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Have not been at the last few Ronnie meets because of various mechanical ills. Hope to make the next one once the throttle linkage gets...
Like the Cad. My learn-to-drive-car when I was 16 was a 54 Fleetwood...
I grew up in Castro Valley on Dolores st, but went to Hayward High. Welcome. I'm in Mountain View now, But I'm often at RPM Mufflers #2 on...
Excellent. Thanks very much for the story. That car was in my radar, I remember it well...
Hello from mountain view CA. I used to have a Red Ram in the garage. Sorry I sold it instead of making something for it...
My first rod (32 Vicky) took eight years, thought it was drivable in about four, The next one only took six years. I have to juggle work and...
I left an intersection 'briskly' in the roadster last year near Los Altos and was quickly pulled over. I wasn't speeding, but probably could have...
Here's how it wemt on my 32 roadster. The front mount is a little hard to see in this picture, but it's a tab about 4" wide that was welded to the...
Most of my passwords have displacement numbers as the key. For some obscure reason I think I'm more secure using the number I got after a bore/stroke.
Welcome from the Bay Area...
Welcome. My second house is in Tucson. I may make it permenent one of these days...
I go to as many different kinds of shows that I can. Occasionally I'll go to Concorso Italiano in Monterey in the '32. The drive takes you over...
Looks like a (53?) Studebaker behind the car when you picked it up?
Thanks for all your work on this!
"Im working on an idea for my fan shroud for my A right now..funny though how you see some pretty big muscle cars from the 60's without any...
Wow nice work. I'm not too good with wood either, and my dad taught the wood shop class at High School. So I did the interior of my roadster in...
Do you have pics of the frame?
Also a bad idea on fuel lines. I had a piece break off up stream of the fuel filter late last year and got caught in the float valve on the rear...
The body on this car is a shell only, no floor. The seats and interior sheet metal (and everything else) is secured to the frame. So if the body...
US Coast Guard, Engineman 3rd. 1964 to 1968 active. Relief Lightship Base St George, Stanton Island NY, USCG Matagorda, USCG Kukui (WAK 186), Sand...
At a car show last weekend in Burlingame CA, there was a 57 Bird with a cammer init. The guy who brought the car was the one who put in the motor,...
I have latch (not push button release) style Simpson belts in my Roadster. Four point for the passenger and five point for me, and both tied into...
Whooppsss. Many of my questions are answered above. I missed the earlier posts for some reason. Did you consider casting instead of the billet...
Do you have any drawings for the (very ambitious (we salute you)) project? You say push rods so it's at least an F head, or will it be an L head?...
You definatly have the style down. If it were me I think I add some gussets at the right angle where the rear part of the frame goes up, then...
My wife is from New Berlin. I'm a CA native bit we make it out once a year or so. Last Car show I went to was at Gus's Drive In in East Troy....
...In northern CA. I've been lurking for a while so I decided to make my presence known. I have two garage built 32s (except for the frames), and...
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