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just a heads up.... This car is listed on several classic car for sale sites online, Main one being ACC, All Classic cars. com it supposedly...
If a Buick grill is a consideration... you can always go a different year... This Grill fits with NO modification. Fits under the stock Ford upper...
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In my life as an Auto Mechanic (not a parts replacer) which started about 1970, I was working in an Auto Center in Southern California, San Diego,...
Actually the man that I was building it for and with died about 3 years ago, truck was sold to a man in Portland, have no idea where it is now.
this is what a real one looks like..... moved back of panel to front, chopped 6", sectioned 3"
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I can add thru experience that Art Morrison will build you an EXCELLENT frame specifically for this model and make it go as low as you want it to...
coupe body is sold
HOOD HAS BEEN SOLD
Keep it under your hat, there are some that would take a semi and buy everything that was worth anything , take it home and sit on it for years...
a little long, but old-timers will know...
T bird I built for Son In Law, also was the intro car for the A&E program called "Bad Ink" pic with Gene was a few years in the past at one of...
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I painted that car and scalloped it back before I sold it then had it pinstriped at a Diamond Lake Custom Run back about 1994, It DIUD say...
'56 Packard clipper taillight lenses, I really like them, Have put them in several of my builds,
Yes, Sonny was the man that I sold the car to, he put a "Watson" side badge on it and claimed it was a lost ISCA show car from the 50's... never...
Originally I had found a pair of 57 Lincoln rear half qtrs, welded them on but was unable to find lenses, so I bought a pair of 56 Packard...
It was originally a 1952 ford that I put a Caprice front clip on, after I had run it a bit a friend sold me a complete front clip off a Mercury,...
As far as I know, California will not do that, stopped doing that Looooooong ago. something to do with Stalkers, and Privacy. Only people I...
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can anyone tell me where the 52 ford is?, I have been looking for that car for over 10 years. Maybe who the owner is? Pictured below
IMO,... what I find quasi interesting is that in Almost all of the factory advertisements, the pictured auto is substantially lower than the...
No Hood Hot Rod.. whitewalls, beauty rings and red wheels, Hot Rod engine, LOUD, [ATTACH] As traditional as you can get.
I'd cut this up without a forethought, but fiberglass makes ya kinda itchy, this is a kit car, VW front suspension
As things go it SEEMS to be working out.. but I always find a snake lurking in the woodpile,... So... I bought a turbo 400 off a (I believe)64...
Thanks guys, I have learned a few things today. This motor is a 1959, 401 engine according to the casting number and the code on front of the...
I recently acquired a very good running '60 401 Nailhead. it was in an OT vehicle with a 3 speed Ford manual trans behind it. I do NOT want to...
hopefully someone that knew the car might recognize it and be able to tell me why it is in such Fantastic condition. there were a lot of things...
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