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I used later model Crown Vic 15" steel wheels on my ex's '59 Country Sedan. Some have nubs for dog dish caps, some do not. Also, from '79 to...
Looking closer at your details, the LEFT quarter window (seen through the inside) is over a foot longer than the right one (facing the viewer)....
I have always had to use an oxyacetylene torch to remove the top bolts with right around 95% success. The holes can be drilled and helicoiled but...
Looking for the grille from a 55-57 Viking truck.
Wound up losing my job not long after posting that and have had to put the poor truck on the back burner... Till now. She's getting yanked back...
I have my '55 Chevy truck, and it is the same one that gave me that dream in 1985 as a ten year old kid climbing all over the neat old truck Dad...
I was thinking the same thing. I've been tempted to put a GMC grille in mine (although I always have preferred the smoother hood of a Chevy)....
After seeing that I can't wait to see what I find in mine. No real bad rot but I need new on the right side due to an Eldorado owned by an idiot...
I was too late to be there (born in '74) but I do remember a lot of holdouts in Southern California's South Bay area growing up in the early to...
Glad to see this thread is still alive! My 55 is getting its original 265 back, but slightly better than the last time they saw each other......
I got a set for my birthday a couple years ago and been havin a hell of a time finding the T-bolts for them. Staggered bolt pattern for my 265,...
http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/cto/2770536350.html Just one example... If I could I would.
Later Crown Victoria 15s have NO hubcap nubs, and could probably be adapted for use with your caps.
Chevy Venture minivans and their ilk use residual pressure valves, one in each rear hard line. The master is well above the rest of the hydraulic...
V8 truck VINs begin with a V. Six cylinder trucks do not have that first character and thus have shorter VINs.
A front suspension and engine swap on my 55 has a bare rolling frame sittin next to a stripped, bare metal cab and a pile of bed parts...
YO Prolong did one in the mid 90s with an LA318 too, dumping sand in it then pulling the pan after running it & scraping the mud out then...
Thanks! She's a long way off but gettin there. Plans are to have her at least roadworthy, ugly or not, in time for Road Rocket Rumble 2013. She...
Worst of it for me is under the gas tank. 56 years of shit accumulated underneath the tank and the metal's gettin thin with a few see-through...
Looking great! Seeing all the trucks here has got me ready to finish my frame & suspension, fix the major rot (thankfully not much, my truck spent...
With the stock 265 V8 and mounts mine put the passenger side valve cover so close to the firewall it got tricky when I installed my Corvette valve...
Didn't think of that. I replaced a leaking fuel pump the first week I had it.
It never went away once warmed up, and the engine would spin to 5000+ before the cheap chain-store points would float (I was never kind to it)......
Still scratchin my head tryin to figure out the knock in my '55 265, the original engine in my truck. It was rebuilt sometime before my dad bought...
ANY 55 or 56 DeSoto.
If it's about looks you're screwed... They're both insanely good lookin engines. The 348 has the edge in the "different" department - go count how...
Thank you for the idea! I was startin to dread that part of the Pontiac 389 install on the 55. Not anymore!
'61-62 Chryslers.
Last swap I made was a set of Cal Custom staggered bolt pattern SBC valve covers (purchased for my 55) I gave $40 for... I was walkin off with em...
Shamrock is a family "joke" as my grandparents stayed there one night on their move from Columbus, OH to Los Angeles. Their story is that the town...
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