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"and who pays $100/hr for labor."........Dude, you should come over to New York, that's who pays 100 an hour! Our local Mercedes clown is getting...
I'm always butting heads with one of my buddies who's an engineer and can only do things one way, and that's total overkill. Harbor Freight is my...
I don't think it's so much an issue of drums vs. discs - rather an issue of power vs non-power brakes. I drive a '67 LTD and '60 Falcon pretty...
Yup, '41 Dodge....DeSoto had vertical tail lights that were flush with the body, not add on torpedoes atop the fenders
No, you're not being a dick, I just didn't think that simply throwing the numbers on Google would get any results. Sometimes the answer's so...
HEADS: GM 4 in center, 3782461 (6 may be a G, hard to tell) J 304 there's also a 13 cast by one of the bolt holes BLOCK: #s are off the pads by...
Thanks so far for the input on the 327 & 4 speed I posted yestereen. Ok, I found the block numbers, didn't see them the first time around, as they...
Thanks guys, keep 'em coming! This only proves to the wife that I'm not the idiot she likes to think I am!! My take on it: YES, something new...
I'm in the market for a "new" (trust me, it won't be brand new) car and I'm thinking of plunkin' my butt back in another old tank. Just trying to...
I'll stick with un-chopped. What really does it for me is the resto-rod...looks bone stock until you pop the hood. Chopping just seems to wreck...
Ok, I found the block numbers, didn't see them the first time around, as they were caked with grease. Also solved the mystery on the green/gold...
No date codes or markings on the sides of the block. By the oil filter boss, there's a 312 and under that a 66 N By the fuel pump boss, there's...
Time to be cleanin' the garage in prep for my next project, and just wondering what I should be askin' for some of this stuff: Have a 350 horse...
If you're gonna be scrapping the 6 cyl, let me know & maybe we can work something out...I'm restoring my grandfather's '60 back to stock & need a...
Grille looks like it's from a '38 Caddy V-16 and headlights may be Chevy or Buick. The chrome strips on top of the headlights look like they're...
Worst car for me was a '90 Plymouth Grand Voyager....how about 7 trannies in under 45K? Only car I ever had that I really WANTED to like, it just...
My first car was a '60 Falcon w/ the 144 & stick. I think the only thing slower was a Bug. My big joke was "Any moron can race another car, it...
For me, it was a '59 Eldorado Seville. Persian Sand (a funky dusty rose color) w/ parchment vinyl top. Seemed really cool at the time, now seems...
Starting to go through the multiple piles of what the wife calls "crap" in the garage tonite, and came across two carbs I don't remember having....
Boy, that is depressing, can't even tell there was once a beautiful scrapyard where all those big houses are! Here's another great bone-yard of...
Caddys had the X frames from I think '58 to '64. They went to perimeter frames in '65. I read somewhere they got a lot of criticism (probably from...
Here in NY (Long Island especially) the tables are decidedly tilted against diesel cars. You can no longer purchase a new diesel passenger car in...
Thanks for all the feedback! Maybe I should just say screw it, and go with either Plan B or Plan C: Plan B is a Mercedes diesel into a Dodge...
Too bad all the good "old school" yards up here in the NY area have been eaten up by the real estate developers. There used to be a great yard...
Depends on what vintage - have a '48 Dodge in the garage, and I had a '66 Newport that was a fun car (only car I ever had where you would have to...
What say I paint it black, throw on a set a big ass lake pipes, and call it th FatMobile.....da na na na naaaa na FAT MAN
LOVE that diesel Monte!!! A guy I went to school with had an '84 Monte with the 350 diesel. Believe it not, he never had any major problems with...
I've heard that that the DOT is going after mainly commercial truckers for road tax evasion or some such nonsense. Here in NY (the Liberal...
More than likely, I'd pull the tranny also, to gain the benefit of overdrive. Diesels do NOT like high revs, so overdrive would probably be a good...
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