodders,...
Does anyone know if there are ten spoked aluminium wheels being manufactured that can be made to look like the old original wooden wheels of the...
Yes all the older Jaguars such as XJ6 mostly use 15 inch steel rims, The more recent ones like Xj40 , V8 and V12 Jaguars use 16 inch rims with...
I would personally prefer full registration. But a permit offers a lower cost and simpler way to get onto the street for many of us. The high...
What I plan to do, is first research all the limitations for full street rego, for example original frame/crossmember and original steel body,...
Was not sure of the year, but 1930 onwards sounds about right for the change to crown wheel and pinion. These much longer wheelbase 1.5 ton...
The early TT rears were worm gear, but the later ones were the more normal crown and pinion with a ratio around 7:1. . I believe there was also...
What exactly for ?
Just like a young punk to forget all about the middle aged 80+. I have visions of a very angry mob a screamin and a hollerin and waving their...
This is fantastic !!! I have always used grease too, and made an awful mess. I believe child's play putty works pretty good as well, but wet...
The 60+ is filling up quite nicely. Which suggests we probably do have a few hemi powered rocking chairs around here.
Hehehe, abrasive personalities and strongly held opinions can sometimes be very detrimental to some very interesting and informative threads....
Are you going to leave the fame in primer ??? If not, what difference does the colour make ?
O/k found exactly what I wanted. For anyone using the search function trying to discover this for themselves, here it is : [IMG]
Anyone know what the typical unladen weight is of an AA truck ? This is difficult to find, because these trucks came in a range of...
Anyone tried a gear drive ?
It is not being sued you probably need to worry about. Just being run off the road, beaten up or maybe shot at.
It should work. After all, many engines still have timing chains that see hundreds of thousands of miles. In fact, some of the DOHC Japanese...
If you don't mind being sprayed with muddy oily water and rocks from your own front wheels, and the extra stone chips on your rusty rat rod are of...
I like it. But it is a radical custom, not a hot rod.
Only way it could work is with very long wheelbase, and about 99% of the weight on the rear wheels, as in a slingshot dragster. For any type of...
Da deuce Mafia it is called. The Godfather will chop your body, and split your bones.
A good daily driver, something that stops, steers, rides and handles really well, but still has the old car mystique is my goal too.
You could always fit an ejector seat like the one James Bond had in his Aston Martin.
If the spring on one side becomes an inch longer, and the spring on the other side other an inch shorter, the body pivots like a see saw between...
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