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I used to use panhard bars or trianglulated four bar but if I have the room I use a Watts links as the seat of my pants say it works better....
I found out West of here yesterday a T-Bucket body on CL for $100 needless to say as quick as I could I got the money together and went and...
The tire shop I used a lot used bead they looked Waxie to me put one pouch in each tire on the back of my tow truck a 1995 Medium duty...
I did it to a Kelmark type GT-40 type body using a 500CID Caddy a couple of times we used the stock suspension and took the torsion bar off and...
Back when I used to work for Daves Speed Shop in RC SD we used to think nothing of putting one behind 650 and do almost nothing to them. We used...
One more pic I got earlier today:cool:
I went out andd bought me one of them thar Binks #7 guns payed a couple of weeks pay for it when i got it. used it for a while and got good with...
I guy I met a couple of days ago has this roadster back half and I have the cowl so I am thinking I might see if I could make up the rest of the...
My Grandparents phone number when they first got it was 37 a year or so later it was 337 and a few years later it was 4337 I can remember when...
I had a 58 model year titled as 57 as it was a Chevy it sound good in the paper as the owner listed it as a 57 and no one would buy it. Once they...
my suggestion is if you want to run that as is, use a pressure bonnet with a blow off port large enough to keep the intake side at about 7 to 9...
Well red won the day because I did not have to go get the paint as I already had it and it was free when I got it:cool:
Henry Ford is the guy who came up with the alloy that make springs just by heating them up and letting them cool down on there own but in the...
I have made a couple of English Wheels before but most had something I did not like about them. so this one I made mostly to use around small...
I have a 430 T bird and have had 352 ones in the past from what I remember not much interchanges is there a chance you can find a 390 410 427 or...
the biggest problem of using front steer is getting the Ackerman angle correct as it is nearly almost out to the tire and it limits the size of...
I have a friend who's next door neibor restores Biucks he said it is worth about $125 in it's current condition with the gril and the panel...
I have been building t buckets rods and rock crawlers for years I have used a Sami steering box several times on things other than Zuks and used...
The first time i worked with Make A Wish was in the late seventys for a young man who wanted to do Parada Del Sol in his truck a 1955 F-100 with...
I do both body work and mechanical work I only work on only pre-computer cars I would put on the phoenlic spacer minimium 3/8 to max of 1" as it...
Wow four minutes of my life wasted
I use quater elliptic springs on my T buckets and I just use an end mill of what ever size i want it to be at about 640 rpms and cuts like butter...
It looks like it can be unbolted in the middle it has a small steel plate top and bottom in the center with two bolts in them.
I bought a Lincoln Cosmopolitan a couple of weeks ago and this grill came with it I am considering putting it on EGAY but I would like the...
I used a 71 and 73 so far also still drive my 74 T-bird as a DD that I bought to use as a donor. Yes new timing gears will wake them up trannys...
I don't know maybe it was a Cosmopolitan Capri what I remeber most is it was almost a Merc only cooler looking with a better engine and an...
I strarted my career of Alternative engineering with a Sunbeam Imp my Dad let me drive when I was 15 or so I broke the half shat coupling a rubber...
The guy I work for paid $62k for his red convertable at Barrett-Jackson a couple of years ago he does not drive it I do (I love my job) Kevin :cool:
The one I had was badged Lincoln Capri it was a 1949 with the three piece rear window the body was almost excatly like a buddy of mines 49 Merc...
I used to hasve a Baby Lincoln (Capri) but it was stolen the night of my oldest Daughters wedding from my storage yard so I have been looking for...
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