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If there are 8 bumps on the top of each valve cover, poking out, that means it has the right valve covers for a solid lifter, hottie motor. The...
1956 Chrysler 354 - Optional engine was rated 355HP
For what it's worth; there was a die-cast D-500 emblem mounted on the trunk lids of at least some 57's. Is a solid lifter or hydraulic lifter...
I am not sure what this would accomplish. Let's look at my history for example. So far, I have posted a few WTB classifieds and no FS classifieds...
I took a Purolator from the box a couple months ago. It had metal shavings (left over from the manufacturing process) clinging to the threaded...
20 years ago was "BC", (before children): 1956 Chrysler "300 B" (ultra-rare stick shift) 1966 Corvette 427 Coupe 1977 MGB (wifes car) 1978 Jaguar XJS
I used to think the same way. I hated the roof on the hardtops so I bought a convertible. Now I like the hardtops better!! Sometimes it is really...
Very nicely done. No car needs to be chopped more than a 41 to 48 Ford coupe. No car looks better when it is artfully done. And no car looks worse...
I like that explanation (excuse)! I have got to remember that. I can use that.
My first car was a 1950 mercury 2dr. I was about 15 years old. It was a little rusty, but not bad by todays standards. I paid $15 for it! I...
I don't. I never finish a car. A few months after I buy one, I start looking for the next. I have been driving "unfinished", primered, no...
My pet peeve is sellers who provide poor quality, non-detailed, useless pictures or none at all. If you are advertising to a national market, you...
I remember that car. It set the standard for me. Where is it today?
I hope I am not offending anyone you know, but how clueless would you need to be to saw up that car? Nice rescue!
Give a Farmers agent a shot. I have 3 collectable pre-70 cars insured, all on "regular" policies (and have for about 30 years!). My agent assures...
No pics, but you are thinking right. The rear wheel opening on a 55 Chev is ugly and does not suggest "Hot Rod". The 2 most important things you...
[IMG] Craig Jackson is THE DEVIL [IMG] .....Credit to 296 V8
My daily driver is a 61 T-Bird convertible (no pics). My 17 year old daughter drives this 66 Riviera.
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The mockup looks awesome. I love the look of that 38 hood/nose. You may be a genius, a regular Michaelangelo of hotrodding!
Mike: I had one from 68 through 79. My father and and I put a sbc in it and I drove it to high school and college. My brother drove it after that...
Buy one of the Chevrolets and give me the number for the Plymouth! Seriously its the Plymouth, hands down. Look real hard at that front wheel /...
A 66 300 could have either a 383 or a 440. It only came with 727 torqueflight. A 383/440 mopar is more modern and much more easily maintained...
You are right. I forgot about the 57 Olds AND BUICK 2dr sedans. They also share the hardtop good looks. The 55 and 56 Buick and Olds post sedans...
Yes, that is the one I am thinking of. Very Nice! Thank you for the illustration. Did you ever see the old movie Thunder Road? It is worth...
Question for 57 Ford experts, or auto stylists: Why do 57 ford 2 dr post sedans look so good? It is my opinon that they look at least as good as...
Good examples. I apologise in advance to anyone who this may offend; but these were goofy in 1966, goofy in 1976 and are still goofy in 2006....
Exactly, they didn't look like 4x4's back then because the 4x4 crowd had not (yet) thought to do something so disfunctional or counterproductive....
1957/1958 Chrysler 300. I had one; gave it away. What an idiot.
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