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Excellent video, thanks for posting. That motor looks like it's a Metropolitan Vickers or a BTH (British Thompson Houston) capacitor start...
Picked my new 4 banger crank this morning. Decided to make a few departures from the GM spec on the new one. This crank is Nitrided &...
Yes, quarter elliptic springs on the rear. transverse semi elliptic on the front. My avatar car is a 1932 Austin 7, the UK model that the American...
My avatar car has leaf springs all round and has Panhard bars on the front and rear. I fitted these over over 30 years ago. They really sharpened...
I've never got all the cars and/or projects in one photo, but... 1928 Chevy 4 banger touring, unusually a RHD model, as it was originally...
That looks hideous. I don't have one of these axles, but having seen cast axles advertised I assumed that they were made in a non-brittle material...
Really interesting video, thanks for posting. Here's a clip from the Austin factory in Longbridge UK from the 1930s. It shows the forging process...
This is Sue and I waiting for the ferry on a rod run to Belgium a few years ago [IMG]
Just made a donation. Met Gene at the UK NSRA Supernationals this year, here's a poor cellphone photo of a superb roofchop he was working on...
There's a lot of empty space on that hill that wasn't there when I last came over for fall Carlisle and Hershey in 2016. But I'm sure I'll be over...
Thanks for posting those interesting pics. Didn't make it over for Carlisle and Hershey this year. What motor did the American Austin racer have...
Here's the DIY setup I've been using for getting a good fit up for some parts my OT racecar. It's just a block of scrap Mild Steel bored on the...
I went to the Beaulieu Autojumble (i.e. Swapmeet) event in Hampshire a few weeks ago. Along with all the "usual suspect" parts and cars this...
#8 look like piloted spotfacers, useful in a lathe or a drill press for putting a flat machined surface around a drilled hole in an otherwise...
Great photos, and well done for managing to get some blue sky in the background of some of them. It's a shame that we got to "enjoy" some...
Before buying an aftermarket front axle it would be worth looking at later Chevrolet items. If your '26 Chevy is the same as my '28 Touring, the...
I heard that Edward Turner worked on the design of the Riley 9 motor, the first Riley pushrod Hemi Motor. Edward Turner also designed the Triumph...
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