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“Find a body” means start with a different frame or complete car. If you can take a rough ride then no problem. But I still would stay away from...
Once you start lifting the stock suspension, it will change the ride characteristics. It is going to be rough. Ball joint spacers let the front of...
Wasn’t Clyde a V8 ford man?
With that rear bumper, it looks like it might have been raced at one time
I was pretty young, maybe around mid 1950's, My dad and me went to a local track at a closed airport in Corpus Christi Texas. Cuddihy field old...
[ATTACH] bought a Lowe’s 80 gal, took 100.00 off for opening a charge and no interest for one year. Little noise but I can live with it.
That is very cool!!
That is an Awesome rig! If you had to have the choke out, I would think it is a fuel delivery problem. Fuel pressure?
Does it hesitate and die, or hesitate and then accelerate. Is the accelerator pump giving a good shot of fuel when the throttle is opened? Might...
Slots front, steel on back, ran my 57 Bird that way in late 68 thru 70 before got slots all around, car is light blue with off white top, so I...
Thanks, I’ll keep an eye out for it.
I was referring to the i was referring to the 1955 thunderbird in the background. Is it steel or glass reproduction ?
Is that going to be a early bird gasser? that would be very cool!
HRP, while you have your thinking hat on, is there a way to prevent this in the future?
Here is my Dad in 1949. his car is on top. Nice interior shot.[ATTACH]
I hope you took measurements so the window areas are correct. Otherwise looks like you have it covered. Good job.
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] I grew up with my Dad's roadster sitting beside the house, I was born in 1949 so I never saw him race that car but did him race...
Have you been to Barnes & Noble, book are doing fine, some are electronic, but your book could fit in that category.
When you are dealing with the loss of a parent, there is the other family members that try to help but may have made bad decisions with out her...
Gotta do what you gotta do. Hope you find a car you want.
[ATTACH] This one on local facebook/marketplace For Sale.
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Rebuilt rocker assembly’s are resurfaced, the rocket arm can wear in the middle and not give a true lash setting, check the rocker arms if they...
I always think of a drilled I beam or straight for gassers, but a wavey could be cool.
Your not going to win heads up with the car in your profile. Ask for a spot, if your car will run 15.00 and he runs 12.70, you need a 2.3 head...
That Coupe-Truck looks mighty lonely.
I though your car was very fair priced, but some think he is getting desperate and I can steel it. I don’t like that type of buyer, make me an...
Where is the sump on the oil pan, front or rear. Exhaust exit at rear of manifolds? Driver side is congested with steering box and crossmember....
You can move the dizzy one tooth and get the clearance you need.
If your a fabricator, the front axle can be flipped by welding spring pitches to the bottom of the axle. Tim McMaster Did it on his Land Speed truck.
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