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"Back to the 50's" is a three day car show put on by the Minnesota Street Rod Association, and just celebrated it's 50th anniversary. Roughly...
Why not put a more aggressive cam in if your looking for more?
I'll be there, will be in my Father-in-laws '56 chevy 210
Indiana BMV let me keep the old title for my 56 just by asking. The agent made a photocopy for their records.
Very cool
I have family in MN, and all of them are car nuts. From visiting, it seems like the area is a hot pocket of hot rod activity. You just missed...
Sorry to hi-jack the thread here, but I've been wondering about this issue. I have a 1956 Chevy 3600 truck that originally had a 6 cylinder in...
If the top pick is your truck, I think I would clear over it, and powder coat the wheels black. I think that looks awesome as is.
I'm in Fishers, and and would be up for it.
I would start with a hood.
I always thought this was done by people with short garages, thus enabling them to have a classic car that otherwise wouldn't fit. It's the only...
I'm partial to this particular model (I'm working on a '56 3600). I think doing a frame swap kills any resale value. The first thing to do on...
Bad condenser in distributed? Many times bad ones work when cold, fail when hot. Use a timing light to make sure your getting spark. Check your...
Unless you are doing a fresh build with every component being new, I think it would be next to impossible to get all the water / old coolant out...
I have wondered how this would work: http://www.harborfreight.com/hydraulic-punch-driver-kit-96718.html It goes up to 2". I rented a Greenlee...
A 58 will have full pressure oiling, which makes it good. The original 53 motor would not have been full pressure oiling.
I think at $100 you could sell most of those motors. I'd pay $100 in a second for a rebuildable 283. I'd pay $500 for a flat head block with a...
I don't know the answer, but I'm about to paint some wheels as well, so I'm interested. Subscribed.
I'm assuming 55 2nd series, but I imaging the first series isn't much different. Around the headlight pocket, and the back bottom half of the...
I tried a number of ways suggested on my 56 chevy truck. I settled on plasma cutter to get started and pneumatic hammer to finish. I've taken...
I'm 28. When I was 22 I bought a 60 jeep cj5 with a Buick 231. Sold it to afford grad school. Now that I'm more established, for the past year...
Scrap vehicles were being bought at $260 / ton last weekend at the Indianapolis Pic-a-part.
http://chevy.oldcarmanualproject.com/shop/1955truck2/55ctsm0615.htm The above link describes the correct dimensions to check and torque values to...
Boys, I think we have been had.....but on the off chance this task has been done, I'm left asking myself "If he can't figure out a dictionary, how...
I use them often for this. Better than most of the other bolt-out bits.
I saw one today at the Indy world of wheels. Was a member of a local Corvair club.
Its Chinese new year....must be their vacation. (I did buy a Helix IFS, and it's good stuff, but it is chinese).
When pulling my 235 I wrapped one chain around the exhaust manifold. I found 2 empty bolt holes on the opposite side near the front. I pulled...
For the V8s, '56 only was red. 55 and 57 were orange. 6 cylinders were blue. Truck 6 cylinders had a grayish blue.
Works great here!
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