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what to do if your house only has cold water? put in a "hot-water heater"!
cheap 50% power increase!
late '60's, as i recall. uses a light to fire (laser, maybe?), thus the name, "beady eye"!
i was in the army with a southern guy who talked about his camaro with a "scoop" on the back. turns out he was talking about a spoiler!
one thing about that cam is the 108* lobe separation. good for drag racing, bad for vacuum.
i was chatting with a guy who drove a '50 merc with a pontiac engine, and i happened to mention i was working on a flathead. he said, "oh...you...
i gave up on "hot rod" a few years back. it was too high-buck. once upon a time that magazine catered to shade-tree mechanics!
wonder if it really is a barris car. decades ago, there was a local fella who made copies of the barris crest and was selling them. george was NOT...
i did see that photo on fb, and thought it might be one of tommy ivo's cars!
kinda figured that happened. i know they had an ownership change not that long ago, and i haven't gotten an issue for a while! hope it isn't gonna...
that's the ticket. wish i'd known about chevy valves when i put a 400jr in my '70s-era shoebox. had to gap the stock valves at .020 instead of...
i hear ya. i bought one from jc whitney decades ago and it's never failed me!
i think you're talking about one of those converters. i had one back in the day. worked great, but the way it works is you have to tune your am...
had that problem with a ford 6 once and was lucky enough to drill the bolt and run a tap...
even the "pros" goof it up. i bought a kingpin/bushing set at the local parts store (back in the '70s) and the "machinist" installed one bushing...
you mentioned lucas' sci-fi film; ever notice that milner's plates read THX-138?
had a scout leader who drove his surplus jeep to campouts. he installed an overdrive so it would go over 50 and put a wolf whistle on it. this was...
i've never worked on one, but i understand that there aren't a lot of technicians left that know how to adjust them. as a teen, that's one reason...
anyone remember comedian ernie kovacs? he drove a corvair wagon...
i was about 18 and paid $450 for this impala. it was gone when i got home from the army![ATTACH]
maybe this will help. it's from a swap manual from the mid-'60s. apparently you can do this with a 472 or 500![ATTACH]
i worked near a gas station that sold VP gas in two grades. loved watching the muscle cars come through on friday for their "fix"!
wayne arteaga's willys was the big gun in the st. louis area. i snapped this in the early '60s.[ATTACH]
what a pleasant surprise to see old boy scout buddy tom beringer speak a line in the movie: "IS THAT YOU, TOAD? WHAT A WASTE OF A GOOD MACHINE!"
i remember a piece in "rod & custom," where tex smith rescued an olds in wyoming that looked in about the same shape...
i turned 14 in 1962, so i really felt connected to AG. i first saw it at one of those "mini" cinemas, and it was a double-bill with an oldies...
i think dennis gage featured that one on "my classic car"? absolutely beautiful!
the picture idea is good. i needed a relay for my '50 ford's overdrive, and the local napa guy let me page through his catalog--settled on a...
maybe not everybody's cup of tea, but one of my favorites was an old aluminum army canteen that had been polished!
there's an post on this forum called "the ultimate T-5 swap article" that you might find helpful.
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