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Curios if anyone has tried using a Corvair steering box with the modifications that seem to be fairly common when using F-1 boxes in '32 frames...
How big a show case would it take to hold $300,000 worth of trophies? You wouldn't need a trailer and for that much money I bet you could get a...
The tops that I remember were ugly, they had a thick roll above the windshield. Or maybe it was just a bad dream.
If I owned the Magic Muffler car, I would use the famous picture of it as my avitar.
If you ship as a core it should be cheaper. "Used auto parts for salvage only" class 70, I believe.
Two things, I used tie rod ends like those years ago to clear the radius rods on a t bucket and if I remember they were early 50's Ford. I took...
Fwiw--- I talked to a very reputable reproduction importer at Pate a year ago. He told me that he imported large quantities of repo pieces and...
I'll tell you when I get the next one stud free.
Soaked all 48 studs with PB Blaster and drove to Harbor Freight. Bought their $7.00 stud remover and drove home. Put impact to stud remover and...
Back when I had a job selling heavy duty truck parts we often competed against parts that said "made in America" that were manufactured in South...
Couldn't believe my eyes, really junkie angle iron trailer at the scrap yard had a '32 heavy axle and an unsplit wishbone under it. Paid $43.00...
Isn't there some connection to the Thunderbolt program with them?
I found rebuilt backing plate assemblies with new drums and all new parts from one of the Bronco restorer sites for less money than the parts were...
Like the guy with the little weenie told the prostitute when she asked him who he was going to satisfy with that little thing, he replied, "Me".
What he said.
Don't know if he really said it or not, but my favorite Smokey quote is, "Want to be different? Wear your pants on your head and race on...
Which flywheel with 59AB block and 8CM crank?
I am under the impression that the old hydros were pretty much small Allisons. Talk to an Allison rebuilding shop. My .02.
4.3 is a 350 with 2 cylinders missing from middle. Also missing center main feeding oil gallie which makes, as Txturbo says, frequent oil change...
Can you make liquid from dry and get the same results?
And the American Hot Rodder said, "I want to build something different". I love it, didn't think so at first but wow. Great workmanship and...
I'm an old guy but an even older guy once told me that they built their hair pins out of junkyard Ford steering gear shafts. He said it was really...
"Gettin scratch" was cool but "Boilin the hydes" was awesome.
Really a nice piece and I totally agree with your plans. Only thing wrong is your statement about only '32 project. '32 are very addicting and...
Put a piece of wood dowel that has a rounded end on it in a drill press. Slowly keep pressing the dent out with the drill press and a block of...
Great pics and a good variety of cars.
Okies and Arkies aren't above learning by others experiences.
And not good enough for her.
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