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Well, howdy y'all. I'm having a bit of a conundrum. The camshaft in my good ole lo-po Pontiac is still good but I've got a couple lifters that...
I've dusted off my calculator, made some tape measure measurements and drew a bunch of triangles on a sheet of paper. Using a standard 22.5°...
Here's a question for y'all. [ATTACH] I've got some chromed pot-metal pieces, like this handle, which have gone bad and to pits in the surface...
I wanted a new desk clock but nothing that was for sale really fit the bill well. [ATTACH] So, I made me this. I wanted it to look like it...
I've done a bit of looking about but can't decide what route to go down to put a rear speaker on the shelf behind the back seat of the car. Radio...
[ATTACH] This picture popped up elsewhere in my travels, anyone recognize it? Phil
[ATTACH] Picked this up at a garage sale today. It's missing a few pieces so I think that makes it a good candidate for modification. What...
I started reading some other threads on here, and it got me thinking again about the performance of my L-head straight-eight. Yeah, sure- spend...
Hands up, who had a transistor radio you carried around for entertainment? Well, my old man was no exception. He bought this 1959 model Standard...
Being as I did the '33 Zenith, I'll post up what I'm doing with the radio set here. The car has been converted to 12 Volts from 6; I decided to...
I enjoy fixing things. Yup. A few people I know have gotten wind that I fix old electronic junk and through the years I've had my hands on some...
Evening, all. Here's the backstory that introduces my car, a (very) mild custom 1951 Pontiac Chieftain Deluxe. Back this time last year my wife...
Howdy! I'm Phil, an import to South-Eastern Louisiana from the UK just over a decade ago. I have a (very mild) custom '51 Pontiac Chieftain...
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