The Jalopy Journal
SWEET... now are all the nice rides going to be found in Sweden?
A Lakes roadster sure... but a pick up with 2.3L you'd have to keep it at 4,000+RPM all the time to have enough torque to move it You are not...
There is a lot you can do with the Poncho frame. it is already independent front susp, not like a Ford beam axle. With some fab work you can...
It is a 700R and is perfectly serviceable BUT you do have to hook up the TV and the torque converter lock up they are designed for it to lock and...
My Old Man always called them Coffin Nose Cords a local guy drove one around town. He had fit a Mercury backwards. A neighbor has one now along...
Talk to your estate lawyer donation to the right museum could have pretty good tax implications..Worth a call beautiful collection
for a couple of small welds the is always a local mobile welder who will probably be $50 minimum charge...see if one is around
Even Zora the master had problems with HIS Ardun heads. Look up the last series of Talbot Lago, Zora was the last importer of Talbot Lago to the...
For grins check out www.libertysidecars.com they build a Morgan knock off with Harley power pretty cool. $40K
With the length of the the Olds engine you have a blank page, maybe a Buick overhed inline 8 with open pipes and 4 DCOE sidedraft Webers. tons of...
lots of linkage to install with the manual clutch shift etc even if the old stuff is still under the dash making it work takes some figuring....
413's reallly diggin' in...The Beach Boys....even at free to rebuild a 413 is gone to cost at least $2-$3K and that is you doing a lot of the...
Stick shift left in third, no parking brake, steep road, I grew up in LA and some realllly steep hills there. Leave that manual in a high gear, as...
The guys at Wood N Carr are a'holes..sorry I've built several woodys and stopped at their shop in Signal Hill and was treated very rudely. Contact...
The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn is one of the great museums in the world. The Peterson in LA is incredible and the NHRA in Pomona CA Happy...
WOW I love the straight 8 on open pipes and multi carbs, must be an internal combustion Hammond B3...those finned Buford finned brake drums with...
If that is your shop the top should be a piece of cake. No different from doing a Carson top. Reinforce the daylights out of the "B" pillar and...
Back in the 70's running around the streets of LA was a '55 or '56 Chevy with an Allison versoin of the Rolls Royce Merlin. Nose bleeder with an...
Customers who are going to quibble over a $500 upgrade are gone to nickel and dime you to either death or crazieness. Do what you want, I have...
Harry Warner and Wayne Horning (went to school with his and Barney Navarrs's sons) had a biz in Glendale Ca then split up. Wayne went up to La...
Call Coker ask to speak to Corky, you just might. There are porbably not any others newer in their wharehouse. Run them...or be ready to spend a...
www.libertysidecars.com here in Seattle makes a very cool Morgan styled minicar with Harley V-Twin power
Man what a group! Gene Winfield, Racer Brown, Alex Xydias, don't forger that Doane Spence was a Glendale guy as was Barney Navarro, Kong Jackson,...
Maybe the original post is re the 337 flat motor that came in Ford trucks and Lincoln Cosmopolitans...could be considered the flathead big block...
That work would never get past "tech inspection" at any track and is a gernade withthe pin pulled. When i was a pup (1968) I bought a T Bucket...
There is a Canadian Pontiac Sedan Delevery rolling around Seattle and is at all Goodguys every year keep looking and good luck
The Cosmo is so cool as it has factory frenched head and tail lights, I liked the big flatty plenty of motor add a Pertronics and headers a better...
Having done exactly one fire car over the years my thoughts are never again, but you have a great car at a rough starting place. get it media...
The engine in a Cosmo is different from most flattys, it is the bigger truck engine, you may not have as many options as with 59A or 8BA engines....
Saw your car in Rodder's Journal and with Gene Winfield conncetion is a real pedigree. I love it
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