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If you are going to " glue ", use "Lord Fusor" product. Many variations, an excellent product.
Yep! Rain or shine...hope for shine!
You best friend in a daily driver is the "GO" pedal....just get outta the idiots way!
Thanks for the input, people. I'll try to get pics tonight. We tried using the spring as the bottom bar and it was REALLY scary! figured out that...
I'm hoping someone can give some help with this. We've built a bobber truck with quarter elliptics front and back. Both ends have shackles and are...
40 years ago I had a cast-iron glide and hot 283 in my '34. The Texaco I worked for had a transmission guy that was known to be very good. He said...
Hell's bells- I'd give anything to spend another 10 minutes with my dad- he died 3 years ago. So enjoy your dad's coolness and creativity while...
The seat base looks like '60s Econoline.
Hmmmm. 125 on the speedo, me hanging over the back of the front seat, toes barely touching....those were the days! yikes! (it was a '50 Olds coupe...
Drove my '34 to work today- after scraping off two inches of snow and ice from the windows. A surprise spring storm, here in the high desert! Had...
First hot rod ride: 1932 Ford tudor, cycle and bobbed fenders, big cheater slicks, chopped- 6" windshield- 409, dual quad, 4 speed, wild paint, I...
About normal. I think most of them had either 4.57s or 4.88s. Just wind it until it blows and then change it out for something else.....like a 454....
Biggest mistake? Believing my friends when they say "It'll only be in here a few days.....". Not. Stupid stuff I've done? Too many to list....
Make it look like a 396, but have about 572 cubes, a set of Jackson tall stack injectors, B & J two speed, hang on! Need I say FULL ROLL CAGE?
Disconnect the fuel guage and radio. Lights? leave them off. Spin the motor until you get oil pressure. Fire it up!!
I bought a '41 Chev special Deluxe 4 door for $75 in 1971. Put a battery in it and drove it home. Fenders had lots of dents due to it being used...
Egge Machine did mine for the '32 Rockne. They're in your section of the woods.
Attend a Ron Covell workshop on wheeling.Then buy a box and pan brake, a shrinker-stretcher setup and a cheap english wheel and build what you...
I need someone to help my daughter bleed the rear brakes on her car- I'm 5 hours away and don't really want to drive 10 hours to bleed them- she...
V6? How about TWO V6s, chain coupler, in and out box, quickie......
When you get to Roseburg, look up Jack Watkins, "Native Rock" hauling owner. Heck of a nice guy, great painter. Tell him Jeff Hanan sent you....
for panel bonding I use a product called "Fusor". There are many types, one is a metal bonding mix. This stuff really works!
I'm down to seven.....felling kinda weak...better buy another one....
I remember tuning a six and having dad on the phone. He said "Number 4 isn't firing, check the cap". And it was, well, number four and a bad cap....
I was asking myslef the same question yesterday as the blood was running down my forhead because I forgot to duck far enough when working on my...
I still have it and drive it to work at least once a week- '34 Chev Standard tudor. Lucky me! I've owned it for 42 years now...or it's owned...
Miller Indy car!!
I have to ask- where did you find the '57 Dodge Custom Royale? There has to be a great story....
Third pic- if you can see the bottom of the stoplight, it's not chopped enough.
I forgot- if you are in the Tri-Cities area, get stuck and need help, call. Jeff, 509-554-1934. As for Tri-Cities HAMBers, Spudnuts, anyone?
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