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Stock shoebox rings welded on....
Ford Shoebox Stock roof ...... and same car Chopped 5" frt-6"-rear /I also shortened roof skin's length 5-1/2" with the window laydown..........
This is an OLD post, but a good question nonetheless....I use Bicycle brake cables a lot, some of the higher quality ones are great pull cables...
When I was a kid I worked a year in an appliance factory and the plating line was one place I worked. They had a rubberlike substance on the racks...
You are probably gonna do what you want here, but seriously I think the striker needs to be in the jamb as that is the more reinforced pillar and...
Down,so they wont "show" through carpet,and a small drain hole on the ends is a good idea as well....
Thanks to the Gods he saw the light......build a tube perimeter chassis in a weekend and install that 32 cab and roll!
Hello Don, You probably won't believe me in my reply to your post, but here goes..... As some may know ,I do that[TOPCHOPS] for a living and...
All about setting lower.....
I think the situation is this,when they are"done" they burn slightly in the inner electrode tip resulting in additional clearance between the...
You two kids have a nice time Bob and get to bed before ten.......Kenny
At the time all there engines were overbores with surfaced heads mainly and had a bit more punch as a result....if you want an all new engine a...
Have not used that aspect of their products,but have bought a few engines they rebuilt....Good stuff at a decent price.... last one I bought I...
Here is a mild chop hardtopped '40 sedan,I did the concept for/how to instructions for a customer of mine a few years back,have to excuse the:eek:...
A pro like Don sometimes gets too many calls in a day to maintain a level of "civilty".......We in the auto trades and as humans sometimes get a...
Hmmm not familiar with that reducer.....
Thin your color and your primer 10 percent with Laquer thinner,forget the thinner made for it its slower than hell and leaves it...
Yeah Jay is no longer with us, but he was an author of note, and his writings here were the stuff of Hamb Legend.......sometimes folks do remember...
I was not asking about the quarter glass Jer, but instead the REAR [curved] glass.....Kenny
Hey Jer, concerning the rear glass..... Are you gonna tape mount the whole uncut [curved]rear glass on the inside and trim it out the size of...
a MII frt end can be narrowed 2" and still use a stock rack....this is the right width and allows for at least 7" frt rims with orig sheet metal...
Id check production numbers on that car, seems like I don't remember seein many of em...
Not everything needs chopped..... That is a more NeoClassic that a hot rod and taildragger Kustom guys woud more than likely want a stock roof...
readin the Obits and seeing folks ya know in em and who are also younger than you wakes a guy up a bit= Ive sold three of my dozen projects this...
Numbers are on the TOP of driver side frame rail at the rear of door line and between firewall and steering box and sometimes even at the rear...
While you are deciding that not chopping it makes sense.Id suggest not taking that body off the frame either...... Ive seen a lot of cars end up...
Its no longer 1976,things have came up......
You just cut the purple "starter" wire[start term on sw to inside term on starter] and hook each end to that shifter switch.....
There are two opposite ends of the universe in life's game...... A KNOWING woman..... And an UNKNOWING buyer.
I think the Restorers and all those who think "nothing should be changed" improves an old car's looks,should eat mothballs and stay the fuck off...
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