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Lots of good suggestions here! One of todays BIG problems is GAS. If you buy a gallon of todays gas and put it in a glass jug and sit it in your...
I LOVE '57 Customs and Custom 300s! I have had about 20 of them in the past 5 years or so and have a 300 that will coming up for sale for about...
I suppose EVERYONE viewing this thread knows of the movie "Worlds Fastest Indian" but just in case you don't.....GET IT! I built a replica of A...
I haven't looked at all 110 pages yet, but if anyone is interested, I am going to put this sign up for sale soon. T.Kitchen
I did the '62 Ford Galaxie "Starlifter" using a '60 Starliner roof. As I have stated before, the rest of the '60 was soooooo bad (RUST)it could...
These are the General Jumbo wheels available in 1934. The 15" wheels spokes came chromed. Wide (about 7") tires were available also.
Hate the skirts, but LOVE the 15" GENERAL JUMBO wheels like on this car and available in 1934! Had a NOS set with caps in the '70s.
Reminded me of one of my "finds". Back in the early '70s I owned a nice '34 Victoria and knew of another in a barn that was complete but in need...
Many many guys had problems of the 390/406s "shutting down" like a fouled gas tank or line or bad pump,etc.,etc. with the AUs & AVs Holley Carbs....
A guy my friend knows bought a '40 Ford Convert at an Estate sale from barn of old cars in Ga. about 6 years ago and back in the top well were 12...
Love the old EMFs (Every Morning Fixit). Will keep my eyes peeled. Tom
I remember way back in '62 when I sold my '57 Chevy 150 with a rebuilt Corvette motor for $500. About 3 months later the guy that bought it called...
Lets keep this going BTT!!
At the shop where I do work on my cars Teddy put a Cammer motor I had in an ORIGINAL-Black '57 Ford Custom that was at the Moonshine festival a...
I have owned 3 Cammer cars in my life and am always looking for more. My all-time favorite is one pulled from a barn that was in a '67 7-Litre,...
Sorry guys, but drag racing and cops in an Orange grove all the time and hearing "Johnny" at least 100+ times drove me nuts. Also finding a '32...
No chokes on my old set-up but had to cut fuel pressure down to 2lbs to work due to the common problem with Strongbergs "flooding out" or valve...
A HAMBer was asking about '56 Fords....here is one!
Hi Faith, Very good movie, but being from that era and owning THOUSANDS of old cars I would like to offer some constructive criticisms that you...
Thanks for all the reply for my FREE '57 Mercury parts listed above. They are promised to a HAMBER in Cincinnati, Ohio. This is what the HAMB is...
Sorry, my '57 Merc was a Montclair, NOT a Monterey, and people also told me that all Montclairs came with Quad headlights, but I never saw that...
Different states did outlaw quad headlights in '57 and others required them. In one of my 1957 Mercury Factory brochures, it shows the quad lights...
Glad to hear it made it OK. The driver of the transport truck was flagged down by someone? that said he ran against Fred Lorenzen and that car and...
I'm almost 70 and grew up in Dayton when EVERYONE cruised the Hasty-Tasty, Parkmores, Johnsons, Big-Boys, Hydes and on and on. Did you know that...
Well, you lucky Texas guys get to see the Starlifter before long as I sold it and its on its way to the Fort Worth area. I had it at Moultrie, GA....
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I always thought the '60s and '61s roofs were the same, but I cut my roof off of a '60 Starliner and assumed I needed a '61 rear glass as the '60...
Paxton and McCulloch were the same company. Yours has the McCulloch shape but is a Paxton? Check out THE AUTHORITY on ALL of them, its a guy in...
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